A Freak Ear of Corn 



This carious seed cluster was developed in the course of 

 the hybridizing experiments with teosinte and corn. Doubtless 

 it tells the story — did we only know how to read it — of some ances- 

 tral strain in which the seeds grow in a rounded cluster, little 

 suggestive of the long ear that characterizes the modern 

 product. Bui the kernels of this freak ear have 

 after all a good deal of the corn quality. 



