420 Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



It will be observed that these results show a gain in numbers 

 of good and poor ears, also in their weight. An average increase 

 of fifteen per cent of good ears and twenty-six per cent of poor 

 ears by weight. 



In this experiment all short and poorly formed ears were 

 counted as poor ears, although the corn was practically all stMind. 

 AU sets pi-oducing silk without grain were counted as abortive 

 ears. 



As the experiment of removing tassels from corn has been 

 made at several expeilment stations with varjang results a gen- 

 eral summary of the results to date may be of value in drawing 

 conclusions on the effect of the practice. The results of the 

 various experiments made at different experiment stations may be 

 summed up as follows: 



