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grains covering them as in high-grade field sorts. Of the 116 ears 

 sixty-one were white throughout, thirty-three with "rusty" cobs 

 and twenty-two showed the color in both cob and grains. The 

 color of the oob is not like a grain quality and cannot b© removed 

 by simply selecting ears free from it. 



REPORTS OF TESTERS OF PRIDE-STOWELI> S CROSS. 



(1) "Corn grew strong and quickly, each stalk bearing two 

 ears twelve inches long; very tender and sweet." (2) "The corn 

 gTew to the height of eight feet, the length of the^ earsi were nine 

 and ten inches ; the ears were very full and very sweet; sandy soil." 

 (3) "Large stalks, large full ears; fine eating corn. This corn did 

 better than any other sweet corn I planted this year." (4) "Corn 

 matured a little later than some of my other varieties. Cobs and 

 grains much larger than any other I had ; large grains ; flavor 

 good. Stalks larger than usual (one Avas twelve and one^-half feet 

 high), perhaps due to extremely dry season ; no more than one ear 

 to stalk. Noticed only a slight red tinge to cobs ; altogether a very 

 satisfactory corn." 



CROSS OF FIELD DENT UPON DWARF POP CORN. 



A pot-grown plant of a white field dent corn was crossed upon 

 a dwarf yellow pop in the greenhouse last winter, and from 

 seed thiis secnred four hills were grown during the present season. 

 The ear from which the field dent potted plant Avas grown is shown 

 at the left in Plate III., and to the right of the row are five of the 

 ears of the pop corn while an equal number of the crossed ears are 

 between the two parents. 



The field corn is one of the sorts largely grown for its desirable 

 ears of large white dent grains, and the mother is a variety of very 

 dwarf habit, not exceeding thirty inches in height, and bearing the 

 short and in every way small ears a foot or less fro^m the ground. 

 The contrast is in. nearly every quality. 



The cross plants, of which twenty were grown, were quite vari- 

 able in sizei, and in time of maturing the ears — but the average was 

 midway between the two parents grown near by for comparison. 



