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It should be stated that this crossed corn is entirely unlike the 

 "Voorhees Red," made in a similar way of breeding the "Mexican" 

 upon the "Egyptian," another white sort. In the present case the 

 color of the dark grains is as black as those of the true "Mexican," 

 and as a result the final cross, when the white grains are all elimi- 

 nated, will be doubtless an ear ^\^th black grains, but, of course, having 

 a blending of many other qualities of the two parents. Just why the 

 result is not a red here, as \nth the "Voorhees," it is left for further 

 experiments to decide. 



It seems possible, by further selection and l)rceding from the 

 crosses here shown, to obtain a variety that has the rows of a well- 

 defined number and another of the true zigzag type of the "Gentle- 

 man" — that is, black grains from the solid black ear No. 1 might 

 perpetuate its type, while those from No, 6, it would be expected, 

 will produce the peculiar flattened and slightly curved ear of the 

 "Gentleman" with the grains numerous long and disposed without 

 order, 



"Mexican" upon " Oentleman " (White Seed Grains). 



The group of six ears in the upper right-hand corner of Plate I. 

 illustrates the results obtained from planting a separate breeding 

 block with the white grains obtained from an ear of the above cross 

 as grown the previous season. The land where this lot of corn was 

 raised was not quite as good as that of the corresponding black set, 

 and on account of the very dry weather the ears are doubtless much 

 inferior to what they would otherwise have been. The whole lot of 

 a hundred or so of ears is practically white throughout, with the ex- 

 ception of two small ears that show perhaps one-quarter of black, 

 suggesting that the grains planted carried the black quality, but so 

 obscured as to escape detection at the time of planting. As in the 

 previous group, the left three show the rows of grains distinctly, and 

 they approach more nearly the form and arrangement of the grains 

 in the "Mexican" than the three upon the right. The only ear that 

 had the grains placed zigzag tliroughout is shown at the extreme 

 right. It is seen that from ear No. 1 to No. 6 there is a some- 

 what similar set of variations as shown in the companion set, but 

 here the grains are practically all white, and no further work is needed 

 to get the color uniform. Here, again, there is hope of obtaining two 

 types of ears by selection and breeding. It remains to l)e seen whether 



