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A Member: Do you shell it all at the small end? 



PROF. MENGES: No, I do not. 



PROF. SURFACE: Professor, would you just break those two 

 cars across, so that wo may see how they compare? Let us see 

 the cross sections. 



PROF. MENGES: I would like to weigh these two ears of corn 

 and shell them, and then you would get down to something definite. 



A Member: Which has the most feed value? 



PROF. MENGES: I haven't got to that point yet; I will take that 

 up later, in its order. 



MR. WAYCHOFF: In presenting those two ears of corn to this 

 audience, to judge which is the best corn, you have only given them 

 an opportunity to judge on one point and that was simply as to the 

 butt end of the ears. Now is that a fair impression to leave with 

 this audience, by giving them only an opportunity to judge from 

 that one point? 



PROF. MENGES: I did not judge it at all; I left it to the audi 

 ence. In my estimation, that one point would gain my opinion. 



The meeting adjourned to 7.30 P. M. 



7.30 P. M., Thursday, May 25, 1905. 



The meeting was called to order, with P. S. Fenstermaker, of 

 Allentown, Pa., in the Chair. 



The Committee on Fruit and Vegetables presented the following 

 report : 



We, the undersigned Committee appointed by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Hon. N. B. Critchfield, to examine the fruit, vegetable 

 and grain exhibit at.the spring meeting of the State Board of Agri- 

 culture- at West Chester, Pa., May 23 to 26, 1905, desire to submit 

 the following report: 



The apples exhibited were a plate of Stayman Wine Sap, grown 

 by Dr. J. H. Funk, of Boyertown; Decker Seedling, grown by Henry 

 W. Northup, of Glenburn; Langdorf Seedling and Gibbs, grown by 

 J. B. Johnston, of New Wilmington. The apples were exceptionally 

 fine and well preserved without cold storage. The quality of the 

 Stayman Wine Sap is recognized as one of the leading apples in 

 quality and is wonderfully adapted for Eastern Pennsylvania. The 

 Decker Seedling is especially recommended as a promising new 

 variety. 



