EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 295 



To institute workers, to the experiment station; and to the farm de- 

 partment of the college, come questions something like the following: 



(a) What breed of corn shall I grow? 



(b) What are the best methods to employ in the growing of 

 corn? and, 



(c) Along what lines and in what waj's may I improve my corn? 

 The thing sought is the largest possible yield of the best possible corn. 



BREEDS OP CORN. 



Comparatively few people grow pure breeds of corn. Indeed, com- 

 paratively few people realize that there are pure breeds of corn. With 

 them a yellow dent is a yellow dent. 



The number of breeds of corn grown in Michigan is not great, and in 

 many cases these are not pure. They have either been crossed upon, 

 or through carelessness or lack of knowledge have been bred away from 

 the original type. 



The following breeds are found to be grown in the State in fairly pure 

 form : 



Hathaway. Ried's Yellow. 



Pride of the North. Leaming. 



Hackberry. Shenandoah Valley. 



Mortgage Lifter. Minnesota King. 



Huron Dent. Golden Ideal. 



Of the white dents a number of very good samples have been found, 

 but names seem to be unknown, excepting the Erie dent, grown in 

 Genesee countv. 



Of the white cap yellow dents a number of good strains exist, but the 

 Burpee is the only one so far found bearing a name. 



Of the ensilage corn, the Giant Cuban, is the only one so far found. 



Miscellaneous dents: 



Calico (turkey track). 

 Red. 



Strawberry. 

 California calico. 



Of the flints: 



Smut-nose. 

 Kind Phillip. 

 Yellow. 

 White. 



"What breed shall I grow?" is a common question. 



If you can find a breed in your own locality giving a good yield of 

 corn, of good quality and strong type, such a breed would be excellent 

 to begin with. With intelligent selection and good care it is possible 

 to improve it in both quality and yield, considerably beyond what it 

 now is, and is doing. 



When a breed of corn is brought from one part of a state to another, 

 experience seems to show emphatically that one or more years are re- 

 quired to bring it to the point of producing best yields, and then it may* 

 not be well adapted to the conditions of soil, etc., of the locality. 



