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Fodder Corn — Concluded. 



Variety. 



Mammoth Southern Sweet. 

 Giant Prolific Ensilage . . . . 

 Longfellow 



Mitchell's Early. 



Pee and Kay 



Long White Flint . 



Dakota Gold Coin 



White Flint, from Dakota. 



YeUow Flint 



Eight-r6wed Sugar 



Early Mammoth 



Livingstone's Gold Coin . . . 



Potter's Excelsior 



Virginia Horse Tooth 



Extra early Cory 



Cinquantine 



White Flint, from Steele . . 



<S> bo 



0)" 



Feet. 



6 to 6^ 

 5i " 6 

 5|" 6 



4^ 



Red Blazed •.. 6 



Pearce's Prolific 5 



5i " 

 5i" 



6 " 

 5i 



5^ 



5 



4i 



5 



5 



6 



4 



5i 

 5 



Stage of Growth 

 when Cut. 



Just in tassel . . . 

 Not in tassel . . . 

 Silk just appear- 

 ing 



Silk, dry 



6iiln silk 



5| Silk just appear- 

 ing 



6 In silk 



6 Silk just appear- 

 ing 



6i Full silk 



6 ~""" 



6 



5 



5i 



5i 



6i 



5 



6 



5i 



Silk nearly dry. , 



In silk 



Silk nearly dry. 



In tassel , 



Just in tassel . . 



In tassel 



Not in tassel . . . , 

 Silk nearly dry . 



In silk , 



Silk, green 



Condition of 

 Ears. 



None 



do 



Not formed 



Early milk 



Nearly formed. . 



Not formed 



Formed 



Not formed 



Early milk 



ao 



Nearly formed . . 



Early milk 



None 



do 



do 



do ; . 



Early milk 



Partly formed . . 

 Just formed . . . . 



Leafiness. 



Fairly leafy 

 do 



do 

 Very leafy 



bottom . . , 

 Fairly leafy, 



Quite leafy 

 do 



Fairly leafy 



do 

 Very leafy . . 

 Quite leafy . 

 Fairly leafy 

 Very leafy . . 

 Quite leafy . 



do 



Not very leafy 

 Leafy at bottom. 



Fairly leafy 



Leafy at bottom, 



at 



Yield per 

 Acre. 



Tons. lbs. 



15 

 14 



14 

 14 



13 

 13 



13 

 13 

 12 

 12 

 12 

 12 

 11 

 11 

 10 

 9 

 8 

 15 



800 

 1,590 



14 1,590 



1,260 

 50 



1,610 

 1,280 



840 

 400 

 530 

 420 

 310 

 310 

 880 

 550 

 1,120 

 920 

 720 

 800 



FODDER PLANTS. 



In addition to the Indian corn a number of varieties of corn-like millets, &c., 

 were tested ; owing, however, to the cool spring and summer, these did not give the 

 yield they otherwise would have done. All were sown on grain stubble with the 

 Planet Junior drill in rows three feet apart, and cut on 11th September, before 

 which date the upper foot of the plants was injured by frost. 



These plants have now been tried here on two greatly varying seasons, viz., in 

 1889, a hot dry summer, and the past season a wet and cool one, and in neither year 

 were they equal to the early varieties of Indian corn, such as Mitchell's Early or 

 North Dakota. 



Below will bo found particulars of yield, &c., of these plants. 



