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Title: Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Bowman, Melville LeRoy, 1881- (from old catalog) Crossley, Bruce William, 1886- (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Corn
Publisher: Ames, Ia., The authors
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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on certain points.They knew a good ear of corn, but because of few occasions (cornshows, etc.) for the expression of this knowledge it was not widelydisseminated. INTRODUCTION OF THE CORN SCORE CARD. As corngrowing and breeding became of more recognized importance and theessential characteristics more thoroughly understood by interestedpersons, the formulation of a definite scale of points became neces-sary. *In 1886, at the great corn exhibit at the Exposition at Chi-cago, the five expert judges worked some days in preparing a scaleof points to guide them in their decisions. A score card which hasbeen used for years was arranged for the Illinois Fair at Peoria in189T by Orange Judd (now deceased), the founder of the OrangeJudd Farmer and other agricultural papers. Later the Illinois CornGrowers Association modified the original form by aid of the agron-omists at the University of Illinois. This institution has been in the *Indian Corn Culture, Plumb, Pago 56. CORN JUDGING CLASS. 407
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X <:z oo az 5 Q HQM H CQ OS oo HPSOXm 408 CORN. vanguard in adopting changes for the better in the old score card. Thecorn growers of Missouri have a slightly different scale of points, asdo those of Nebraska also. Some very radical changes have beenmade in the last two years by the Iowa State College, because of thefailure of the old score card to meet the need of simplicity and definitc-ness in short course and institute work. Definition of the Score Card. After having been charged in manydetails, and when only essential things have come to be considered, itmay be said that the corn score card is an outlined statement andexplanation of the points to be observed in the elimination of unde-sirable ears or samples and of recognizing and selecting those ofdesirable characters. The Purposes of the Score Card are: (i) To present to the mind of the student, judge and grower theessential points to be considered in examining an ear or sample ofcorn. (2) To impress the relative value of th

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