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days later. It is but proper to add here that for work which means so 

 much to this vast portion of the State, the station is sadly in need of 

 a larger cleared area. With corn, the question of soil, is no less, and 

 in fact is jjerhaps more important than the question of variety, and of 

 the present cleared area the station has less than six acres whose soil 

 is well adapted for corn. This area is ample for corn breeding ex- 

 periments, but only on condition that the w^ork with other varieties be 

 abandoned, and it would be decidedly unfortunate if this should have 

 to be done. The yields of the plot are shown in the following table: 



Pop-corn. — Some seed of a dwarf and very early variet}' locally known 

 as Tucket, was kindly donated by Judge L. C. Holden of Sault Ste. 

 Marie. The stalks are two feet high, tasseled July 22. silked July 26 

 and the ears were ripe August 23. The kernels are deep yellow, and 

 while very small they expand considerably when popped and are more 

 tender than the large varieties. 



A blue colored variety of much larger size was obtained from the same 

 source. The stalks were 5 feet high, tasseled August 2, silked August 

 10 and the ears were ripe September 20. The bulk of the kernels when 

 popped is nearly as large as that of the Rice variety, and the quality is 

 somewhat better. 



MISCELIi^VNEOUS FIELD CROPS. 



Field Beans in 1905. — A plot which had coarse manure plowed under 

 was used for the Swedish Brown variety, the seed of which had previously 

 ripened here. The beans were planted May 31, the intention being to 

 use one-half upon an unmanured plot, but owing to a misunderstanding 

 all the available seed was used upon the manured plot. It is still an 

 open question, therefore, whether these beans which blossomed first, 

 even though planted four days later than the others, did so for being an 

 earlier variety rather than on account of the heat from the decomposing 

 manure which induced a more rapid growth. Though the rows were 

 two feet apart, the rank growing vines completely covered the ground 

 soon after they started to blossom and held their leaves much longer 

 than the other varieties, thus suggesting that although all the pods 

 ripened evenly during this test, they might not do so under like condi- 

 tions during less favorable seasons. The vines blossomed July 16 and 

 were heavily loaded with pods when harvested during the latter part of 

 September. Pressure of other work prevented threshing until the fore- 

 part of December, and the beans were in prime condition, having been 

 kept on a well-ventilated floor. The plot which was 12x90 feet gave a 



