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Then it began to fail rapidly and never produced ears. The best 

 plants never grew taller than three feet. Leaf hoppers were 

 abundant, but a field of Cuban corn adjoining this and planted 

 on the .^anie day grew to an average height of six feet and pro- 

 duced a good yield of ears. 



GUAM CORN. 



This variety has been grown very successfully on the Island 

 of Kauai for some years. It is a large kerneled white variety. 

 Two plantings of this corn were made on the college farm, one 

 on December 20 and the other on January 4. Both fields showed 

 the sam.e characteristics. Both fields had leaf hoppers present, 

 but only about 5/10% of the stalks showed abnormal condi- 

 tions in manner of growth. On the college farm this variety 

 attained a height of only five feet, but the wind conditions 

 during the entire growing season were rather unfavorable ; 

 heavy winds often following rains which first loosened the soil, 

 and the corn withstood these adverse conditions very well. The 

 December 20 planting matured in 125 days and yielded 24.1 

 bushels, and the January 4 planting matured in 129 days and 

 3delded 25.2 bushels on an acre basis. The husks tend to open 

 before the ears are mature, permitting injury by birds and by 

 the larva of the grain weevil, and the plants showed a tendency 

 to send up as many as four or five suckers at the base of each 

 plant. However, these are minor factors compared with the 

 tendency of many varieties not to produce anything, and Guam 

 corn must be considered one of the good lowland varieties of 

 corn for Hawaii. 



CUBAN CORN. 



Cuban corn has been the outstanding corn of all the varieties 

 that we tried on the college farm. The original seed was ob- 

 tained from Cuba through the Crenshaw Bros. Seed Co. of 

 Tampa, Florida, in January, 1917. As corn belt standards go it 

 would have to be considered an inferior appearing corn. The 

 kernels are rather shallow;, some are dented and others show a 

 decidedly flinty character. The color is dark yellow, which 

 meets with approval, for the Honolulu market is decidedly par- 

 tial to a yellow corn. The average weight of the original ears 

 was .46 lb. each, consisting of 77% kernels and 23% cobs. The 

 following table show^s the results we have obtained with the dif- 

 ferent trials of this variety. 



