194 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL ' 



In the order of their development, the western half (forty-five 

 hills) of each block deserves first attention here. Following a 

 wet and, therefore, late May, unfavorable for sweet corn, was a 

 dry June, the drought of which lasted beyond the middle of July. 

 Under such conditions and upon a naturally dry soil, the crop 

 was very poor. 



Three of the nine half blocks were occupied with a test of the 

 "Malamo," namely, the color of the grain and flintiness. 



"malamo" — "white" grains. 



The forty-five hills were planted with grains from a single 

 white (straw-colored) ear. Upon August 29th, the poor crop 

 was gathered and of the thirty-eight ears only two showed the 

 pinkish or amber grains. This difference in the shade of the 

 kernel is an ear-character that is present in the "Malamo" and its 

 parent, the "Malakhov." 



"m alamo" — "pinkish" grains. 



The half area of Block 2 was planted with the grains from a 

 single "pinkish" ear and of the fifty-four ears gathered thirty 

 were strongly "pinkish." 



a test in selecting flinty seed continued. 



As stated last year, several kinds of sweet corn have a strong 

 tendency to produce starch in place of sugar and such grains, 

 when mature, dry smooth or nearly so instead of being wrinkled 

 as is characteristic of the best sweet kernels. 



Last year a block of "Malamo" was grown from grains show- 

 ing flintiness selected from among ears that showed all degrees 

 of the condition in question. Af the same time, a similar plot of 

 sixty hills was grown from the sweet or wrinkled grains of the 

 same ears. The results of these two plots were shown in a plate 

 in which it was easy to note that there was a marked reproduction 

 in the ear of the quality of the seed from which it grew. In 

 other words, the ears from the block planted with flinty grains 

 were largely flinty while the sweet grains gave ears that showed, 

 as a rule, very little tendency to produce starch. 



From three of the flinty ears of last year's crop, grains were 

 selected for the continuation of the test. The season was exceed- 

 ingly poor for early corns of the "Malamo" type but such ears 

 as were matured showed without exception a large degree of 

 flintiness. In order that the incli\'idual grains mav be better 



