364 

 Variety test of corn. 



o 



8 

 13 

 ]6 

 11 

 14 



5 



4 



1 

 10 



7 

 12 



2 

 3,9,15 



6 



Variety. 



St. Charles 



Early Mastodon 



Blount Prolific 



Golden Giant 



Ghampion White Pearl.. 



Hickory King 



Yellow Dent 



Peabody 



Experiment Sta. Yellow. 



Jones Pearl Prolific 



Chester County Mammoth 



Mosby Prolific 



Ren fro, average 



Higgins 



Unshucked Grain in 

 corn per ' unshucked 

 bushel. corn 



Founds . 



71 

 73 



74 



77 



72.9 



71.8 



71.8 



82.8 



81.4 



84.3 



77 3 



83.3 



8L.3 



86 4 



.6 

 4 



Per cent. 

 78.8 

 76. 

 75. 

 72 

 76.8 

 78. 

 78 



67 6 



68 8 

 66.4 

 72.4 

 67.2 

 68.8 

 64.8 



Yield of 



shelled corn 



per acre. 



.3 



.7 



Bnshels. 

 25.1 

 22.7 

 22.3 

 21.2 

 21. 

 20. 

 19.8 

 18.2 

 16.9 

 16.8 

 15.9 

 15 5 

 14.7 

 12.2 



In this test St. Charles, a white variety, stood first, fol- 

 lowed by Early Mastodon and Blount Prolific. 



As the Alabama Experiment Station has no seed for sale 

 or distribution, a list is given below of the parties from 

 whom our seed corn was obtained : 



Variety. 



Peabody. 



Mosby Prolific 



Hickory King 



Higgins 



Jones Pearl Prolific 



Blount Prolific 



St. Charles 



Champion White Pearl 



Yellow Dent 



Golden Giant 



Early Mastodon 



Chester County Mammoth. 



Renfro 



Experiment Sta. Yellow. . . . 



Seed From— 



W. B. Tucker, Opelika, Ala. 

 Miss. A.& M.CoL.Starkville, Miss. 

 C. C. L. Dill, Dillburg, Ala. 

 W. J. Higgins, Larkinsville, Ala. 

 H. P. Jones, Herndon, Ga. 



J. C. Sufifern, Voorhies, HI. 



E. G. Packard, Dover, Del. 



(1 (t l( (i 



Ala. Exp't Station, Auburn, Ala. 



The result of a single test of varieties is apt to be mis- 

 leading, especially in such an unusual season as 1896. 

 Much more reliable conclusions are obtainable by taking 

 average results for a large number of tests. 



