ADVENTURES OF A KERNEL OF CORN 33 



He soon found himself reposing in another rack, 

 with each section numbered to correspond to the 

 numbers on the germinator. 



After an interval of ten days, Oldtimer came back 

 and took our subject out of the rack, after Fanner 

 Good had taken careful measurements of the ear 

 and noted in a big record book aU its characteristics, 

 recording as well, the perfect germination of the ten 

 kernels. He then shelled all the kernels off the cob 

 and placed them in a small paper sack with the num- 

 ber 1632 on it. 



"WeU, well ! Here are a lot of my brothers I have 

 never seen. Where have you been all the time?" 

 asked our yellow kernel. 



"Why, we have been with you aU the time, but we 

 were on the other side of the ear from you. I won- 

 der where we go from here," said a timid, golden- 

 headed youngster. 



His question was soon answered by Farmer Good, 

 who took the box with all the other ninety-nine sacks 

 of kernels which were to be planted in the hundred- 

 row breeding grounds of the most select ears, for the 

 future crops of the great farm, and drove out to 

 Field No. 21. Here Oldtimer had his planter ready, 

 and the ground had been put into perfect shape. 

 First, it had been properly fertilized with two tons 



