ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Root Development .... 



Uniform Ears, Boone County White 



Uniform Sample, Boone County White 



Reid's Yellow Dent 



Length of Ear, Boone County White 



Circumference of Ear, Boone County White 



Learning Corn 



Boone County White Corn 



Shape of Ears, Boone County White 



Kernel Indentation, Boone County White 



Large, Medium and Small Cob, Boone County 



Maturity, Boone County White 



Space Between Rows . 



Samples of Clover .... 



Attractive Field of Cowpeas 



Good Specimen Soy Bean Plant 



Corn Silk ... 



Effect of Inbreeding .... 



Effect of Three Years' Inbreeding . 



Effect of Four Years' Inbreeding . 



Young Ear of Corn Before Silking 



Pollen Grains on Silk 



Proper and Improper Shapes of Kernel 



Pollen Grains 



Homemade Land Roller 



Direction of Rows of Kernels, Boone County White 



Corn Crib on Scales . 



Modern Corn Crib .... 



Corn Marker for Hand Planting 



Homemade Corn Planter . 



Effects of Listing .... 



Root Development of Corn in Field . 



Distribution of Hoops on Stave Silo 



Construction of Studding Silo . 



Cheap Stave Silo .... 



Silo Attached to Barn 



Low Wagon for Handling Silage Corn . 



Placing Bundles in Square and Round Silo 



Filling the Silo 



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