926 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



of corn, oats, winter wheat, soy beans, and cowpeas comlncted by farmers 

 in I'.KHi, when sets of seed of varieties of these crops were sent to nearly 600 

 applicants, representing 88 of the 92 counties in the State. 



The number of tests of varieties of corn was 453, of which 409 consisted of 

 5 varieties each, selected by the station according to the adaptability to the 

 sections where they were to be tested. For this purpose the State was divided 

 into 12 sections, 1 and 2 constituting the extreme northern portion of the 

 State and 11 and 12 the extreme southern portion. The object was simply 

 to compare the 5 varieties under the same condition without any special effort 

 to secure large yields. The average yields and the order of ripening in sections 

 1 and 2 were as follows: Early Yellow Dent 00.8, Cook Yellow Dent 59.9, 

 Dumi Yellow Dent 60.3, Cook White Dent 60.1, and Funk 90 Day 64.9 bu. per 

 acre. Early Yellow Dent ripened about 10 days earlier than Funk 90 Day. 

 In section 3 the order of ripening and average yields were Early Yellow Dent 

 44.5, Funk 90 Day 47.5, Leaming 53.5, Reid Yellow Dent 55.5, and Silver Mine 

 50.4 bu. per acre. The difference in ripening between Early Yellow Dent and 

 Silver Mine was about 2 weeks. In section 4 all the varieties ripened at about 

 the saiue time, with the exception of Early Yellow Dent, which was a few days 

 earlier than the rest. The average yields secured were as follows : Reid Yellow 

 Dent 62.4, Leaming 60.8, Silver Mine 58.5, Golden Eagle 55.7, and Early 

 Yellow Dent 54.7 bu. per acre. In section 5 Reid Yellow Dent matured first, 

 being followed in the order mentioned by Riley Favorite, Pride of the Prairie, 

 Leaming, and Boone County White, the difference between the first and the 

 last named variety being about 2 weeks. Boone County White gave an 

 average yield of 56.3, Reid Yellow Dent 55.8, Leaming 53.2, Riley Favorite 

 52.3, and Pride of the Prairie 50.4 bu. per acre. In section 6 Boone County 

 White ripened on the average about 8 days later than the other varieties. 

 The average yields were as follows : Boone County White 75.5, Leaming 70.4, 

 Reid Yellow Dent 70, Golden Dent 68.6, and Riley Favorite 67.3 bu. per acre. 

 In section 7 the order of ripening, beginning with the earliest variety, was 

 Reid Yellow Dent, Golden Dent, Leaming, Pride of Indiana, and Boone Comity 

 White, with the average yields 01,1, 57.2, 61.6, 66.6, and 65.6 Im. per acre, 

 respectively. Reid Yellow Dent ripened about 2 weeks earlier than Boone 

 County White. The order of maturity in section 8. with the average yields 

 of the varieties, was as follows : Reid Yellow Dent 50.8, Golden Dent 47,3, 

 Johnson County Yellow 48.9, Pride of Indiana 58, and Johnson County White 



62.3 bu. per acre. Reid Yellow Dent and Golden Dent ripened practically at 

 the same time. In section 9 Johnson County Yellow ripened first, followed in 

 the order given by Gold Standard, Pride of Indiana, A'ogler White Dent, and 

 Johnson County White, the difference between the first and the last being 

 about 10 days. The average yields of these varieties ranged from 62.1 bu. per 

 acre for Pride of Indiana to (!5.1 bu. for Johnson County White. In sec- 

 tion 10 Reid Yellow Dent was nI)out 12 days earlier than .lohnson County 

 White. In this section the range of average yields was from 57.4 bu. for Reid 

 Yellow Dent to <)7.2 bu. per acre for Johnson County White. Yogler White 

 and Pride of Indiana both yielded 00.1 bu. per acre, while Gold Standard gave 



63.4 bu. In section 11 the yellow varieties ripened about a week earlier than 

 the white varieties, while in section 12 little difference was observed. In sec- 

 tion 11 the average yields iier acre ranged from 48.8 bu. for Gold Standard to 

 55.9 bu. for .Johnson County White, and in section 12 from .53,2 bu. for Pride 

 of Indiana to .56.2 bu. per acre for .Tohnson County White. 



For the purpose of making variety tests with winter wheat the State was 

 divided approximately into the northern, middle, and southern sections. In 

 the northern section the average yield ranged per acre from 26.3 bu. for Mealy 



