xt7jsx646291 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7jsx646291/data/mets.xml   Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station. 1918 journals kaes_circulars_001_1_063 English Lexington : The Service, 1913-1958. Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station Circular (Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station) n. 063 text Circular (Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station) n. 063 1918 2014 true xt7jsx646291 section xt7jsx646291 t
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
THOMAS P. COOPER, Dean
Extension Division
FRED MUTCHLER, Director
_ CIRCULAR NO. 63
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~ Selecting and Caring for Seed Corn
BY
t _ E. J. KINNEY
SliI"I`l£)lBl£R. 1915
Published in connection with the agricultural extension work cnr-
ried on by co-operation of the College of Agriculture, University of
Kélltucky, with the U. S. Department of Agzriculture, and distributed
in furtherance of the work provided for in the Act of Congress of
Mn? 8. 1914.

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