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...like mice, mackerel and men, reproduces by means of male sperm and female eggs. The sperm is produced and dispersed from the tassels at the top of the stalk; the eggs lurk at the base of the silk on each ear. In ordinary "open-pollinated" corn, fertilization occurs at random, the sperm-bearing pollen being carried to the silk by the wind. For inbreeding, the tassels and silk are protected by paper bags until maturity, and the plants are then self-pollinated by hand. These inbred strains become highly uniform. Finally, promising strains are crossed to combine advantages-long ears...
...WILD PALMS-William Faulkner -Random House...
...expert is this Mr. Malaprop that for years the press room has designated one man to keep up-to-date a compendium of McSheehyisms. Culled at random, we offer (all of these delivered from the floor in public meetings of the Board of Supervisors...
...LINCOLN BATTALION-Edwin Rolfe -Random House...
...GOLDEN SWAN MURDER-Dorothy Cameron Disney-Random House ($2). Summoned hysterically to Hollywood by her glamor-girl niece, testy spinster Susan Page of Philadelphia finds the G. G.'s ex-husband murdered in a fancy gilded bed. Susan's spinster intuition...