VARIATION IN CORN 

 SEED 



Material has been found for most of 

 the corn experiments in variations as 

 to one quality or another that appear 

 among plants of the same species. It 

 may or may not be necessary to accen- 

 tuate variation by hybridizing experi- 

 ments. The range of variation that 

 may be shown in the seed of a single 

 species is illustrated in this lot of ker- 

 nels of corn, which show surprising 

 diversity in shape, size, and color. Num- 

 berless new varieties could be developed 

 through selective breeding from such a 

 lot of seed as this, not only as to form, 

 size, and color, but in productiveness, 

 quality, and every other desirable 

 character. 



