470 NEW JERSEY STATE AGRICULTURAL 



"breeders" were, for strip i, "Aristocrat;'' strip 2, "Adams;" 

 strip 3, "Striped Evergreen;" strip 4, "Golden Bantam;" strip 5, 

 a sort called "Hess." The "Aristocrat" (4) is a sweet early 

 variety, with pinkish grain; "Adams" (3) is an early white dent; 

 "Striped Evergreen" (27), as the name indicates, is a sweet corn 

 with the grains marked with pink stripes ; "Golden Bantam"' (34) 

 is an earlv yellow, and the so-called "Hess"' is a red sweet corn 

 with red cob and husks. These "breeders" were all selected on 

 account of their striking peculiarities, while the sorts planted 

 alongside of them were sweet corns of the common white type. 



In the first strip where the seventy- five white varieties were 

 alongside of the "Aristocrat" the harvest showed that the pink 

 "breeder" had ver}- feeble power to impress its color upon the 

 grains of neighboring ears and reciprocal!}' the white grains were 

 nearly absent upon the "Aristocrat" ears. 



The second strip had as its "breeder" a variety with large 

 flinty grains with a dent when mature. Here the sweet sorts 

 alongside showed a marked influence from this sort, as their 

 grains were many of them smooth. The "Adam's" ears showed 

 no grains that were wrinkled from the crossing with the sweet 

 varieties. 



Strip 3, where the "Striped Evergreen" {2y) was the 

 "breeder," gave.no indication that this variety had any influence 

 upon the neighboring sorts. The ear of the "breeder" showed 

 some grains that were tinged with yellow as a result of- crossing 

 with the "Golden Bantam" in an adjoining strip. It was not 

 expected that the immediate neighbors, all being white, would 

 noticeably eft'ect the striped grains in the breeder, but it is \\ orthy 

 of remark that the "breeder" did not develop some stripes even 

 though few upon the white sorts that grew along side. 



The early yellow "Golden Bantam" (34) was able to impress 

 itself freelv upon its neighbors, and. as remarked above, its influ- 

 ence went beyond its own strip of corn. The crossing here was 

 not reciprocal in the sense that there were no white grains upon 

 the small yellow ears of the "breeder." Like the "Black -Mex- 

 ican," this is a distinct sort that breeds freely upon other variety, 

 or at least its impress is evident, while with other sorts the cross- 

 ing may be as effective, but not distinguished at once with the e3'e. 



The last strip had the most striking "breeder" of all, in the 

 deep red grains taken from a solid red ear kindly sent to the 

 department by a IMr. D. W. Hess, of this State. In this case, 

 there was no instance of the red color being) impressed upon any 

 of the manv neighboring white varieties, and. contrariwise, no 



