CORN 153 



QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 



1. What is the relative importance of corn to other farm crops in your 

 county? Is most of the corn produced in your county fed or shipped 

 away ? 



2. To what points is corn shipped from your county? What use is 

 made of that which is shipped ? 



3. Prepare an outline map of the world and shade the areas of chief 

 corn production. 



4. Why is it not a good plan to grow sweet corn or pop corn near field 

 corn ? If pop corn which has been grown near field corn is planted, what 

 results may appear in the second year's crop of pop corn ? 



5. Under what conditions is fall plowing for corn better than spring 

 plowing ? 



6. What varieties of corn have proved best for your locality? 



7. Assuming an ordinary season, outline the procedure in the proper 

 preparation of the soil for planting corn, and the proper cultivation of the 

 crop until it matures. 



8. What characteristics of a good seed ear should one have in mind 

 when he goes into the field to select seed corn ? Why is it not better to 

 select seed corn at cribbing time, when the farmer may at a glance see a 

 large number of ears from which to select? 



9. Why is it important to test seed corn before planting? How may 

 this best be done ? 



10. What is the average yield of corn per acre in your county? in 

 the United States? What does your state experiment station regard as 

 the possible average acre-yield in your state under a general good system 

 of farming? 



11. When corn is planted forty-four inches apart each way, how many 

 hills are there to an acre? 



12. With three stalks to the hill, and 85 per cent of a stand, how many 

 stalks are there to an acre ? 



13. Assuming that each stalk bears an ear, and that each ear weighs 

 twelve ounces, what is the yield per acre ? 



14. Assuming that each stalk bore an ear, and that the yield was twenty- 

 five bushels more than the average of the United States, what was the 

 average size of the ear ? Have the students bring in an ear of this size to 

 be compared with one that is considered to be of the average size. 



15. Weigh the ear that is considered to be of average size for the 

 community, ascertain the average yield in the community, and compute 



