BREEDING AND CURING 



Thus far, three crosses have been provided 

 for, namely, (1) of a yellow sweet, (2) 

 black sweet, and (3) white starchy upon 

 the stock of white sweet corn. Names of 

 commercial sorts might be named for the 

 sweet white stock and the three breeders, 

 but it might only confuse instead of sim- 

 plify the statement. If one uses a yellow 

 starchy sort, a field flint (or dent) yellow, 

 for example, as a breeder, will there be 

 any danger of a mixture so serious that 

 separation is hopeless.^ In case of the 

 yellow, starchy breeder, there are two 

 dominants, one of color and the other of 

 texture, that will work upon the white 

 sugary stock, and each grain that is a cross 

 will be both starchy and yellow and there- 

 fore marked, as none others thus far con- 

 sidered, upon the ears of the stock plants. 

 The yellow carried by the sugary yellow 

 breeder makes no trouble, because all the 

 grains containing the parent are sugary 

 and therefore wrinkled — they are no more 

 difficult to separate than field yellow and 

 sweet yellow grains. 



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