REPORT OP THE DIRECTOR. 



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"SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



EXPEKIMEN^TS WITH INDIAN CORN". 



Thirty-four varieties of Indian corn were tested during the season of 1900, side 

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

 v'hich received a dressing of barn-yard manure, about twelve tons to the acre, during 

 the winter of 1899-1900. This was placed on the frozen 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 previous crop was barley. The land was gang-ploughed 

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

 in the autumn seven or eight inches deep. In the spring of 1900, after the manure 

 was ploughed under, it was harrowed twice with the smoothing hara-ow before sowing. 

 The corn was sown with the seed drill, in rows three feet apart ; 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. 



The varieties were all sown on May 25, and were cut for ensilage on September 

 12. The yield per acre has been calculated from the weight of the crop cut from two 

 rows, each 66 feet long. 



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Name of Variety. 



1 Thorougrhbred White Flint. . 



2 Ked Cob Ensilage 



3 Early Mastodon . 



4 Giant Prolific Ensilage 



5 Superior Fodder V'ery strong. 



Character 



of 

 Growth. 



Very strong. 



Strons 



6 Salzer's All Gold 



7 Chaiiipion White Pearl 



8 Mammoth Cuban 



9 Longfellow 



10 Angel of Midnight 



11 Canada Whitts Flint 



12 White Cap Yellow Dent 



13 Cloud's Early Yellow 



14 Mammoth Eight-rowed Flint 

 1.5 Pride of the North 



16 Selected Learning, 



17 North Dakota White 



18 CoDipten's Early 



19 Early Butler 



20,Pearce's Prolific 



21 King of the Earliest 



22 Sanford, 



23|Evergrpen Sugar 



'^i Extra Early Huron 



2.5|Early Giant 



2§fEar'y Yellow Long-eared . . . . 



27]Keaelall'3 Giant 



28i Country Gentleman, 



29IMitcheU's Extra Early 



30 Yellow Six Weeks Extra 



31 Extra Early Szekley 



32 Yellow Dakota Flint 



33 Salzer's Earliest Ripe 



34|Extra Early Corey 



Stronpr. 



MecHiim. 



Weak 



Height. 



84 to 

 86 to 



] nches. 



100 t.) 112 

 108 to 120 

 100 to 120 



96 to 112 

 108 to l:-0 



96 to 103 

 110 to 1-0 



90 to l(r2 



90 

 90 to 100 



86 to 100 

 120 to 133 



84 to 102 

 96 to 118 

 112 to 124 

 90 to 102 

 84 to 96 

 90 to 102 



87 to 100 

 84 to 

 84 to 

 84 to 

 84 to 

 68 to 

 72 to 

 60 to 

 SO to 

 60 to 

 60 to 



to 

 to 



68 

 60 

 60 to 

 55 to 



96 



9C 

 96 

 96 

 80 

 84 

 72 

 90 

 72 

 72 

 80 

 72 

 72 

 67 



Leafir 



Very leafy 

 Leafy .... 

 Very leafy 

 Leafy . . 

 II .... 



IT .... 



Very leafy 



Leafy .... 



II .... 



M .... 



II ... 



II .... 



It ... 



II .... 



Leafy . . . 



Fairly leafy 

 Leafy .... 



Condition when 

 Cut. 



September 12. 



Late milk 



Early milk 



Late milk 



Early mil k 



Late milk. 



Fairly leafy. 

 Leafy ... 



Fairly leafy. 



Glazed . . 

 Late milk. 

 Glazed . . . 

 Late milk. 

 Doughy. . 

 L.ate milk. 



Glazed . 



Late milk. 

 Glazed . . . 



Doughy.., 

 Glazed . . . 

 Late milk. 

 Ripe 



Weight 

 per Acre- 

 grown 

 in rows. 



Tons. Lbs. 



24 



23 



23 



23 



23 



23 



23 



23 



22 



22 



22 



21 



21 



21 



21 



20 



20 



19 



19 



18 



18 



17 



17 



17 



15 



13 



13 



12 



12 



11 



10 



10 



9 



9 



1,280 



1,740 



1,300 



1,300 



640 



310 



200 



200 



110 



1,780 



900 



240 



20 



40 



40 



500 



280 



1,400 



850 



1,910 



1,200 



100 



1,900 



1,280 



180 



1,520 



310 



110 



1,780 



1,780 



1,800 



1,580 



INDIAN CORN PL.\NTEn AT DIFFERENT DISTAN'ORS. 



Three varieties of Indian com were chosen for this test, the Longfellow, Selected 

 Learning and Champion White PearL They were sown in rows, at four different dis- 



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