THREE PIONEERSHIPS 



Usually when we put by corn for seed we 

 simply pick out good-looking ears. We do 

 not scientifically look into the business of 

 planting or sowing our lands with choice 

 seed. Yet some of the most remarkable 

 agricultural results ever obtained came in 

 that way. In certain parts of the country 

 the business of breeding corn for seed has 

 become a great one. It is destined to be as 

 important as the breeding of stock. 



A gentleman who has made a practice of 

 breeding seed corn was lately in the pres- 

 ence of a number of other gentlemen exam- 

 ining some corn. He picked out two ears 

 that almost all would have said were alike. 

 They were of equal length and size, and as 

 held up in the hand seemed not unlike in 

 weight. Any man not an expert would have 

 called one as good as the other, yet when 

 those were shelled, one yielded almost 

 double the corn that came off the other. 

 Which are you going to use for seeding? 

 Obviously the ear that runs to corn and not 

 the one whose tendency is to cob. 



There is the utmost difference in the size 



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