2o6 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



Row 40. "Golden Bantam-Premier" (34/70). Solid white ear No. 5 was 

 used liere. Fourteen ears were harvested, all being of fair size 

 and showing breeders. 



Row 41. "Golden Bantam-Premier" (34/70). This row was planted with 

 solid white grains from ear fs'o. 6. There were sixteen medium- 

 sized ears gathered. 



Row 42. "Golden Bantam-Stowell" (34/83)- White grains from mixed 

 twin ears were used here. Tiiere were twelve ears secured. 



Row 43. "Golden Bantam-Stowell" (34/83). This row was planted with 

 amber grains, not long, from single ear No. 32. Fourteen mixed 

 ears were secured. 



Row 44. "Malamo" (95/71). This row was planted with amber grains. 

 The fifteen ears gatljered showed "Jones'." 



Row 45. "Iowa Silver Mine-Country Gentleman" (144/19). Sweet grains 

 from car No. 14 were used for this row. Twelve ears were 

 secured and one was zigzag and three intermediate. 



Row 46. "Iowa Silver Mine-Country Gentleman" (144-19). Two straight 

 rowed ears were used here. Ten good-sized ears were har- 

 vested, one being zigzag and four intermediate. 



Row 47. "Iowa Silver Mine-Stowell" (144/83). This row was planted 

 with white sweet grains ; a fair crop with one ear mixed. 



Row 48. "Pride of Nishua-Old Colony" (145/64). This row was planted 

 with white sweet grains. Fourteen ears were secured and 

 showed breeders. 



Row 49. "Pride of Nishua-Metropolitan" (145/56). Here white sweet 

 grains were used. There were nine large ears. 



COB COLORS. 



The "Pride of Nishua" is a large field variety of dent corn with 

 the so-called "red" cob, but to be more exact the exterior of the 

 cob is a shade of "old rose." This color is confined to the chaff 

 and the central cylinder of pith is as free from any color as the 

 same portion of a "white" cob. The cob color is an ear character, 

 that is, it does not seem to matter what the individual grain may 

 bear in coloring substance, whether black, yellow or white, the 

 whole surface of the cob is of the same general tint. 



In the crossing of the above-named "red" cob field corn with 

 "Stowell," "Country Gentleman," "Old Colony," "Metropoli- 

 tan," etc., there was a combination of a "red" cob with a "white" 

 cob sort in each case. • It, therefore, becomes of interest to note 

 the effect that the unions had upon the subject of color of the 

 cob. 



After the ears suitable for seed-saving were gathered, the re- 

 maining ears were examined in the field as to their cob color 

 with the following results: 



1. "Iowa Silver Mine-Stowell's Evergreen" Cross; All white cob ex- 

 cepting one showing the rose. 



2. "Iowa Silver Mine-Country Gentleman" Cross (pinkish grain plot) : 

 All white cob excepting four with the rose color. 



3. "Iowa Silver Mine-Country Gentleman" Cross (white zigzag ears) : 

 All white cobs. 



