26 BROOM-CORN CULTURE 
A corn germinator or a cigar box filled with sand 
will serve equally as well for testing the seed. Fill 
the box to within one inch of the top with moist sand 
and distribute the 100 seeds uniformly over the sur- 
face of the sand. Cover the seed to a depth of one- 
half inch with a layer of moist sand, keep moist, 
and at the end of Io or 12 days count the number of 
plants growing up from the sand. The sand box 
method is to be preferred, since the conditions ob- 
tained are more nearly like the field than those 
secured by the use of the cloth and the plates. 
