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conditions at Alfred. Canada Smut Nose, or possibly King Philip, might 

 do so in favorable seasons. 



TABLE 3. Yields From Corn Varieties Grown at Alfred 



Flint varieties 

 Canada Smut Nose. . . 



Eight-rowed 



Hall's Gold Nugget... 



King Philip 



State Flint 



Twelve-rowed 



Sanf ord White 



Dent varieties 

 Stony Kill White Cap. 

 Michigan Dent 



Ear corn 

 (pounds per acre) 



1910 



1.937 



3.148 

 2,241 

 2,260 

 2,583 



2,502 

 3,228 



X911 



Average 



4.550 

 3.850 

 4,900 

 3.990 

 3.990 

 2,660 



5.250 



3.244 



3.569 

 3. 115 

 2,460 



3.876 



Stover 

 (tons per acre) 



1910 



1. 17 



1.85 

 1 .69 

 1. 17 

 2.30 



•85 

 .81 



1911 



Average 



Experiments at Willard 



The State Hospital Farm at Willard has a clay loam soil that can be 

 made fairly good for corn growing. The elevation above sea level is 610 

 feet. Conditions are more favorable for corn production than at any of 

 the places previously mentioned. 



The season of 1909 was too dry for corn growing. Conditions were 

 better in 19 10, but planting was delayed until three weeks later than usual. 

 Fifty varieties were planted in 1909. The field-cured ears of corn from 

 forty-one of these were harvested and weighed, and ten were selected for 

 further trial in the following season. Good yields of grain and stover 

 were obtained in the 19 10 trial. Four varieties from the 19 10 test and a 

 strain of Leaming corn were tested for silage fodder production in 191 1. 

 The results of this test are given in Table 9. 



The yields of ear corn for 1909 and 19 10 are given below. The experi- 

 ments were in charge of Frank Warne, steward of the hospital. 



Both flint and dent varieties are adapted to conditions at Willard, but 

 very early varieties of flint corn are not so profitable as the larger and later 

 kinds. Stony Kill White Cap and Hall's Gold Nugget seemed to be 

 especially adapted for yields of grain and fodder. King Philip and Pride 

 of the North were also good. The best varieties of dent com should be 

 used for the production of silage corn at this and similar places. 



