196 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



REPORTS FROM TESTERS OF ""gOLDEN BANTAM-BANANA/' 



(i) "This corn was very prolific, of vigorous growth and with two or 

 three ears to a stalk." (2) "Large stalks and good yield ; excellent quality." 

 (3) "The stalks were five feet; the ears were slender, being five to six 

 inches; the grain was very good." (4) "It w-as splendid eating corn." (5) 

 "This corn was very productive with two and three ears to a stalk. It was 

 early and grew about six feet tall." (6) "The ears were of good size and 

 stayed in good eatable condition for a week or more." (7) "This variety was 

 early with medium-sized ears, growing six to seven feet high." (8) "The 

 corn was very nice." (9) "The corn proved to be a vigorous grower and 

 was very prolific." (10) "Planted May loth, we had the first to eat July 

 30th and it was sweet and tender. The stalks were from six to eight feet 

 high, very vigorous and mostly two ears to a stalk and were four to eight 

 inches long. There were twelve to fourteen rows of grains to each ear." 

 (11) "Have had success with this corn and must say it is the sweetest corn I 

 have had yet. It bore good-sized ears and those evenly grained. Plants are 

 of medium size, five to six feet high." (12) "The corn was not very large 

 in size but was very sweet and had a good-sized grain." (13) "I found that 

 the corn was very sweet, very early, very productive, sometimes one stalk 

 having three ears, and an early market variety." (14) "This corn had large 

 stalks. It was of fine quality and I prefer it to any other." (15) "This corn 

 was a strong, vigorous grower. The quality was excellent. Each stalk had 

 one fair-sized ear, some had two." (16) "This corn was very sweet." (17) 

 "This variety was prolific with a well-shaped ear which was very sweet." 



"golden bantam-country gentleman" cross (34-19). 



White grains of a zigzag ear were used for seed and the poor 

 crop showed seven fully zigzag ears and seventeen that were par- 

 tially so. 



"adams-crosby" cross (2-20). 



The seed for this half block (No. 9) was selected from a 

 single sixteen-rowed ear. Of the forty ears gathered, only four 

 were eight-rowed, the others being mostly twelve-rowed and of 

 the shape as shown in the plate of this cross in previous reports. 

 This is a desirable cross when conditions favor the production of 

 early corns. 



Sixty-seven packets of this cross were sent to testers the past 

 season and below will be found the various remarks concerning 

 this combination. 



reports from testers of ''adams-crosby.'" 



(i) "The ears and grains were of good size and the growth was very 

 rapid. The quality was very sweet and the ears were well filled with plump 

 kernels." (2) "This is an eight-rowed corn, ears eight to ten inches long 

 and stalks five to six feet tall. The grains are set close together. I think it 

 is a fine corn." (3) "There were two ears to a stalk and they were five to 

 six inches long." (4) "This corn had very high and thick stalks with long 

 ear and fine, even grain which was tender and sweet. It produced tv.-o ears 



