REPORT OF MR. W. S. BLAIR 



389 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



The season was very suitable for the corn plant. The continuous warm weather 

 matured the crop early, and varieties that have never before eared sufficiently for mar- 

 ket produced a fine crop. The yield was calculated in each case from the product of 

 one row 33 feet long. The following table gives the date of pulling, number of ears 

 and weight of crop. The variety, Peep-O'Day, was the earliest variety grown. The 

 best varieties as to quality were Crosby's Early, Early Marblehead and Early Minne- 

 sota. The Metropolitan, New Champion and Nonesuch are excellent sorts for main 

 croppers. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH CORN. 



Name of Variety. 



PeepO'Day 



Ford's Early Sugar 



First of All 



Red Cory 



White Cory 



Adams' Extra Early 



Early Marblehead 



Crosby's Early 



Mammoth White Cory. . 



Early Minnesota 



Metropolitan 



New Champion 



Nonesuch 



Earliest Sheffield 



Old Colony 



Moore's Early Concord . 



Perry's Hybrid 



Hickox Improved 



Canada Yellow 



Early Giant 



Length 



of 

 Ears. 



Inches. 



54 to 6 

 54 « &i 

 6 ,. 

 64 .. 



64 .. 



6 .. 

 64 

 6 



54 n 



6 ., 



>2 " 



7 



6| 



6 



7 

 7 

 7 

 64 



74 



64 

 6 



7 



74 

 8 



74 

 64 



64 .. 74 



64 

 6 



64 



6 

 6 



7 

 .. 7 

 .. 7 

 ii 74 

 .1 64 



CORN WITH SUCKERS REMOVED AND NOT REMOVED 



Three varieties of corn sown at the same time, fertilized in the same manner, and 

 given similar cultivation to that of the other corn plots, were grown to test the result 

 of removing suckers from the corn plant in hastening maturity. The suckers were 

 removed from one row of 33 feet July 20, and one row was left without being removed. 

 No advantage was apparently gained by removing the suckers. The crop was pulled 

 August 27, and the yield obtained was as follows : — 



Name of Variety. 



Svckeeed. 



Number 



of 



Ears. 



Peep O'Day 

 Red Cory . . 

 First of All 



38 

 24 

 24 



Weight 



of 



Ears. 



Lbs. 



14 

 11 

 12 



Not Scckered. 



Number 



of 



Ears. 



34 

 34 

 30 



Weight 



of 



Ears. 



Lbs. 



13 

 18 

 17 



