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gress until the end. For fear of fro.st the corn was cut on 7th September, and put in 

 silo ill a green state. The weight per acie is computed from two rows of each sort, 

 €6 feet long in green state. North Dakota and Red Bhized gave much the be.st yield ; 

 both seemed to stand the cool niichts better than the other sorts. 



CORN. 



Fourteen varieties were planted on a piece of ground that had been fallowed 

 and well manured, with a view of testing their earliness. Everything was done 

 possible to force the plants, in the way of hoeing and cultivating, l^o weight is 

 given of the yield, as the frost on 12th September was severe enough to cut the corn 

 to the ground. 



Variety. 



Squaw Corn 



Yellow Flint 



White Flint 



Mitchell's Extra Early 



E.xtra Early Cory 



Mammoth Southern Sweet . 



Pearce's Prolific 



Perry's Hybrid 



Red Blazed 



Giant Prolific 



Large Eight-rowed 



Potter's Excelsior. 



Asylum Sweet do 



