or 



ear from a crib may have bee* good because the stalk 

 grew under especially favorable conditions. It may have 

 grown alone, when most of the plants grew in hilK or it 

 may have grown on richer > 



With any of those methods of selection, we know only 

 half the parentage. The pollen to fertiliie the gsxxi ear 

 may have tome from stalks with very poor ears. It is 

 M<*s*ar>\ therefore* to test the viewing power. 



The selected ears shoukl be kepi in a dry, moderately 

 pia<* during the winter, as f reeling hurts the embryo 



when they are nwfet (pa^e 54). In the spring* a 



tion tt b made as a farther Section (pn^e 48), 



all ears that do not $erminate ali of the six kernel tested; 



also discard tho^ that produce weak sprouts, 



Suppo^ that twenty-five of the IMS! ears, all of per- 

 fect fserminatton, are now taken lor an ear-row test, the 

 temtining seed being used for regular field planting 

 SMI each of the twenty-five ears Into a paper bag bear- 

 ing tne number of the ear> Stiect a place in the regular 

 cornfield large ough for fif^r lolls square. Tne soil 

 should be uniform and of average tortffity. Plant lows 

 1 and 26 from ear 1; rows a and if from ear - 

 and 3ft from ear This giw two tank of each 



ear* so that sod dttferaMs will be allowed for. Half of 

 the seed of each ear is saved for next year's planting. 



After the corn is u i $ood practke to thin it to * 



uniform number of stalks per row. The com k cultivated 

 the same as the regular field. In the fall, husk each row 

 separately and measure tne yield. 



Such a test, conducted in 190? by Yale DeueL a fanner 



%ieMi^7e^ (The 



