116 PRACTICAL CORN CULTURE 
the purpose of educating farmers and farmers’ boys to grow 
more prolific seed and to know how to select and care for it 
through the winter. To get the greatest benefit from these 
courses offered in corn judging, they should be supplemented 
by practical work in corn breeding on the farm. 
This chapter has been taken in the main from an article 
in the January 15th issue of the Prairie Farmer entitled 
‘Breeding Corn for Quality and Productiveness,’’ by Ralph 
M. Ainsworth. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
‘‘Ten Generations of Corn Breeding.’? By Louie H. Smith. 
Til. Agri. Ex. Sta. Bulletin No. 128. 
‘‘Inereased Yields of Corn from THybrid Seed.’? By G. N, 
Collins. U. 8. Dept. of Agri. 1910. 
‘“‘The Production of Good Seed Corn.’? By C. P. Hartley. 
U. 8. Farmers’ Bulletin No. 229. 
“The Study of Corn.’’ By Vernon MM. Shoesmith. 
