SWEET CORN 



valleys between the Baboquivari and 

 Quitotoa mountains, attention was called 

 to a few ears of the true, southwestern 

 Indian or Squaw corn which contained a 

 number of wrinkled, sweet grains. These 

 ears were secured, and from them a race 

 of native sweet corn has been' isolated. 

 Two generations have been grown and an 

 abundant supply of pure sweet corn secured. 

 This variety retains all the hardiness and 

 heat resistance of the native Squaw corn, 

 and although the ears are still small and 

 the grains rather shallow, the quality is 

 much better, being sweeter and more tender 

 than ordinary field corn. 



This new variety is now being bred by 

 the ear- to- row method with a view to 

 increasing its productiveness and the length 

 or depth of the grains on the cob. It is 

 encouraging to note that several of the rows 

 in 1911 tests exhibited considerable supe- 

 riority in these respects over their neighbors 

 and gave promise of strong variation in 

 the direction desired. The row planted 

 from parent ear No. 6, for instance, yielded 



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