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ears of the several varieties to rot, unless, perhaps, the earlier ones 

 were less affected; however, this may have been due to season. The 

 vigoroiisness in growth, prolificacy, largeness of ears, percentages of 

 grain and stover, yields, etc., of all varieties tested at the dirterent 

 farms are shown in Tables I, II, HI, and IV. 



At the Transylvania farm a shrinkage test was made of the ears of 

 the different varieties when stored in the barn in burlap bags for 

 66 days. These results are on page 11. 



By consulting Table II, it will be seen that the difference in yield 

 of shelled corn per acre, on the different farms during the period cov- 

 ered by the tests between the variety yielding the liigTiest and the one 

 the lowest in the individual tests have ranged all the way from 6.2 to 

 26.6 bushels of shelled corn at the Edgecombe iarm during the past 

 seven years, with the number of varieties in the different tests varying 

 from eight to thirty-two; from 7.7 to 14 bushels at Red Springs, 

 when using nine varieties for each of two years; from 12.1 to 13.5 

 bushels during four years at Iredell, where from nineteen to thirty- 

 one varieties were employed, from 8.8 to 14 bushels at the Experiment 

 Station farm during four years with the number of varieties ranging 

 from nineteen to twenty-four; and a difference of 24.8 bushels at 

 Transylvania during the past year, where thirty-four varieties were 

 planted. 



Tables III and IV will be found to contain much valuable data in 

 plain, compact form relative to the different characters of corn when 

 grown under widely varying soil and climatic conditions. A careful 

 study of these tables should be made by every corn-gTOwing reader. 



Table II also gives the average standing of all the varieties, at each 

 farm, that have been tested continuously since the beginning of the 

 work in the different localities. The varieties which have averaged 

 the highest yields of shelled com at the different farms are: At 

 Edgecombe during seven years, Cocke's Prolific, Weekley's Improved, 

 Sanders' Improved, and Holt's Strawberry; at Eed Springs during 

 two years, N'ative, Cocke's Prolific, Holt's Strawberry, and Week- 

 ley's Improved; at Iredell, Weekley's Improved, Sanders' Improved, 

 Cocke's Prolific, and Boone County White; and at Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Cocke's Prolific, Sanders' Improved, Teaming Yellow, Reid's 

 Yellow Dent, and Weekley's Improved. 



SOME NOTES ON VARIETIES OF CORN TESTED IN 1906.-^ 



Cocke's Prolific, from Edgecombe-grown seed, ranked second in 

 1900, 1901, and 1904, and first in 1902, 1903, 1905, and 1906, at 

 the Edgecombe farm; at Eed Springs it stood fifth in 1900 and third 

 in 1901 ; at Iredell, from Edgecombe-gTOwn seed, sixth in 1904, first 



^ The basis of rank in these notes is according to the yield of bushels of shelled com per acre. 



