MISCELLANEOUS. — 223 
Campbell, representative of the American Agri- 
culturist, G. B. W. Dunn, J. ὟΝ. Reynolds ana 
John J. Tart were the witnesses to the harvest- 
ing. 
Besides winning the $500 in gold offered by 
the American Agriculturist My. Drake also won 
an additional prize of $500 offered by the South 
Carolina Board of Agriculture to the person 
who would bring the first prize to that State. 
In competition for the same prize, Mr. Alfred 
Rose, of Penn Yan, N. Y., won the second 
prize, growing 191 bushels of shelled crib-cured 
corn on one acre of ground. The total cost of 
producing Mr. Rose’s crop was $55. 
The third prize went to George Gartner of 
Pawnee Co., Neb., who grew 151 bushels of 
shelled crib-cured corn on one acre. The total 
cost of producing his crop was $49.70. 
Cross fertilization.—The subject of crossing 
varieties of Indian corn has been studied ata 
number of the experiment stations, especially 
Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, New York and 
Ohio. Of these Illinois has published the larg- 
est amount of information concerning this 
work.* 
It is commonly known that if two different 
varieties of corn are grown near each other 
they will “mix” orcross fertilize. In this way, 
* See bulletins Illinois experiment station, especially 21 
and 25, 
