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shown, tlie number of ears (Plate * I) is limited to six and the 

 ears with sweet grains from the check plot are omitted in this 

 instance. It will be easy to observe that the number of grains 

 that show any wrinkling is quite limited and a kernel of the 

 normal sweet corn is not to be found. 



In the neighboring plot, planted with sweet "Malamo," the 

 ears were of the ordinary sort. This control plot does not permit 

 the opinion that the conditions under which this crop was grown 

 are to be charged with the development of the flintiness in ques- 

 tion. The tendency to produce starch is neither an ear charac- 

 teristic, as color of the cob, nor a grain character like the color 

 of the grain but takes an intermediate place between them. It 

 remains to be seen whether the acquired flintiness is a character 

 of the same power over sweet sorts as that of long standing in 

 true flint varieties. 



"malakosby" — "white" grains. 



Erom a singh white ear, grains were selected for planting the 

 half of Block 4. In this instance all of tlie ears in the small crop 

 were true to the color of the parent grains. 



"malakosby" — "pinkish" grains. 



A single ear here, as elsewhere in this experiment, furnished 

 all the seed grains and the inferior crop of twenty-two ears were 

 equally divided between those that were "pinkish" and those that 

 were "white." 



"malakhov" — "husky" grains. 



Only a few of the grains of a small ear furnished by Dr. W. 

 W. Tracy, United States Department of Agriculture, sprouted 

 and none of the plants reached much size. The grains that were 

 secured were largely of the mother sort and showed the loosen- 

 ing of the outer wall that gives the appearance and feel of a dry 

 extra cover to the grain. 



"golden bantam-banana" cross (34-6). 



This half block was very early and small and the crop inferior 

 in all respects. In shape of ear and zigzag arrangement of 

 grains, it represented the characteristics of the cross. 



Thirty-seven packets of the white grains and twenty-six of the 

 yellow grains of this cross were distributed and the following 

 reports have been received : 



*The plates in this Report are made from photographs taken by ]\Ir. F. H. 

 Dodge, to whom many thanks are due for his painstaking skill. 



