g2 MAIZE 



CHAP, one days. This is partly due to variation in the character or 



IV ' composition of the soil within a few feet of surface area ; 



partly, perhaps, to variation in vigour between the individual 



plants ; and perhaps largely to the occurrence of different 



Fig. 39. — Blind ear, on which the silks have failed to develop. 



strains in an ordinary commercial breed ; a well-bred strain 

 may be expected to show greater uniformity in time of 

 flowering. Yet there seems to be a definite relation between 

 the time of flowering and the time of ripening. 



