EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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SWEET CORN. 



The varieties grown in the test plat numbered twenty-five, and consisted 

 of the standard sorts and of such new ones as we could obtain. They were 

 planted 3^x3 feet, and 20 hills of each sort were grown, with five kernels 

 in a hill. The number vegetating was noted and is given in the table. 

 Although the planting was not done until the 26th of May, the soil was 

 kept cold and wet by rain, for several weeks, and the stand was not perfect. 



Table IV. 



Of the extra early varieties there was no appreciable difference in time 

 of ripening of Cory, Harbinger, Marblehead and No. 48 from Salzer; and 

 following very closely came Burbank, Crosby, Minnesota, Ford, Leet, Pee 

 and Kay, Perry and Shaker. 



Amber Cream, Everbearing, Guarantee, Honey, Maule's XX, Old Colony, 

 Concord, and Stabler would be classed as intermediate, and Late Mammoth, 

 Gold Coin, Shoe Peg, and Stowell as late sorts. 



EARLY VARIETIES. 



Cory — The original Cory had a red cob and was several days ahead of 

 Marblehead, but in our tests of this variety from ten different seedsmen we 

 found that in most cases they had by selection secured white cobs, although 

 that type was not fixed. 



Harbinger — Much like Marblehead in size and general appearance. It 

 may be a selected strain of that variety with eight-rowed ears, white cobs, 

 and white kernels. Quite productive and of excellent quality. 



Marblehead — For a long time, this has been the standard early variety 

 and selected strains are still unsurpassed in earliness. 



