404 NEW JERSEY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 



-Uolikn. IkLuiaui' upon "Godleman-Mexican" (34//19/99). 

 This double cross was gi-own by W. T. Woerner, who reported that 

 it was "quite prolific, grwd-sized ears, good table quality, althougli 

 the test was not under the very best conditions." Four ears were 

 sent to the Experiment Station, all of satisfactory size and shape-^ 

 two eight and two twelve-rowed. There were some variations in 

 the deepness of die yellow, one eight-rowed ear being a dark yellow 

 while a twelve-rowed one was pale amber. Much selection wiM be 

 needed to fix the color and remove the eight-rowed ears, if it is 

 desired. 



"Earliest Table-Early Sumise" (87/86). A cross was secured 

 in 1904 of '^Earliest Table" (87) upon "Early Sunrise" (86), 

 and the flint gi-ains were planted last year, yiehling ears that had 

 three-quarters of the gi-ains flint and one-quarter wrinkled. The 

 latter sweet grains were grown in isolation the present season by 

 ^Ir. J. P. Nelson, who, in sending eighteen mature ears, submits 

 the following notes: "Stalks short, ears small, one and two to 

 the stalk ; ripens early ; quality good, but only for a short time^ 

 and must be used at the right time or it will get too old." 



As both parents were of the small type of early plants, with 

 white grains and eight-rowed ears, the chief point of difference 

 was the character of the kernel. A comparison of the ears of this 

 generation of the cross with ears saved at the time the cross wa& 

 made, confinns the first impression that some of the former are a 

 blend of the sweet and flint. Of the eighteen ears, five show 

 combinations of the two characters, namely, flint and sweet, and 

 of these three have it more pronounced than the others. 



An ordinary sweet grain is uniformly wrinkled and has none 

 of the white interior showing through the smooth, plmnp coats, 

 as in the flint kernels. In the present instance, the grains are 

 wrinkled upon the free exterior as the kernel sits in position upon 

 the c()\), through which a white interior is visible, either as a small 

 dot or a longitudinal line. A fully sweet grain, when cut length- 

 wise the narrow way of the kernel, shows no white or starchy 

 ])ortion, M-hile those in question show an area above the embryo — 

 that is, upon the upper side of the grain — that is quite Avhite' with 

 the starch. Other grains of this same blend show the starch more 

 abundantly, and so fill up the interior as to prohibit any more 

 than a slight shrinking at maturity. Grains were not infrequently 

 found with the wrinkles upon one or other of the two halves. 



