REPORT OF TEE DIRECTOR 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPERIMENTS WITH INDIAN CORN. 



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Thirty-eight vaneties of Indian corn were tested during the season of 1902, side by 

 side on fairly uniform land. The soil was a sandy loam of good quality, which received 

 a dressing of barn-yard manure about 12 tons to the acre, during the winter of 1901-2. 

 This was placed on the fi^ozen land, fresh from the barn yard in small heaps of about 

 one third of a cart load each and spread and ploughed under in the spring. The pre- 

 vious crop was experimental plots of oats and wheat. The land was gang-ploughed 

 shallow shortly after harvest to start shed grain and weed seeds and ploughed again late 

 in the autumn about seven inches deep. In the spring of 1902 after the manure was 

 ploughed under the land was harrowed twice with the smoothing harrow before sowing. 

 The corn was sown with the seed drill in rows thirty-five inches apart, also in hills 

 thirty-five inches apart each wa}'. When the plants were from five to seven inches high 

 they were thinned so as to leave them from six to eight inches apart in the rows, and 

 from four to five plants in each hill. The varieties were all sown May 27 and were cut 

 for ensilage September 24. The yield per acre has been calculated from the weight of 

 Aie crop cut from two I'ows each 66 feet long. 



Indian Corn — Test of Yarieties. 



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Name of Variety. 



Eureka 



North Dakota Yellow 



Salzer's All Gold 



King Philip 



Early Butler 



Thoro'bred ^Vhite Flint. . . . 

 Mamm. Eight-rowed Flint. 



Amber Rice 



Country Gentleman 



Superior Fodder 



White Cap Yellow Dent. . . 



Sanford 



North Dakota White 



Compton's Early 



Giant Prolific Ensilage. . . . . 



Pcarce's Prolific 



Pride of the North 



Selected Leaming 



White Pearl Pop ... 



Mammoth Cuban 



Red Cob Ensilage. 



Early Golden Surprise 



King of the Earliest 



Champion White Pearl 



Longfellow 



Angel of Midnight 



Black Mexican 



Yellow Six Weeks 



Evergreen Sugar 



Early Yellow Long Eared . . 



Cloud's Early Yellow 



Canada White Flint 



Karly Mastodon 



Mitchell's Early 



Salzer's Earliest Ripe 



Extra Early Huron 



Kendall's Early Giant.. . . . . 



Early August 



Character 



of 

 Growth. 



Very strong 



Strong. 



Very strong 



Strong 



Medium 



Strong 



Very strong. 



Strong 



Very strong, 



Strong 



Very strong. 

 Strong 



Very strong. 



Strong 



Very strong, 



Strong. 



Medium. 



Very strong. 

 Strong 



Medium. . . . 



M . . . . 



Strong 



Medium. . . . 

 Short & weak 



Height. 



Inches. 



125- 



95- 



95- 



90- 



95- 



105- 



100- 



85- 



80- 



85- 



ICO- 



80- 



100- 



95- 



90- 



90- 



90- 



100- 



100- 



100- 



100- 



115- 



85- 



90- 



85- 



90- 



75- 



60- 



80- 



80- 



105- 



95- 



90- 



65- 



60- 



85- 



65- 



25- 



-130 

 -100 

 -100 



- 95 

 -105 

 -110 

 -105 



- 90 



- 90 



- 90 

 -105 



- 85 

 -105 

 -105 

 -100 



- 95 



- 95 

 ■105 

 -105 

 -105 

 -105 



Leafiness. 



Leafy 



Medium 

 Leafy . . 

 Very leafy 

 Leafy . . 

 II . . 

 Very leafy 



II 

 Leafy . . 

 Very leafy 

 r.eafy . . 

 Very leafy 

 Leafy . . 

 Medium 

 Leafy . . 



Medium. 



Leafy . . . 



Medium. 

 -120; Leafy ... 



-95 



■100| 



- 90 

 100 



- 80 



- 65 



- 90|Very leafy 



- 90 Leafy .... 

 ■115 Very leafy 

 ■105 Leafy 

 100 



• 70 

 ■65 



■ 95 



■ 75 



• 30 



Condition 

 when Cut. 



Medium. 

 Leafy . . . 



Early milk. 



Late milk. , 

 Early milk. 



II 

 Doughy . . . 



11 ... 

 Early milk. 



II 

 Late milk. . 

 Early milk. 

 Late milk.. 

 Early milk. 

 Doughy . . . 



II ... 

 Late milk. . 

 Early milk. 

 Late milk. . 



Doughy . . . 

 Late milk. . 

 Early milk. 

 Late milk. . 

 Early milk. 

 Doughy . . . 

 Late milk". 

 II 



Early milk. 

 Doughy . . . 



Weight 

 per Acre 

 grown 

 in Rows. 



Weight 

 per Act e 



grown 

 in Hills. 



Tons. Lbs. Tons. Lbs. 



Late milk. 

 Ripe 



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460 



1,800' 



60 



320 



1,020 



360 



140 



140 



1,700 



300 



1,500 



1,280 



840 



400 



400 



400 



1,520 



1,300 



1,320 



1,320 



1,100 



920 

 700 

 700 



1,160 



1,840 



],620 



960 



700 



760 



760 



100 



1,220 



1,920 



1,920 



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920 



1,440 



1,040 



420 



240 



440 



1,540 



920 



560 



700 



1,440 



200 



1,520 



1,860 



1,640 



1,520 



980 



1,260 



1,640 



1,280 



1,340 



300 



920 



260 



1,100 



520 



1,740 



160 



1,960 



l,40C, 



1,400 



1,020 



1,960 



1,100 



1,960 



880 



1,740 



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