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Title: Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Agriculture
Publisher: (Raleigh, N.C.?) : Board of Agriculture
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ETHODS OF IMPROVEMENT. At present there are three methods in common practice for the improve-ment of corn by seed selection, viz.: (1) importation or buying of im-proved seed; (2) field selection of the best home-grown seed, and (3)home field selection and growing of corn for seed purposes in an isolatedfield. IMPORTATION OF SEED. , Under no circumstances should farmers depend each year upon impor-tation for seed, as corn brought from a distance (where soil and climatic 24 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. conditions are different) seldom yields satisfactory results until it hasbecome thoroughly acclimatized, which usually requires from two tothree years. The force of this statement is amply illustrated in ourexperience with the best varieties of Western and Northwestern corn.None of these have done extra well under North Carolina conditions thefirst year after importation, although they are among the most prolificones grown in the principal corn-growing belt of the country. This
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(47) (48) (49) (50) Fig. 13.—Type Ears of Varieties: (47) Southern Beauty; (48) Eureka; (49) Mosbys Prolific; and (50) Sanders Improved. further emphasizes the need in all variety tests of as complete knowl-edge as possible of the conditions under which the parent plants weregrown. Especially should the locations be known from whence all seedcome, before one can properly interpret varietal results; for, if notacclimatized, suppressed yield may be expected from this cause. The advantage of imported seed is that the farmer is frequentlyenabled to begin improvement where some careful grower or skilledplant breeder has left off. It is here as with animals; for, if it is de-sired to breed milk cows, it is not best to go back to the scrub to beginselecting the desirable animals, but rather to begin with some of thebest of the recognized milk breeds, like the Jersey, Guernsey, etc., andwith these continue the improvement by breeding and selection. SOME FACTORS IN SUCCESSFUL CORN GROWING. 2

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