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This White Cap Dent is the variety I mentioned as being the only 

 one that could b-e considered as being thoroughly acclimated. It 

 matured in about 115 days and yielded 72.2 bushels of corn and 

 3,097 lbs. of fodder per acre. The ears are irregular both in shape 

 and color and the cob is large. 



Early Huron Dent matured in 115 days. It yielded 76.6 bushels 

 corn and 3,041 lbs. fodder per acre. It promises to be a valuable 

 variety with us. This is a well known variety of yellow dent corn 

 grown in New York state. The seed was grown by the Joseph 

 Harris Seed Company of Coldwater, Monroe Co., New York. Cold- 

 water is about 20 to 30 miles south of Lake Ontario. 



Pride of the North seems almost identified with Early Huron 

 Dent, though the yield is much less. However, it was not grown 

 with the others and so the yields are scarcely comparable. It 

 matured in 115 days and yielded at the rate of 19.1) bushels corn and 

 2,086 lbs. fodder per acre. 



The Yellow Flint is a typical eight rowed yellow flint variety. 

 It matured in 115 days and yielded 77.2 bushels per acre, and 2,086 

 lbs. of fodder. This 'is the best yield of corn of the varieties that 

 ripened, but it is accompanied by a very low yield of fodder. This 

 corn has too large a cob and yields only about 76 per cent, shelled 

 corn. Seed was grown by J. M. Welch, Orangeville, Columbia Co., 



Penna. 



The next variety we call J. A. Beck corn, because we procured 

 the seed from Mr. J. A. Beck, White Deer, Union Co., Penna. It 

 is a very light yellow dent corn with a white cap. It is almost white 

 in fact.' It is of a larger type than any of the preceding varieties 

 and later in maturing. The period of maturity is given here as 

 125 days, though really some ears never fully ripened even though 

 the grains dried out enough to keep. The cobs of this variety are 

 too large and the ears are too conical. The yield is 88.2 bushels 

 corn per acre and 4,537 lbs. fodder. 



Neither of the last two varieties matured. Their length of season 

 is marked as over 130 days. These varieties actually stood for about 

 130 days and they were caught by a slight frost. During the last 

 two weeks the nights were cold and the corn ripened little. I should 

 add that our first frost was later than usual. The seed of the 

 variety called Dunlap was grown by W. S. Dunlap, Walnut Bottom, 

 Cumberland Co., Penna. 



The Reid's Yellow Dent seed was secured, I think, from C. D. 

 Dobbins and Sons. Cedarville, Ohio. Dunlap yielded 85 1 bushels of 

 corn and 5,168 lbs. fodder. Reid's Tield-ed 76.6 bushels corn and 

 5,459 lbs. fodder. As neither of these varieties were ripe, these 

 figures do not mean much. 



I gave the sources of the seed chiefly to call your attention to 

 the effect on the variety of the bringing into a new locality. The 

 season with us was marked by the wet weather in May which de- 

 layed the planting, then the drought in August and Se])tember and 

 the lateness of the first frost. Most of the localities from which the 

 seed came experienced the same conditions. In nearly every case 

 the varieties brought from a distance required a longer season at 

 the Station than the same variety required in the locality from 

 which the seed came. Thus the Early Huron Dent, the Harris 

 Company wrote us, matured in 100 to 105 days with them iu 1908. 



