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Iredell farms. The ears are rather below the mediiun in size. It, 

 with Boone County White (Tenn.), Iowa Silver Mine, Learning Yel- 

 low and Riley's Favorite, were the earliest maturing varieties at the 

 Iredell farm this year. 



McMaclfins Gourd Seed, in shelled corn, was nineteenth and fif- 

 teenth at Edgecombe and twentieth and twenty-eighth at Iredell 

 in 1904 and 1905, respectively. Medium in date of maturity. 



Currituck, which is gTown rather extensively in some sections of 

 the Piedmont Plateau of North Carolina, ranked in 1904 and 1905 

 twenty-second and twenty-third, and eleventh and twenty-second at 

 the Edgecombe and Iredell farms, respectively. • Its ears are large 

 and contain a medium high percentage of cob to grain. The results 

 at the Iredell farm this year indicate it to be a rather late maturing 

 variety. 



Shellem's Prolific ranked at Iredell seventeenth in 1904 and 

 tenth in 1905. At Edgecombe this year it stood in nineteenth place. 

 It has a small ear and is early when grown in western North Carolina. 



Eureka, a white corn, ranked in this year's tests in twelfth place 

 at Edgecombe and twenty-sixth at Iredell. It has a comparatively 

 high percentage of cob to grain. 



Hickory King, from Tennessee-grown seed, ranked ninth in 1901, 

 sixth in 1903 and 1904 at the Edgecombe farm, and thirteenth in 

 1903 and sixth in 1905 at Iredell; while from Virginia-grown 

 seed it stood tenth and eleventh, respectively, at the Edgecombe and 

 Iredell farms this year. This variety has small ears with broad, shal- 

 low grains. It is a prolific com. 



Pool's occupied fifth place in 1902 and 1905 and eighth in 1903 

 at Edgecombe, and ninth in 1903 and eighth in 1905 at Iredell. 

 It has a rather small ear, and the results at Iredell this year point 

 to its being rather a prolific variety. 



Thomas' Improved ranked fourteenth in 1904 and fourth in 1905 

 at Iredell and third in 1905 at the Edgecombe farm. It is a 

 vigorous, ranlv -growing variety that matures rather late. 



Peele's Prolific stood in this year's tests eighteenth and seventeenth 

 at the Edgecombe and Iredell farms, respectively. 



American Queen at the Iredell farm occupied third place. 



Native, Edgecombe County seed, ranked this year at our farm in 

 that locality in twentieth place, while native seed from Iredell County 

 at the Iredell farm produced corn ranking in twenty-ninth place. 



CORRELATION OF CHARACTERS OF VARIETIES OF CORN. 



One of the purposes of our detailed study of varieties of corn, 

 exhibited in Tables I, III and IV, is to ascertain what characters, 

 being mutually helpful and hence conducive of greater yields, may 

 be expected to be found combined in the same variety, and what ones, 

 being generally antagonistic, seldom or never occur in the same plant 



