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flint}'^ and has a fairly uniform golden color. It has been grown 

 largely upon poor upland clay. As grown at Statesboro, its market 

 quality was fully the equal of any grown in the experiment. Weevils 

 were found in practically all of the shucks, but little damage had 

 been done at time of harvesting. 



TINDAL. 



The Tindal corn is a mixture of Marlboro Prolific with a native 

 corn near Manning, S. C, where the variety is being grown. This 

 seed was selected from the gi'ower's field three or four years after 

 the mixture had first been made. The type is mostly that of Marl- 

 boro Prohfic, though there is considerable variation. In the Orange 

 Judd Farmer's national corn test in 1906 this corn took first prize, 

 with 182 bushels per acre. The soil on which this corn was grown 

 is sandy, with sandy clay subsoil near surface. As grown at States- 

 boro, it performed much the same as Marlboro ProUfic. 



WHELCHEL. 



The Whelchel variety of corn was bred and developed at Gaines- 

 ville, Ga., and is the result of crossing at least three varieties, one of 

 which was Boone County Wliite. The original ears used in tliis test 

 were unusually large. The bushel from wliich the 10 ears were 

 taken contained only 64 ears. Much variation is stiU seen in the 

 type. The corn was developed on rich red-clay land. Tliis variety 

 proved poorly adapted to Statesboro conditions. Many ears devel- 

 oped poorly and many of those that did develop rotted in the husk. 

 The market quality was unusually bad, and it was extremely diffi- 

 cult to obtain sufficiently strong germinating seed for the second 

 year's work. The apparently high yield in 1910 was due at least to 

 some extent to the moisture contained in the ears at harvest time. 

 The qualit}^ of the (^orn was very poor. 



WILLIAMSON. 



The Wilhamson corn has been grown and selected near Darlington, 

 S. C, for a good many years, and the type of ear, the kernels, and 

 their rows are unusually uniform. The color, however, is not fixed and 

 varies from nearly white to nearly yellow. In general the kernels 

 are wliite or cream capped, shading into a yellow toward the cob. 

 The cobs are mostly red, but there are some white ones. The vari- 

 ety has been developed on sandy soil with a sandy, clay subsoil, which 

 at present is quite fertile. As grown at Statesboro the ears showed 

 a slight tendency to spoil in the field, but its adaptation seemed to 

 be nearly as good as the native seed, and it had not been greatly 

 damaged by weevils when harvested. 



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