GROWING GOOD CORN

There was a Nebraska farmer who grew an award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it always won first place. One year, a newspaper journalist interviewed him and learned something amazing about how he grew it. The journalist discovered that the farmer shared his seed corns with his neighbors. " How can you afford to share your best seed corns with your neighbors when they too are joining the competition each year?, the journalist asked. "Why, sire, said the farmer, didn't you know ? The wind pricks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn too."