264 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE 



Group 9, Section 2 



Rural Group Dibble's Russet, Late Petoskey. 



Grouj) 10, Pearl Group Pearl or Peerless, People's. 



McCorniick, Round Pink Eye, 

 Group 11, Peachblow Group Perfect Peachblow, Jersey 



Peachblow. 



NON-CLASSIFIED. 



Idaho Rural, Up-to-Date. 



Each of these different classes represents a characteristic 

 oi its own, some peculiar type or growth of plant or tuber 

 formation. It seems to me that instead of making a standard 

 of our own we should adopt some such standard as this. 



I would like to mention at this time the Minnesota Dent 

 corn which w^as tested out in Hancock county this past year. 

 A certain banker in Minnesota sent to the Union Trust Com- 

 pany of Ellsworth 80 odd ears of White Cap Dent com, which 

 matures in that state in 90 days. These were put out one ear 

 to a farm, in Hancock county. The Union Trust Company 

 asked us to make a set of rules for growing this corn and we 

 made what we called the 'Twelve Golden Rules of Corn Grow- 

 ing.'' If these rules were followed closely, according to each 

 man's conditions, they would give almost an ideal condition of 

 corn growing. Of course that does not take into consideration 

 the climate and soil conditions as much as it should. We also 

 sent each man a report to fill out at the end of the season 

 showing how closely he had followed the plan outlined for him, 

 and asked him to give us the yield in pounds of corn and the 

 proportion of it that would do for seed. I believe I have 

 reports from 12 or 14 of these 80 odd men, and about half of 

 them have corn that has matured this year. I am a little dis- 

 appointed in one thing: The Union Trust Company has 

 offered special premiums on this corn and there is only one 

 man who has taken advantage of that offer. 



Last spring we sent several samples of our flint corn to 

 Montana, the eight-rowed and twelve-rowed and other varie- 



