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interesting to raise some and supply the club with popcorn at its
meetings all the next winter. Now Myron did not know that from the corn
tassels the pollen when ripe or dry blows all over the corn field. This
pollen falls on the silk of corn plants anywhere in the field. The
pollen fertilizes the plant and the ear of corn sets and grows. Because
the pollen being light is blown to such distances and because different
kinds of corn can interpollinate, is reason enough for not planting
different varieties of corn in one patch.

Myron's popcorn and sweet corn fertilized each other and he got a corn
which was a cross between the sweet corn and popcorn. He learned a
lesson of pollination, but at the expense of the corn crop.

One may plant early and late corn in the same patch but otherwise he
should stick to one kind of corn.

The boys in the fall were to submit twelve of the finest ears they had
raised. These were to be scored or sized up as follows:

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| NAME OF CONTESTANT | VARIETY OF | DATES OF PLANTING |
| | CORN | |
| .................. | ..............| ................. |
|------------------------------------|-------------------|
| (1) Ear: | | |
| A. Trueness to type | 10 | |
| B. Shape | 10 | 20 |
|------------------------------------|---------|---------|
| (2) Filling of: | | |
| A. Tip | 10 | |
| B. Butt | 10 | 20 |
|------------------------------------|---------|---------|
| (3) Kernels: | | |
| A. Shape | 6 | |
| B. Arrangement of cob | 12 | |
| C. Depth | 6 | |
| D. Colour | 6 | 30 |
|------------------------------------|---------|---------|
| (4) Measurements of ear: | | |
| A. Length | 10 | |
| B. Circumference | 10 | 20 |
|------------------------------------|---------|---------|
| (5) Proportion of Corn to Cob: