ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Root Development Frontispiece 



Uniform Ears, Boone County White .... 3 



Uniform Sample, Boone County White . . . .11 



Reid's Yellow Dent 16 



Length of Ear, Boone County White .... 19 



Circumference of Ear, Boone County White . . .21 



Learning Corn 23 



Boone County White Corn . _ 25 



Shape of Ears, Boone County White .... 27 



Kernel Indentation, Boone County White ... 29 



Large, Medium and Small Cob, Boone County White . 31 



Maturity, Boone County White 33 



Space Between Rows 35 



Samples of Clover 42 



Attractive Field of Cowpeas 45 



Good Specimen Soy Bean Plant 49 



Corn Silk 58 



Effect of Inbreeding 60 



Effect of Three Years' Inbreeding 64 



Effect of Four Years' Inbreeding 67 



Young Ear of Com Before Silking 6g 



Pollen Grains on Silk 7° 



Testing Vitality of Seed Corn 71 



Pollen Grains 8i 



Proper and Improper Shapes of Kernel .... 83 



Homemade Land Roller 89 



Direction of Rows of Kernels, Boone County White . 92 



Corn Crib on Scales . i°3 



Modern Corn Crib loS 



Corn Marker for Hand Planting 116 



Homemade Corn Planter "8 



Effects of Listing . . .' 121 



Root Development of Corn in Field 125 



Distribution of Hoops on Stave Silo . . . .129 



Construction of Studding Silo 132 



Cheap Stave Silo '34 



Silo Attached to Barn i37 



Low Wa?on for Handling Silage Corn . . . .139 



Placing Bundles in Square and Round Silo . . .141 



Filling the Silo • '42 



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