202 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



CORN UPON THE SMOCK LAND. 



Twelve blocks (four by four hills) of crossed corn were 

 planted upon the Smock Land, namely, four along the eastern 

 and eight upon the western sides. The soil is poor in all parts 

 except two strips where the old fence rows ran across the four 

 acres ; this, combined with the drought, made the crop nearly a 

 failure in some plots. 



Block I. "Golden Bantam" upon "Golden Bantam-Ruby" 

 (3V/34/76). There w^as a fair stand of plants which, upon Sep- 

 tember loth, showed thirty purple, twenty purplish and eleven 

 green stalks. This suggests in this cross that the "ruby" color is 

 a dominant one when bred with a variety with the ordinary green 

 leaves and stems. Thirty-nine ears suitable for seed were har- 

 vested, of w'hich thirty had a mixture of the wdiite and yellow 

 grains upon a white cob, six with red grains ("ruby") upon 

 "ruby" cob and three with red cob and the mixed yellow and 

 other grains. As with the stalks, there is here strong evidence 

 of a Mendelian character in the "ruby" color that pervades the 

 whole plant but may or may not involve the grains. In Plate 

 VI, upper left-hand corner, three ears of this cross are shown. 

 The one with the tag has the red cob and grains and the one to 

 its left has a red cob and mixed white and yellow grains, while 

 the one to its right is normal as to color. 



Block 2. "Golden Bantam" upon "Henderson" (35/39). 

 This plot was in a very poor place and the plants were so small 

 that only seven sizable ears were harvested, all of which showed 

 the usual percentage of yellow and white grains and one is given 

 at 2 in the plate. 



Block 3. "Golden Bantam" upon "Potter's Excelsior" 

 (34/69). As this plot chanced upon an old fence row, the stand 

 was fair and twenty-five well-shaped ears were gathered having 

 the expected ratio of yellow and white grains. A sample ear is 

 shown at 3 in the plate. 



Block 4. "Golden Bantam-Stow ell" upon "Golden Bantam- 

 Banana" (34/83/734/6) . The plants were inferior and only four 

 ears were secured for continuing the double cross, one of which 

 is shown at 4. There were no signs of the zigzag of the 

 "Banana." 



Block 5. "Voorhees Red" upon "Egyptian" (160/23). The 

 record for September loth is that "the plants made a fair stand 

 and were reaching maturity." Twenty-six ears of good size and 

 shape w^ere harvested, nearly all being twelve-rowed and show- 

 ing the mixed color of red and white that was characteristic of 



