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been strongly impressed by fifty years' selection. The 

 photographs of the samples of Reid's Yellow Dent, one 

 from the originator, Mr J. L. Reid, the other from Mr 

 A. C. Rhoades, illustrate the uniformity of the char- 

 acteristics running through the Reid variety. Mr 

 Rhoades secured seed from Mr Reid about five years 

 ago, and has grown this variety without intentional 

 crossing since that time. In the samples of Mr 

 Rhoades's corn sent to the Illinois experiment station 



Fig 4— Reid's Yellow Dent 



Butts, tips, size of cob, depth of kernel, and shape of ears 



for examination, the indentation and shape of kernel, 

 shape of ear, filling out at tips and butts, length and 

 circumference, size and shape of cob, are uniformly 

 and strongly Reid characteristics. This condition 

 shows very decidedly that the characteristics that have 

 been impressed on this variety of corn are strongly 

 fixed and are uniformly reproduced. It offers one of 

 the best illustrations of the effect of intelligent selec- 

 tion, the original corn with small ears, poorly filled 



