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germination test of 94 per cent. Among the best dealers, this will 

 have a tendency to induce them to adopt better methods of storage 

 and a definite s_ystem of testing each ear sent out. It will, in fact, put 

 the business of breeding seed corn on a scientific and legitimate basis, 

 More corn is shipped in the ear now than ever before. ]\Iuch of it 

 is still shelled, especially with the seed companies. Crates containing 

 one bushel each of ear corn are now used b_y all retailers of seed corn. 

 An attractive crate with the sender's name in a conspicuous place 

 creates interest where^•er it goes. A station agent will be much less 

 liable to allow a slatted crate of corn to remain on the platform in a 

 storm, than he Avould were the corn in a closed box. Mice are less 

 liable to hide in a conspicuous place, such as between the ears of an 

 open crate. 



HAND PICKING SHELLED SEEDCORN. 

 Tlie corn is carried over a belt. 



