nss \i:\V Jl'llSKY ACIMCULTUKAL COLLEGE 



jiiiik. Till- liiiu- wlu'ii tars wore taken for testing upon the table 

 was not nvordt'd, l>ut the first ripe cars for seed were gathered 

 August i:;tli — that is, ninety-one days after planting. The final 

 harvfst. was made Septcniher :.'Sth, when sixty ears were secured, 

 ten «»f vvliich were with a majority of tlie grains dark and all were 

 somcwliat mixed. Tlie plants and tlirir ears indicate that much 

 seleetidii is net'ded to develop a sort that will be uniform in the 

 (Iwired qualities. There is a tendency toward flintiness in some 

 of tJio grains that Jieeds to be especially considered. 



"GOLDEN BANTAM " CROSSES OF SWEET CORN. 



Tlu- "Golden IJantani'' (-3^), as might be inferred from the 

 name, is a small variety with yellow grains, usually borne in eight 

 rows, and lias the considerable merit of maturing quite quickly. 

 On account of its unusual color, it marks itself upon any white- 

 variety. This sort was employed as a breeder upon a long list 

 of the leading commercial sorts in 1905, and from the crosses 

 then secured seed was saved, from w^hich the following results 

 have been obtained: 



''Golden Banfam-Esscx Early" (34/29). — A block of forty- 

 five hills of the "Golden Bantam" upon "Essex Early" was grown 

 upon the New Land, and proved to he very early and gave a fair 

 crop of well-shaped eai-s, five samples of which are shown in the 

 upper left-hand corner of Plate III.* 



The "Essejc Early" is a white com, the ears of which are usually 

 more than eight-rowed. The cross, as grown for its first gener- 

 ation the present season, gives a neat, shapely ear, of sufficient 

 .size, with ten or twelve rows and of a quality to warrant its further- 

 growth and selection. From tlie engraving, it may be seen in- 

 distinctly that the ears have a mixture of "white" and "yellow"' 

 grains, the latter making up three-fourths of the total nmuber, as 

 might be expected from the Mendelian law, the yellow in the 

 cr(»«^sed grains showing to the exclusion of the white character 

 present. In short, in ea.-h oar there are one-quarter of pure white 

 and onfvquarter i)ure yellow, and one-half that are half yellow 

 and white, those latter showing as yellow. 



• This set of ears is upon a larger scale than the other three sets in the en- 

 graving. 



