no 



yield in the order named, and all of them, excepting the Long "White Flint, attained 

 a sufficient degree of maturity to make excellent ensilage. 



" Among the different sorts of Dent corn, none of which, however, mature as 

 well as the Flint varieties, the following have been found to yield the greatest weight 

 of crop: — Yii-ginia Horse-tooth, Golden Beauty, Golden Dent, Blunt's Prolific, 

 Mammoth Southern Sweet and Eed Cob Ensilage. 



" Many sorts of sweet corn have given a large yield, the most prolific being 

 Mammoth Sugar, Crosby, Eight-rowed Sugai-, Egyptian Sugar and Asylum Sweet. 

 The earliest ripening among these is the Crosby." 



On a plot adjoining the one where the 68 varieties were planted, Thoroughbied 

 White Flint was planted in hills 3 feet apart. Two rows of it of an equal length, 

 from the hill method of cultivation, gave at the rate of 4 tons 250 lb. per acre larger 

 yield than two rows under the drill method of cultivation, grown close by. It would 

 not be prudent to base a general conclusion on the result of this one comparison. Tbe 

 method of cultivation in hills seems to permit of the formation of a larger number of 

 ears on the stalks, and a rather earlier maturing of the crop. 



From the corn which was grown on the 40-acre plot, already reported ujwn, 

 some information bearing upon the comparative value of the crop of corn at different 

 stages of maturity has been obtained. The stage of maturity reached has been 

 recorded at the " tasselling," "silking," "early milk," " late milk " and "glazing" 

 stages of growth. 



The following Table illustrates the number of ears and nubbins, obtained from 

 planting in rows 3 ft., 4 ft. and 5 ft. apart, with from 3 to 4 grains per lineal foot in 

 the rows : — 



Table I. 

 ]>rumber of Ears and Nubbins, in rows 100 feet long, on 15th September. 



While the rows 5 feet apart showed the largest number of ears and nubbins per 

 lineal foot in the rows, the three different methods of planting gave nearly the same 

 numbers each per acre. 



Information on the comparative percentages of water, dry matter, yields per 

 acre, dry matter ^er ton, and dry matter per acre, at the different stages of growth 

 of the four varieties, "Longfellow," "Pearce's Prolific," "Thoroughbred White 

 Flint," and " Eed Cob," are found in the following Table:— 



