BREEDING AND CURING 



the ears thus produced would have been 

 full of grains, but all would have been 

 crosses. 



Such a breeding block as above outlined 

 may well consist of at least a half of the 

 stock plants and the other half divided 

 equally among the five breeders. Thus, 

 rows 1, 3, S, 7, 9 and 11 may be the white 

 sweet variety that is to become a mother 

 of all the crosses, while rows 2, 4, 6, 8 and 

 10 are planted with the five breeder sorts 

 respectively. 



It is seen that a small block of white 

 sweet corn may become the breeding ground 

 of various crosses, but the next generation 

 calls for isolation for each of the crosses 

 thus obtained. It is, in other words, a 

 comparatively easy matter to get a cross 

 with corn, but it is quite another matter 

 to separate out and bring to perfection the 

 cross obtained because of the extreme ease 

 with which the pollen is transported by 

 the wind. 



If the reader is seeking for a tangle in 

 corn breeding, let him take the grains that 



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