The Book of Corn (Classic Reprint)

Page Root Development Frontispiece Uniform Ears, Boone County White .... 3U niform Sample, Boone County White .. ..11 Reid s Yellow Dent 16 Length of Ear, Boone County White .. .-19 Circumference of Ear, Boone County White ..21 .L eaming Corn 23 Boone County White Corn 25 Shape of Ears, Boone County White .. ..27 Kernel I ndentation, Boone County White ... 29 Large, Medium and Small Cob, fioone County White .31 Maturity, Boone County White 33 Space Between Rows 35 Samples of Clover 42 Attractive Field of Cowpeas 45 Good Specimen Soy Bean Plant 49 Corn Silk 58 Efi Eect of Inbreeding 60 Effect of Three Years Inbreeding 64 Effect of Four Years Inbreeding 67 Young Ear of Corn Before Silking 69 Pollen Grains on Silk 70 Testing Vitality of Seed Com 71 Pollen Grains 81 Proper arfd Improper Shapes of Kernel .... 83 Homemade Land Roller .89 Direction of Rows of Kernels, Boone County White .92 Com Crib on Scales 103 Modern Corn Crib 105 Corn Marker for Hand Planting 116 Homemade Corn Planter ..118 Effects of Listing 121 Root Development of Com in Field 125 Distribution of Hoops on Stave Silo .. 129 Construction of Studding Silo 132 Cheap Stave Silo i34 Silo Attached to Bam i37 Low Wagon for Handling Silage Corn .. .-139 Placing Bundles in Square and Round Silo ..
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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