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the female. This introduces the yellow color and the ear selected 

 from the photograph (No. 5) shows that two unit characters 

 are represented, namely, the texture and the color of the grains, 

 and the yellow and the dent being dominant are three-fourths in 

 number and the white and the sweet, recessive, are one-fourth. 

 In shape and length of grain, the ear shown is desirable. 



Plot 7 produced a set of the blend plants of "Pride of Nishua" 

 and the "Country Gentleman," but the sample ear (No. 6) does 

 not show the zigzag character of the mother. This plot grew 

 alongside of one of the "Voorhees Red" and some of the grains 

 are marked with dark color frorri it. Probably, all mixing is thus 

 marked and the original crosses in hand can be kept pure by 

 casting out the grains showing the dark color, which may become 

 the starting point of another line of breeding if so desired. 



Plot 8 contained the "Pride" upon "Old Colony" and the 

 sample ear is thick-set and taper-pointed with the grains irregu- 

 larly placed ; that all the ears are thus marked is doubted. 



Plot 9 was among the latest to mature and suffered most from 

 the uprooting that prevailed. The sample ear is long and some- 

 what like the "Silver Mine" upon the same sweet sort, "Metro- 

 politan." This may prove tO' yield the best shape of ear in the 

 whole set, but the irregular lines of grain are not indicative of 

 good breeding. 



Experiments with Corn upon Smocl< Land. 



The Smock Land, recently received by Rutgers College through 

 the generosity of Dr. J. C. Smock, was not in the best condition 

 for breeding purposes, and the results upon the four acres as- 

 signed to the Botanical Department are far from conclusive in 

 many respects. The area of a trifle more than four acres is in 

 the form of a rectangle, somewhat midway of the whole thirty- 

 five and a half acres and permitted of the growing of a breeding 

 block of corn the whole two hundred feet across one end and 

 small square plots of twenty-five hills along each side a hundred 

 and fifty feet from the other similar patches and something more 

 than this from the corresponding set of plots upon the opposite 

 side of the area. 



