The Florists' Review 



August 1, 1912. 



still longer than those selected for 

 planting, and even longer than we 

 wished. We also find that diameter has 

 been sacrificed to length, and the ears 

 are out of proportion. 



Now, two consecutive seasons are 

 rarely alike, and different seasonal con- 

 ditions affect our corn in various ways. 

 During seasons of extreme moisture, 

 the plants with greater leaf surface 

 thrive and yield well, whereas the 

 plants with short, narrow leaves, and 

 therefore low leaf area, cannot exhale 

 the surplus water absorbed by the plant 

 through the roots. Its mineral food is 

 therefore deficient, and the plant suf- 

 fers. 



Caution in Abnormal Seasons. 



It follows that a high yielding row 

 in a wet year will be a low yielder be- 

 yond seasonal ratio in a dry season, 

 and vice versa. If one extreme of 

 moisture follows the opposite extreme, 

 we shall lose our reckoning entirely if 

 we draw our conclusions too hastily. 

 "We must be careful in our discarding 

 work during abnormal seasons. The 

 rows that do the best in a fairly normal 

 year are the ones to preserve. 



All the various characteristics of the 

 corn plant are amenable to this method 

 of breeding. Among these character- 

 istics are high or low leaf area, tall or 

 short stalk, high or low ear, and so 

 forth; also chemical content, such as 

 protein, oil, starch or sugar; all these 

 may be varied. But breeding to change 

 chemical content requires chemical anal- 

 ysis, which is expensive. Especially is 

 this true of sugar, which requires 

 analysis while in the edible condition, 

 at which time some skill and a great 

 deal of care must be exercised in secur- 

 ing samples which are in as near the 

 same condition of development as pos- 

 sible. There is no correlation between 

 the sugar contents in the edible state 

 and in the mature or dry state. 



Breeding for Yield Only. 



I was recently informed by one of 

 our most extensive breeders that he had 

 ceased to breed for chemical content, 

 and is now breeding for yield only — 

 where the money lies. 



A keen observer can, with a little 

 practice, distinguish between high and 

 low protein, and high and low oil corns, 

 sufficiently for simple breeding work, 

 without resorting to chemical analysis. 

 As about eighty-five per cent of the oil 

 is contained in the germ, it follows that 

 the larger the germ, the more oil the 

 kernel contains. And as the protein 

 is largely in the hard, horny portion, it 

 can easily be seen that the more of this 

 substance and the less of the floury, free 

 starch portion, the greater the percent- 

 age of protein. The difference will 

 readily be seen upon cutting different 

 kernels in sections. 



The Bate of Progress. 



Breed for one thing at a time; that 

 is the advice of all experienced breed- 

 ers. Nevertheless, definite progress clin 

 be made in breeding for both type and 

 yield, but the advancement will be 

 slower than when breeding for but one 

 thing. 



The ear-to-row method may seem 

 rather complex, and so it is, but it can 

 be simplified, even to the elimination of 

 the detasseling, but the less the work, 

 the slower and smaller the gain. 



The first year's work ought to ac- 

 count for an increase of from ten to 



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