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Title: Manual of corn judging
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Shamel, A. D. (Archibald Dixon)
Subjects: Corn
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Mann Library, Cornell

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ears are likely to have better filledtips than races having large, long ears, grown under simi-lar conditions. It is absolutely necessary that we keepin mind the fact that we are selecting those samples whichwill tend to grow more corn per acre, and .if long earsnot covered over the tips with kernels give the largestyield, this type is most desirable and should be scoredaccordingly. The cob is an axis bearing the kernels, andthe larger the cob, other things being equal, the morekernels can be developed on each ear. However, as betweentwo ears of the same size, grown under similar conditionsand for like purposes, one having the tip fully coveredwith uniform, regular kernels, and the other having thetip uncovered, the covered tip is certainly the most de-sirable; In most cases where the tip is uncovered, thekernels near the tip are small, irregular and in every wayundesirable. Therefore these uncovered tips should becut severely, more so than if all the kernels were of the 58 MANUAL OF
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CIRCUMFERENCE OF EARS—319 PROPER CIRCUMFERENCE,320 TOO LARGE, 321 TOO SMALL CORIS JUDGING 59 regular uniform size and shape. It is necessary for cornjudges to study tips of ears under different conditions inorder to gain a safe point of view from which, they canproperly score the filling out of the tips. Butts of Ears In the case of the butt the rows of kernels should ex-tend in regular order over the butt and around the shankor ear stalk. When the shank is removed in husking, aregular depression should be left. If the kernels are notfilled out about the shank, the shank is usually developedvery large and strong. This interferes very seriously inhusking, as it is very difficult to break off some of the heavyshanks. Not only is this true, but in such cases, the buttof the cob not being fully filled over, there is a smallerproportion of corn to cob. This filling out about the shankcan be carried too far, as many other single points may bedeveloped out of true proportion. In one of the

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