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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Variety. 



Whore Obtained. 



Bassano... 



Early Blood. ... 



Long Blood 



Early Blood 



Sugar 



Bassano 



Long Blood 



Iinpi-oved Blood 



Early Blood 



Dark Egyptian 



Long Blood 



Long Blood 



Long Blood 



Early Blood 



Early Blood 



Early Blood 



Dark Egyptian 



Bassano 



Early Blood 



Dark Egyptian 



Ferry's Dark Blood 



Long Blood 



Long Blood 



Early Blood 



Early Blood. 



S. B. Mann 



Peter Henderson 

 Joseph Harris. .. 



a <« 



a a 



B. K. Bliss...!!". 



J. J. H. Gregorj'. 



Lj'man 



James Vick 



Briggs 



VVni. Carson 



J. M. Thorborn.. 



J. B.Root. 



S. B. Mann.. 



D. M.Ferry 



David Landreth. 



Shaker's. 



I. Tillinghast... 



Mode of 

 Testing. 



D.imp paper 





(k 



ki 



Ik 



Per cent 

 Germinated. 



Large. 



100 



90 



100 



80 



60 



60 



60 



60 



100 



100 



100 



80 



100 



100 



80 



50 



90 



00 



100 



100 



80 



lOU 



00 



100 



60 



Small. 



90 

 80 

 70 

 50 

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Experiments in Teding Indian Corn. 



Iq the spring of 1881 the seed corn in some parts of the State was found to be 

 poor. Accordingly samples which had been saved for seed, were obtained from 

 various sources throughoutthe State, and tested in different ways for the purpose 

 of ascertaining its germinating powers. The following are the results obtained : 



