ON CORN 



with eighteen to twenty-two rows to the ear, mak- 

 ing it clear that by extending the experiments it 

 would be possible to fix a variety growing uni- 

 formly twenty-two rows of kernels. 



Other experiments have shown the feasibility 

 of changing the form of the kernels, making them 

 long, broad, and of uniform size. Attention has 

 also been paid to the production of corn that 

 would fill out all the kernels uniformly, instead 

 of producing a certain number of nubbins as corn 

 is prone to do. 



The size of the stalk and the number of ears 

 to the stalk are also matters that are subject to 

 easy modification through selection. I have re- 

 ferred in another connection to experiments of 

 others, in which the location of the ear on the stalk 

 was lowered or raised at will in a few generations, 

 and made to droop or stand erect as desired, 

 through selection. 



I myself have developed a race of corn with 

 gigantic stalks, in which the ears are borne so high 

 that a man of average height can barely reach 

 them from the ground. This was done for experi- 

 mental purposes, and not because a variety of this 

 kind would have commercial value. I have per- 

 sonally produced and introduced four distinct new 

 varieties of corn, including the two unique orna- 

 mental varieties, and two improved extra early 



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