SWEET CORN 



of the Individual seed Itself. Since this 

 question has been answered in reference 

 to sweet corn, the selection from the lower 

 ear has been abandoned, and selections from 

 that time on have been from the stalks 

 producing the largest number of ears. This 

 would be of interest to men engaged In 

 the selecting, to know that the number of 

 ears produced on a stalk can be Increased 

 somewhat by proper selection. 



If it is possible In the future to breed 

 a sweet corn that would produce three good 

 marketable ears of sweet corn to the stalk, 

 there would be a decided increase for the 

 market gardeners in the returns from an 

 acre of sweet corn. 



For many years It has been my custom 

 to select for planting a number of ears 

 having as many of the most desirable 

 characteristics as possible. As the main 

 point was to obtain extra early corn, it 

 was found that earliness is maintained only 

 by saving the earliest ears from the early 

 corn, and from these earliest ears a small 

 number, known as 'double extra," are set 



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