376 NKW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



EXPERIMENTS WITH SWEET CORN. 



Fourteen blocks of cross-bred sweet corn were grown upon the 

 tw(» acres of tbo (Jardcn projK'r, care being' taken to plant along- 

 side of earli other tJie early and late-blooming crosses in such a 

 manner as to ])revent inter-breeding. The earliest kinds were 

 planted tir-t ami near opposite ends of the Garden. 



" Malakhov-Premo "~ Malamo." 



A bl(K*k of forty-two (G by 7) hills of "^Malamo" sweet corn was 

 planted in series II. n|X)n April 25th, and a second patch of forty 

 (r> by S) ])ills ujx)n April 30th. The weather conditions for early 

 growth wore so unfavorable that these two lots of corn appeared 

 the same in all i-espects throughout the season and are treated as 

 one. The results here and elscAvhere lead to the opinion that the 

 growth perio<l of sweet corn depends largely upon the time when 

 the see<l is ]>lantwl. In other words, corn planted upon May 15th 

 will yield table ears in much shorter time than when planted three 

 weeks earlier. In this particular case, one block gave table ears 

 in seventy-six and the other in seventy-one days, and, had there 

 l>een a tbird and later planting, the time probably would have 

 been still more shortened. 



The tagging of the stalks began with the first apj^earance of the 

 ■ tip of the tassf'l uik.u June 20th and closed upon July 2d, a period 

 of blfH^m of nearly two weeks. The tassels, usually tinged with 

 pink, were .K^-easionally green, and the silk (which came two or 

 three days later than the tassel) varied from red through pink to 

 green. Tlie irreen tassel M-as associated wath green silk, that is, 

 the cH.lor when ])resent showe<l itself throughout the plant, the 

 stalk Iwing sometimes tinged with purple. The "Premo" parent 

 shows similar range of color in the plants. 



Tlie stalks varifHl somcAvhat in size, there being a fcAV of the 

 .small, slen.l.M- tyi>e of the ''Malakhov," and these, usually among 

 the first to blfKMu, were regarded as undesirable and at once dis- 

 r-anle.I. Tlie majority of the plants avei-aged five feet and some 

 reaehe.| tbe height .,f six feet. A set of measurements was taken 

 npr.n tbe growth of stalks, after the tassel showed its tip, with the 

 followiiiir results : 



