A POINT FOR MAIZE FARMERS.
Many farmers in different parts of tho world have been possessed of the idea that the suckers, or earless slalks, which grow from a cob-bearing ■ stalk of maize, aTe a hindranco to the best growth of tho latter; and valuable hours aro sometimes spent in removing them. But actual experiments during two successive years on Nebraska farms demonstrated that maize with tho suckers left undisturbed outyielded that' from which the suckers liad been removed. Their leaves, like the others, wonld seem to perform a useful office in absorbing nutritive elements from tho atmosphere for tho benefit of tho cob on the main stalk.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1244, 28 September 1911, Page 8
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108A POINT FOR MAIZE FARMERS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1244, 28 September 1911, Page 8
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