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By selbeting the wliito grains and planting them in isolation — 

 that is, ont of reach of other conis — the white strain of the above 

 •cross would be at once established. Upon "the other hand, the 

 yellow grains, jilanted by themselves, would have a total of one- 

 third of its blood of the white strain obscured by the yellow, and, 

 in the next crop, woidd come to light to the extent of one grain 

 in nine, or 11.12 per cent, of the whole. 



By growing the yellow grains of the first crop from the cross 

 in pairs far from any other corn (to prevent the weakness that 

 would come from growing a single isolated plant) , one might 

 ■chance to get a pair of pure yellow plants which, when thus bred 

 together, "would give at once solid, yellow ears, free from the ad- 

 mixture of the white ''blood." 



''Golden Bantam-Premier" (34/70). — This cross is similar to 

 the last mentioned, but with the plants stronger, of greater vigor 

 «nd decidedly more productiveness. There are several points of 

 diiference which come to the surface as the crosses are watched 

 from week to week. In the present case, the suckers were abund- 

 ant and the tassels straw-colored and the silk pink or pinkish (not 

 green), quite the opposite of the "Bantam-Essex" cross, where the 

 tassels were red or reddish, and the silks usually green. The point 

 that commends the '"Bantam-Premier" cross is its large nmnber 

 •of twin ears, two of which are shown in the plate near the upper 

 right-hand corner (1 and 2) of the engraving. They are neces- 

 sarily smaller than ears borne singly, a sample of which is shown 

 upon the right (3), and closely approach the desired type for a 

 twelve-rowed ear. The block of fortv-five hills has vielded liber- 

 ally and this seed is offered for testing, both of the white and the 

 yellow grains, distributed separately. 



''^Golden Bantam-Banana" (34/6). — This cross is between two 

 widely differing varieties, the '"Banana" being one of the "zigzag- 

 shoepeg" kinds (perhaps most familiarly known by the "Country 

 Oentleman"), and from the time the plants were knee-high a 

 gi'eat range of variation was apparent. As the weeks passed, cer- 

 tain stalks, still small, flowered, and the ears were well under way 

 before other stalks in the same hill were in bloom. A count showed 

 fifty-eight of the small early stallvs and eighty of the tall later sort. 

 The small stalks produced an early crop of ears, a sample of which 

 is shown at 1 in the group of five ears in the lower left-hand comer 

 of Plate III. The greater number of stalks that matured later 



