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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1913)
I cr furmer know that corn must lii. I'l.uitci! in l.iri piautilics tinsel) Kctlicr -that , miikIi kernel of cunt planted in one corner o( .1 lot, . j.ir I (mm other growinc; corn, will lie non-pro-duitisc Yet how many of those who depend upon com for their liitiK know the tea ni for this? I he reason in simple ciioukIi It is t-l ton when the inrihoil li which corn reproduces itself I understood. Ml plant depend upon pollination, in smite form, for reproduction ptrpctua ii'ii Most of the (lower depend 'ipmi bees to carr) their pol It 11 from one to another nd s mdarly other lloucrs and 11 in) fruits depend upon otltr insects, or upon hum 111111K bird or other hints, to carry the pollen whii.li means perpetuation propa Kiunii miiltiplicaiinn Corn has an entirely differ cut method of preparation 1 1 relies not at all upon Inr Is, lues or other nisei, ts It is whit is called a wind loung plant If oti will call to iiiinil .1 stalk of corn as oti hac seen It staudiiiK in a field, )'! will reiucuihcr that at its iry top there is a hunch of tasils These tassels hear the rcpro tluctnc pollen I oner down upon the stalk arc the ears cciilamiiiK tl c ecd and from caih car protrudes a ipiautit) of -silk 'I he silk is the femaU or Kin, or pollen dm t I er ear,iti strand c f ilk Kails to .1 separate kcr 1 ! on the tar 1 Iris it will he scin that in a W.IMMK field of corn a the wi'ul swishe it Kraiefi'l t 1 and fro. the pollm d" t is si 1 tti red from tin 1 1 ' at the top and, il -(.eii'liUK ' deposited uKn the silken pol leu ilu ts Where ou hate seen an tar of corn with deftctue or iiunnturc kernels, ou itny he sure that the i.ittse was tint the particular strands of f Ik dusted to thoc ktriuN vire not duitcil with pollen. ho, Nature's provision for the repro d ftimi of corn demand that it he p'autid closely together, in hirk'e iiiu title, in order that the pollen dust in.i, ' TitiK the reproductive Mason, fill Ihe .itr 111 showers y n definite example of the absolute 1 c essity of pollinating corn, the dirert c ilor pliolnKrnph reproduction on thin pae is shown The full car of com depicted at the left L a normal ear from a patch of corn phuteil in sin ii 1 i) tint piillm itiou lllllir.lll) oik pl.li I I In liKine at its rihl is in r it ol mi fruiti th sami stalk, puked at i.ml the same tune, which had been cmrird iIiimhk the pollinating season with a common paper hat;. o thai the (kiIIcii could not reach the silk close examination of this tnulr r I opid turn will show tin whili, uunutiire, imformeil mush) krriuN hcniatli tlie strand of silk of 110 atu. of toiirsi, tillur for food iurpoMs as vol lorn is "in of the caut plants with Corn I'olllntitecl unci Unpolllnntril which to work b) rros hrrnluiL; because result are slum 11 lln sami caoii I'lio reason for tin i that it is out of the few plant in which the tcd list If (the kernel of torn) is tht- crop wlilih the plant kiu' us In most plain the crop which brink" u prohi 1 the fruit or food which k'rows around the ced. Many nitcroliui; expirimenU may thus be t r u il with corn If .1 selected 1 ir is ion red with a paper hae; shortl) In fort tin rittpluc I II pilmil, llo () ti-.rl limn ant .iK. 1 llilll Willi Will. Il ll I". lIlMI'll I" HI ik , ituss, t.iu, wh 11 111.1I1111. In 1.111111I lo 11 and diistnl upon H b baud, altt wlnili the Hillinatrd ear ni.i) lie ir onoul with the hat; I hi latter precaution 1. nol wholly ucecar) Once the silk has m rind It III si Hilleli, it lltuall) In 1 mile iinreirptixe lo all other pollt-n In a ir few week the lesilll nl Ihr pollination will he seen 'I he kernels ol that hand pollinated ear will irpietriii 1 mis between the two selected parents, wbeiia Ihe kernel uf another ear mi the sour Mall,. pollinated d lis llrlkllliols, will Its' Cfllirrly 1'iift rent III fart, poll, n ma) be selected (toni tin or four or more lilfrrent ki i.h f torn and dusted up mi Iht ilk ! a single ear with tin 11 Milt that the nidi n! tl kinoN Mill allow 111 1 1: r llis.. 1 Ue and shape Ihe iliibreiit iharartrri 11. -1 1 I 11 . two patent ( c r 1 is 111c1ica' must mil n , 1 1 top. In 1 ' I 1 innle kernel tu the c ir mi in a lie ntilhmi liti rl t f ( inetease In tin cn.-utf) il.iiie Mr I) much has been done il uk Ihe line of cn I tredlUK srlrclKHl ami rultl v.ill in t iward the improer III: lit of torn 1 1 111 pilr of all of the ilfiit c s.p. inleil, corn in Ihe Ii: I 1 irn stales usually Kin, 1 1 1 liriLjht of eiulit or 1 1 ft el. and average h ' i'v s than two ear to t' H'k llirwi Hie past uiiuirr. ' . I miImhW. after nrarl) . ir- of rspeiliueiil turn ha tHIMblnil . ' il. 11 feel in height. I ' ihnly two eat to l HI! I 1 d H'K tin, he maile tie 1(1' in is which he learned u' ' t ikinK coin hack tin t'i'i 1 i'i I ) uis in it ewdti Hull Hi de)ehied latent fluidities of which preeut di lorn K'e no indiraliou, I nl ttlii. Ii in ill. fiirn lliat J k"w brfori ( olitmbll came, were oIimoiisI) maiiifeated I.llther lliirbauk'n torn esperimeul is not a uupleted t sperunent but Ihe ic ult alread aihlesrd show the way to im reainu Xunriia's torn crop nol only in 1111111111) bill 111 iiialll, wilhoill addlllK isHiisr, iillirr in srrd, in land, or in eiiupuitit, and elTeiliui; an actual eion omy in haretiuK ihe crop A Ihise esii M111111I proiiress, bid lelms for free disiribiition. illustritid with dincl color idiolok'r.iph prints mil be Issued b I he l.ulhcr llurbank bniiel I I rl