EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 269 



year, July 15th; the stalks were strong, thrifty, although very 

 dwarf, the ears large for size of stalk and of good quality." 

 "It is a good variety; early but small, short ears. It is sweet and 

 productive, medium size grains." "Plant very small, ear me- 

 dium, very productive; flavor good and very early." 



The Study of Color in "Malakosby" Grains. 



The "Malakosby" sweet corn has two quite distinct shades of 

 color to the ears, the one a "straw" and the other has been spoken 

 of as "pinkish." These two shades are not grain characteristics, 

 for the two are not mixed in the same ear ; in other words, the 

 ear is either "straw" or "pink," and the cob partakes of the latter 

 qualities respectively. This peculiarity of two shades of ears is 

 equally present in the "Malamo," which, it is presumed, also 

 obtained it from the same source. 



As seed was needed of the "Malakosby" for further distribu- 

 tion, grains from the "pinkish" ears only were planted in a block, 

 and the following is the result of the three gatherings of the ears : 



September loth, 14 "straw" 7 "pinkish" 



27th, 14 " 4 



October 7th, 61 " 30 " 



Total, 89 " 41 



It is seen that the "straw" ears were two to one of the "pink- 

 ish." This test shows that the two colors are not easily separated. 

 It is desired that a trial be made of growing a block of this corn 

 from the straw-colored grains. 



"Golden Bantam-Country Gentleman" Cross (34/19). 



The plantings of the above cross were made in two plots, widely 

 separated, the one with yellow and the other with white grains, 

 both from four zigzag ears. Furthermore, the twO' plots were di- 

 vided into halves, the one half (sixteen hills) being planted with 

 long grains and the second half alongside with broad grains. As 

 early as August i6th, it was noted that the plants in two rows 



