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''Mexican-Potter's Excelsior' (09/60).— The block of ground 

 given to this cross was of the poarest upon the New Land, and 

 being phinted late (June 26th) the results were meagre. 



"Blexican-Qumcy Market" (99/74). — This cross was planted 

 June Otli and made a block easily recogiiized by its abundant 

 suckers, and later, because of the strong tendency to form twin 

 and triplet ears. A photograph of the fruit-bearing portion of 

 fiA'c of the stalks was taken and are shown in the upper part of 

 Plate II. The ears are long, slender and usually eight-rowed, A 

 test of the table quality was overlooked until the ears were too 

 mature. At harvest time seventy-seven good ears were gathered, 

 ■seventy-one of w'hich had white and six pink cobs. There were six 

 plants that showed, by their much-mixed ears, that the parent 

 grains bore dark "blood," and this caused a general slight mixing 

 of the whole crop. 



"Mexican-Triumpli" (99/88). — ^This cross was planted late 

 (June 26th), upon poor soil, and only seventeen good-sized ears 

 ^vere 'iecured, all eight-rowed. Four showed a half or more of 

 •dark grains and one of them was quite flat, with the two belts of 

 four rows each separated from each other. 



"Mexican-Garwood" (90/94). — There were thirty hills of this 

 cross planted late (June 26th) to escape mixing with the '"Mexi- 

 'Can-Malakhov" cross grown near by. The crop was ripe October 

 8th and before any frost had come. The harvest was a good one 

 and the quality superior. Nineteen of the fifty-nine of the best 

 ears that were harvested showed a large percentage of dark grains 

 iind forty had only a few dark kernels. While all visible precau- 

 tions were taken to select pure white grains for planting, it seem-^ 

 evident that practically one-third of them carried dark "blood." 

 Of these nineteen that were with half and more of dark grains 

 eight were with eight rows of kernels like the "Mexican" type, 

 while of the forty wdiich were from pure white "blood," but crossed 

 upon by the dark pollen of neighboring plants the present season, 

 there were only eight ears of the "Mexican" type. In other words, 

 there was a larger percentage of the "Gai-wood" type among the 

 white ears than among the ears that were evidently from mixed 

 seed. 



"Mexicari-MaJal-hov" (99/95).— This block was planted May 

 14th and made a fine stand of medium-sized plants, which lx)r© 

 stravz-colored tassels and green silks, occasionally tinged with 



