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REPORT ON CoRN POLLINATION IV. (FINAL). 
M. L. FISHER. 
The work under this head has been reported in the 1908, 1910, and 1911 
proceedings. The reports have dealt mostly with Cross-pollinating with 
pollen from a variety of a different color or race. One of these crosses 
sweet, male, and Reid’s Yellow Dent, ftemale—wnrs selected to be carried 
out to the end to see if a new variety could be produced. 
In the third year two types of sweet corn were distinguishable, one 
a large ear with whitish kernels and white cobs like the original Stowell’s 
Evergreen, and the other, a smaller ear with yellowish kernels and red 
cobs. These two types were planted the season of 1911, but through poor 
management no seed was saved. Enough ears were obtained to see that 
the types were fairly well fixed. Old seed was used in 1912 and hand 
pollinations were made on each type. A few good ears of each kind were 
obtained. The kernel and cob characters came true to the original selec- 
tions. Upon beirg cooked as roasting ears, both types were found to be 
of excellent quality—the yellow kernel and red cob type being slightly 
sweeter. The mature ears showed some dent kernels, but not many. A 
good quantity of seed was obtained. It may be said further that the 
yellow-kernel red-cob type was somewhat earlier than the white-kernel 
white-cob type, the latter inclining to be late. 
In the season of 1915 three plantings were made, one in the writer's 
garden, another in the garden of the foreman of the Station Experimental 
plats, and the third in the trial gardens of D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, 
Mich. In the two garden trials, the white-kernel white-cob type was used 
on account of its promising greater prolificacy. The corn in the writer’s 
garden was almost ruined by a hail storm, and that in the foreman’s gar- 
den was somewhat injured. Such ears as were obtained for use as roasting 
ears were declared to be of superior quality. The writer saved no seed, 
the foreman was able to save a good quantity and planted again in 1914. 
The corn planted on the plats of Ferry & Co., was reported on as fol- 
lows: 
