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The Bulletin 



The Granville Test Farm, 



The Granville Farm is located in the northeastern portion of the 

 Piedmont section about one mile southwest of Oxford. The soil of 

 this farm is of the Durham Sandy Loam type. The plat used for the 

 com variety tests is low in fertility, though it furnishes a fair repre- 

 sentative of the soils of this section. 



The varieties and results of this test are included in Table VIII. 



At this farm the varieties ranged in yield between 19.4 and 30.4 

 bushels of shelled corn per acre, a difference of 11 bushels between the 

 highest and lowest yielding variety. Tests have not been made at this 

 farm a sufficient number of years to determine the varieties best suited to 

 the section. 



The Edgecombe Test Farm. 



The Edgecombe Farm is located in the upper western portion of the 

 Coastal i)lain, about seven miles southeast of Rocky Mount. The soil 

 used for the corn variety test is of the Norfolk Sandy Loam type. 

 Although the rainfall was somewhat less than normal the past season has 

 been unusually good for corn growing in tliis section. 



