9 BULLETIN 693, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
kinds are grown in your school district? Which has proved most 
profitable? Which produces the larger annual crop, corn or wheat? 
Ewercises—Have six or more pupils bring 10 ears of the best corn 
they can find at home. It would be better if all could bring the 
same kind of corn. Before the pupils attempt to select the most 
desirable ears for seed have them read the references. Then have | 
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the pupils select 20 or 30 of the best-looking ears for use in the lesson 
on judging corn 
References..—Farmers’ Bulletin 229, pp. 8, 9; 253,* pp. 6, 7; 415, 
pp. 4, 5; 587, pp. 18, 19; 5535 554. 
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Fic. 1.—Characteristics of a well-developed ear of corn. 
LESSON II. 
Judging corn. 
Topics for study.—Object of corn judging. Value of “corn score : 
card.” Preparation of local corn exhibit. Learn how to judge of the | 
maturity, vitality, and distinctness of type of corn. 
Exercises——Provide each pupil with 10 ears of corn and let him , 
practice scoring, using the score card given. Each pupil should 
score a half dozen or more 10-ear samples before this exercise is | 
passed by. Number all of the ears from 1 to 20 or 1 to 30, as the case | 
may be, by tying to each a small numbered tag or sticking a numbered | 
peg into the butt of each cob. Have each pupil provide himself with | 
a score card ruled as shown below, providing one column for each | 
ear of corn. The figures in the score card just to the left of the first 
perpendicular line show the number of “points” that should be | 
* Farmers’ Bulletins marked with an asterisk (*) throughout this publication are not 
available for free distribution, but may be secured from the Superintendent of Docu- 
ments, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for 5 cents a copy. 
