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I had some corn from thirty miles southwest of Savannah, 

 known as the "Maryland, White." I planted that at Charles City 

 and it ripened well and it produced very well, and two or three 

 stalks per hill. The corn raised there is generally white. It is 

 not what we call large corn, but a medium sized corn and every 

 single ear of corn raised in that country is equal to the very best 

 seed corn we have here that we can pick out for our seed corn. 



Me. Wallace: Mr. Chairman: It would not be hardly best 

 to let the statement made by Mr. Waller go without explanation. 

 The percentage of barren stalks, as has been reported by the paper, 

 is correct, but it was so unusual that we asked the parties to 

 make another count, and owing to that, it reduced the amount 

 — I do not remember just the amount — but my recollection is 

 that the percentage was a little over ten per cent on the second 

 count, in which great care was taken to have it accurate. 



Mr. D. B. Nims : Mr. Chairman : I would like to hear some- 

 thing in regard to maintaining the standard of corn. I have not 

 had in a great many years trouble in starting corn, but when it 

 comes to forming the ear I lack a great deal of having a full 

 stand of corn, a great many times having only two or two and 'a 

 quarter ears to the hill. Two to two and a quarter is about as 

 much as I have been able to succeed in getting. It is not be- 

 cause of the weakness of the seed, but is because after it has got 

 up to 16 or 18 inches in height it dies off. I think that is largely 

 the cause of producing the barren stalk. In years like this while 

 T have not gone through and counted, I think in one field that we 

 husked we would not find one-half of one per cent barren stalks ; 

 in fact, we do not find any; but in looking through the field we 

 occasionally found a weak stalk that had no ear, with either a suck- 

 er or one stalk alongside, which overshadowed and prevented it 

 succeeding. If some will tell me how to prevent the destruction 

 of the stand, we will have no trouble in procuring the starting off. 



The Chairman: Professor Holden, can you not answer the 

 gentleman's quetion ? 



Professor Holden : Mr. Chairman : He has certainly sug- 

 gested a very important question, and one I know causes all of 

 us a good many heartaches when we see our harvesting going to 



