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INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT ON SWEET CORN. 



for a period of twenty-six years being 4.7 and 4 inches, respectively. 

 The number of clear days was not so great during July and August 

 as for the previous months. 



A very poor crop of the Crosby corn was secured. Aside from the 

 low vitality, the wire worm destroyed a large percentage of the young 

 plants, and no analyses were made of this variety. The Stowell 

 Evergreen showed more variation here than in South Carolina. The 

 plants were much larger and stronger and the yield considerably 

 greater. In South Carolina the ears were much injured by worms, 

 while in Maryland very little trouble from this cause was experienced. 



NEW JERSEY. 



The soil on which the corn was grown at the New Jersey station 

 was a light, gravelly loam on which a crop of corn had been grown in 

 1904. In preparing the ground it was plowed and harrowed, and the 

 seed was planted May 10. At intervals of about ten days it was culti- 

 vated and hoed, and the green corn was ready for table use a'bout 

 September 6. The yield was only half a crop, and the matured corn 

 was harvested October 15. Tables showing the meteorological and 

 analytical data for the season follow: 



Meteorological data for New Brunswick, N. J., 1905. 



Analysis of individual ears of Stowell Evergreen corn grown at New Brunswick, N. J., 1905. 



