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later than 'Bantam;" the ear is much larger than 'Bantam,' 

 about 80% of the grains yellow, quality excellent, very sweet." 

 "Flavor good, plant short, all ears early." "A promising cross; 

 grains of good quality." 



Breeding Plot of Sweet Corn — Smock Land. 



The whole eastern end of the Smock Land was used for the 

 breeding of sweet corn and three breeder rows extended length- 

 wise of the plot, that is, 200 feet and contained 50 hills each. 

 These breeder rows are numbered 4, 8 and 12, and, at right 

 angles to them, were the 50 rows each consisting of 12 hills as 

 follows: I, 2, 3, (Br.), 5, 6, 7, (Br.), 9, 10, 11, (Br.), 13, 14, 

 15. "Voorhees Red" occupied Row 4; "Mexican" long flint. 

 Row 8, and yellow grains of "Golden Bantam-Stowell's Ever- 

 green," Row 12. 



Consideration of the Breeders. 



Row 4, as previously stated, was planted with the "Voorhees 

 Red" that crosses of it upon the fifty white sweet sorts might 

 be secured. The "Voorhees" is a variety that originated by breed- 

 ing the "Black Mexican" (a kind of very superior quality but 

 having a dark color when ready for the table that is objection- 

 able), upon the "Egyptian," another standard variety of the 

 white group. The combination that was secured by selection has 

 dark red mature grains and, at the time when ready. for the 

 table, are of an attractive pink color. With the hope of securing 

 some combinations that might be an advance on either parent, it 

 was particularly in mind to determine how this red sort would 

 blend its color with the white varieties. Some have the opinion 

 that it might not act as did its ancestor, the "Black Mexican," 

 but instead the cross would show two shades of color, or pos- 

 sibly the result would be a black-colored grain. In other words, 

 there was a twofold reason for making the "Voorhees" a breeder, 

 namely, the improvement that might possibly come of it, and, 

 secondly, the hope of light upon the behavior of a unique colored 

 sort that resulted from a combination of a black and white parent. 



