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the sample from Xorth Carolina, and these two rows were replanted 

 with grains from another ear from the same lot, and this grew and 

 made the largest corn, by a foot and a half, in the whole block. This 

 is mentioned to show how unfavorable was the season here for sweet 

 corn planted, as this was, early in May. The test amounted to but 

 little, for the com did not grow on account of the prolonged drought 

 in May and June. After the rains came it was too late, as the short 

 stalks had set their ears, and the crop was a partial failure. In view 

 of the very late moist autumn, the results perhaps would have Ijeen 

 reached by a late planting, as the only two rows with full-sized stalks 

 and ears were the ones in the replanted rows for Xorth Carolina. 



Upon June 2d the record shows that the most promising rows were 

 New Jerse}', Virginia, Illinois, and Iowa, followed by Connecticut. 

 Kansas, Nevada, Washington, Hawaii, Vermont and Colorado were 

 about equally poor, and, as before stated, Xorth Carolina was nearly a 

 failure. It was noted at this time that the color of the young foliage 

 Avas somewhat different in the plants from the far-westeru-growu seed. 

 There was a large maple tree at the end of the strip and nearest to this 

 set of samples, which may have accounted for this appearance, as it 

 did without doubt for some of the dwarfishness of the plants later in 

 the season. 



In the ears harvested there was notliing noted to indicate any change 

 possibly due to the different conditions tinder which the seed had been 

 grown. The experiment teaches emphatically the difficulties that lie 

 in the path of one who would make tests of climatic influence upon 

 future offspring among such plastic annual plants as corn. 



It may be said that the ears were generally entirely red. with the 

 single striking exception of those from the Connecticut rows, which 

 were much mixed with white. 



A LIST OF THE POPCORNS GROWN IN 1905. 



The following is a list of the commercial varieties of popcorn grown 

 upon the home grounds the past season. The soil devoted to this pur- 

 pose was not well adapted to the crop, and the season being unfavor- 

 able, the results as to yield were not satisfactory. Also, one end of the 

 plot was somewhat overshadowed by a maple tree, and this doubtless 

 prevented the rows from Xo. 26 to Xo. 31 from being comparable with 

 the others. The last five kinds, Xos. 31 to 36, upon account of their 

 color and other peculiarities, were grown upon separate plots, widely 



