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During the present year a plot, was given to a further study of the 

 increase in yield of corn by selection. Plate IV. gives samples of 

 the result. The corn of this plot was unusually large and vigorous. 

 Single-cared stalks were rarely injct with, the main portion having 

 either two or three ears to each plant. There were numerous st<ilks 

 with four and several with five ears. It is probable that the tripk-lK 

 will be selected for seed as the tendency to ear may be overdone. As 

 two ears are better than one, when both are good, so throe good cars 

 are better than a large number, when the quality decreases. 



The three plates show that the mixture of black and white grains 

 is maintained without much change. The plan is to keep the two 

 colors and let this breed, if established, be a mixed prolific. 



EXPERIMENTS "WITH EGGPLANTS. 

 Crossed Stock. 



The crossed eggplants occupied Plot II., Series 11. , and Plot II., 

 Series 1 11. They were the representatives of four crossed fruits se- 

 lected from the crop of ,1901. Seeds were sown March 1st, and plants 

 set in the field May 20th, three rows to a belt, eighteen plants in a row. 



There seemed to be no practical dilt'erence between the crossed stock 

 and the parent varieties as to the time of bloom or earliness of fruit; 

 no such contrast as was remarked the preceding season. 



A comparative record of the number of fruits produced by a parent 

 and crossed stock was not kept, but the latter seemed to be fully as 

 productive in 1901. Towards the close of the season the parent 

 sorts ceased blooming, while the crossed were covered witli flowers and 

 young fruits up to the time of frost. 



The plants received but tAvo applications of soda-Bordeaux early in 

 the season and so were practically unsprayed. The foliage was but 

 lightly infested by the leaf blight, while the fruits, in common with 

 those of the standard varieties, suffered severely. 



In order to make the spraying of eggplants worth while, the ap- 

 plications during the fruiting st^ason should be frequent — at least once 

 in ten days, and oftener in case of washing rains. Perhajw of more 

 importance than spraying is the careful removal of all fruits as sooa 

 as they ai-e of marketable size, or of any smaller spotted fruits. 



