EXPERIMENT STATION REPORT. 479 



sentative men in each Congressional district of the State, while 

 a quantity was grown upon our own experiment grounds. 



All reports sent in agree that the plants are small, one stating 

 the average height to be 4^ feet. The number of ears to a 

 stalk is ranged from one to four. As to quality, the reports are 

 usually excellent or good. The number of rows to the ear is 

 almost invariably eight. Several of those who grew the corn 

 sent sample ears to the Experiment Station. 



Below is given some of the remarks submitted to us : 



"We tried one small mess of it, and it was pronounced very 

 sweet. It grows very quickly.'' "Planted it on the 226. of ^lay, 

 not expecting to see any results, but, to my surprise, it was up 

 in a few days, and grew rapidly, soon tasselling out, and ears 

 setting while it was only about three feet high. We had one 

 meal from it the first by two weeks of any other sort — near the 

 4th of July. Shall give it another trial." "Planted May 31st, 

 and used for table August 5th. It can be planted closely, and 

 get a fair yield of early corn." "It is a very early kind of corn, as 

 I planted some of my own at the same time, and the 'Malakhov' 

 came two weeks earlier. The stalks I do not think were over 

 two and one half feet tall !" "I put it on my table sixty days 

 from planting, and it was plenty old enough. It had excellent 

 ears, of good quality." "The corn is too small to be profitable 

 for market, but it is valuable for the home garden on account 

 "of its earliness." 



Upon our own grounds, it gave ears in fair number, that 

 averaged four inches in length. They had the rows always to 

 the number of eight. Two crops might be grown during a 

 single season. 



Alongside of the above we grew a few hills of another "Mala- 

 khov" corn (96), also received from the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, and under the list number of "9357 — (aml^er 

 grain)", grown by Upton Galligher. The two varieties grew 

 nearly the same with us, and the color of the dried grain is 

 practically alike in both. The last named has the ear somewhat 

 longer and more even in diameter throughout. 



Plate III. shows two of the ears of the "amber" kind (96) 

 upon the left hand of the upper row, while two of the "white" 

 (95) are shown upon the right hand. The depth of the grain 

 is indicated in the two sectional views of an ear at the extreme 

 right. 



