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When the boy's and girl's work began In the spring of 1909, Earls Zeller of Cooper, a thirteen-year-old boy, planted ten good ears In Individual rows for an "ear to the row test." He planted about one-fourth of each ear and the remainder was saved on the cob. The ears were good ones, the samples having won premiums at several shows, but no one of them had any prolhise of being a better producer than Its mates. When harvest time came In the fall, young Zeller found that ear No. 7 of his plot had yielded 118 bushes per acre. Not only did It have this bumper yield to its credit, but he also noticed that this row had produced ears that were remarkably ilke the ear from which the row was planted, or the mother ear. He selected five good ears from this row and these with the mother ear he showed at the joint contest at Ames in January, 1910. They won the
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