ILLUSTRATIONS 



Root Development . . . < . 

 Uniform Ears, Boone County White 

 Uniform Sample, Boone County White . 



Reid's Yellow Dent 



Length of Ear, Boone County White 

 Circumference of Ear, Boone County White 



Learning Corn 



Boone County White Corn . 



Shape of Ears, Boone County White 

 Kernel Indentation, Boone County White 

 Large, Medium and Small Cob, Boone County 

 Maturity, Boone County White . 

 Space Between Rows .... 

 Samples of Clover .... 

 Attractive Field of Cowpeas 

 Good Specimen Soy Bean Plant 



Corn Silk 



Effect of Inbreeding .... 

 Effect of Three Years' Inbreeding . 

 Effect of Four Years' Inbreeding 

 Young Ear of Corn Before Silking . 

 Pollen Grains on Silk .... 

 Testing Vitality of Seed Corn . 



Pollen Grains 



Proper and Improper Shapes of Kernel 

 Homemade Land Roller 



Direction of Rows of Kernels, Boone County 

 Corn Crib on Scales .... 

 Modern Corn Crib .... 



Corn Marker for Hand Planting 

 Homemade Corn Planter . 



Effects of Listing 



Root Development of Corn in Field . 

 Distribution of Hoops on Stave Silo 

 Construction of Studding Silo . 



Cheap Stave Silo 



Silo Attached to Barn .... 

 Low Wagon for Handling Silage Corn 

 Placing Bundles in Square and Round Silo 

 Filling the Silo 



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