Corn Investigations 
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Fig. 3. — Representative ears of corn grown from native seed from eleven 
regional areas in Nebraska. 
Top row: Corn grown in Lancaster County; Bottom row: Corn 
grown in Kimball County. 
Sources of seed: 1, Richardson County; 2, Lancaster County; 3, 
Washington County; 4, Thurston County; 5, Nuckolls County; 6, 
Kearney County; 7, Holt County; 8, Lincoln County; 9, Grant 
County; 10, Cherry County; 11, Kimball County. 
These eleven native corn types were grown comparatively 
in 1916 in Lancaster, eastern Cherry, and Kimball Counties. 
The rate of planting in these three cases was normal for each 
region and was uniform for all types. Corn is seldom planted 
more than two-thirds as thick in western as in eastern Nebraska. 
When compared under the favorable conditions of Lancas- 
ter County, seed from all sources matured satisfactorily. Grown 
in Kimball County, maturity was rather proportional to the 
proximity to the seed’s source. In Cherry County, with its 
