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a very promising variety for early ; two to three ears to a stalk 

 and good eating quality." ''It is fine, twoi ears to a stalk and n 

 rank gTOwer. It is the earliest sweet corn I have ever had." ''It 

 is the eiarliest I have had and the nicest." "The com is a good 

 cropper as each stalk has two ears." "I planted the 'Malakliov- 

 Premo' corn on the 21st of April and had corn ready for the table 

 on the 4th of July. Am much pleased with it." "Ct>rn has 

 already been tested by my family, only sixty-eight days planted 

 and eaten. I think very much of it." "Should prove a useful 

 early commercial table corn." "Is earlier than any variety we 

 ever planted." "Ears Avere well filled." "Appears very pro- 

 ductive." "Every grain sprouted and gTcw rapidly ; it is a sweet 

 and desirable early corn." "Has done nicely and given good 

 satisfaction. Stalks small but mostly give two fair-sized ears, 

 well formed and filled out with kernels to the point Quality 

 good." "It is fine — two ears to a stalk and a rank grower. It 

 is the earliest sweet corn I have ever had and I have tried several 

 kinds." "Good-sized stalks, seven feet high and fair-sized ears, 

 seven, inches long with eight to twelve rows of kernels. Good 

 quality. 'Malakhov' (pure) is, undoubtedly, the earliest sweet 

 corn but too small for market. 'Malamo' is nearly as early (within 

 four or five days) and all right to sell." 



" Malakhov-Cros'by "— " Malakosby." 



The fifty hills of the cross of "Malakhov" upon "Crosby" were 

 planted May 15th. The stand Avas very satisfactory and the plants 

 were stout-stemmed, bearing gi-een broad leaves and giving an 

 appearance, before the tassels came, quite different from the 

 "Malamo." Suckers developed in nearly every hill and were 

 removed from a half of the plants in alternate rows. This re- 

 moval changed the appearance of the hills and the two rows, from 

 which the suckers were removed, were somewhat earlier in matur- 

 ing their ears. The suckers that were permitted to remain were 

 all detasseled as they approached the time of blooming, so as to 

 prevent any fertilization from these earless stalks. 



The ears upon this variety were set low upon the stalks, and, 

 when foi-ming, were with long, slender, leafy tips supplementing 

 the tendencv to excess of foliage elsewhere. ITjwn July 23cl, fine 



