134 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



be necessary to keep it up. With respect to corn that con- 

 tinuous selection would probably have to be made to keep it up, 

 but that would not be a matter of any great difficulty because 

 when this is found to be as high as 14.98, after the variety was 

 established, the seed would be distributed all over the state, 

 and in that way the breed carrying a high ratio of protein 

 would become general, but that, of course, would not obtain 

 upon a breeding plot. There it would be necessary to keep up 

 the strain. 



A Member. Is there any way by which the farmer can 

 select high protein corn, or would he have to have it analyzed 

 in order to tell ? 



Mr. East. In dent corn only, and by that method of cut- 

 ting, and selecting the least portion of floury starch in cutting. 



The President. You know that the dent corn is much 

 softer, and there is a difference in the way cattle take hold of it. 

 You take that flint corn and dent corn and put them together, 

 and they will eat the dent corn before they will eat the other. 

 They will eat the dent corn all up. I believe it would be well 

 for the western people to plant flint corn in the place of dent 

 corn which they raise for cattle. 



Mr. East. I do not beheve that they will in the middle 

 west. In the north middle west where they have a climate 

 that is more conformable to northern Connecticut they might, 

 but where they have a shorter season for maturing the flint 

 corn those varieties are planted a good deal. That is especially 

 so in Wisconsin. 



Secretary Brown. Is there any relation between the 

 protein content and the total yield? That is to say, if a row 

 should yield, we will say fifty, and the row opposite to it 

 should yield fifty-five bushels, would it be likely to contain a 

 larger protein content? 



Mr. East. There seems to be no correlation in that 

 respect at all. That is, we cannot select for the two character- 

 istics, yield and high protein content, without knowing that 

 they are by nature antagonistic. 



