CORN JUDGING 13 



sented in this manual. There is little doubt, however, 

 that the next step in advance in corn judging will be 

 the production of a separate standard for each race. 



From the fact that corn is affected by and responds to 

 climatic conditions, so that there is a difference in some 

 of the characteristics of a race grown in one state com- 

 pared with samples produced in another state, it has been 

 found advisable to adopt score cards for each state, 

 modified to take into account the differences which arise 

 from growing the races under different climatic and 

 soil conditions. These general score cards used in judg- 

 ing exhibits of corn in the different states are presented 

 in the following pages, but the general considerations 

 which must be taken into account in judging samples of 

 corn in any state are the same. In other words, the 

 principles of judging apply to all conditions and must 

 be thoroughly understood in order to judge corn success- 

 fully. 



On the judging table it is absolutely necessary to keep 

 this fact in mind, viz : that the judge is not only to com- 

 pare one sample with another, but each with the standard 

 separately and independently, in order that its individual 

 proper ranking may be determined. It is a good plan 

 to keep the scores of all of the different samples in any 

 one exhibit, laid out side by side, so that at any time a 

 comparison of scores may be easily made. It is advisable 

 in scoring any point in a sample to have the samples 

 previously judged so arranged that by a glance the mark- 

 ing given to that point in the samples already judged 

 can be seen and taken into consideration in determining 

 the score of the sample in hand on that point. 



The score cards and standards of perfection are useful 

 as guides to the careful study of the characteristics 

 of a sample of corn, consequently to the sample as a 

 whole. However, if the score cards are used in an 

 absolute mathematical sense, certain points which cannot 



