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per rent : while the lowest percentage of sugar in the Crosby corn was 

 above :JM per rent and was found at the Connecticut station. The 

 .l.it a for 1 ( .)()6 show a decrease in every case in sugar content, varying 

 from 7 pei- cent in the ease of the Stowell Evergreen grown at Con- 

 necticut to 18 per cent in the case of the Crosby, other decreases 

 amounting to 10, 11, 13, and 15 per cent. Unfortunately the experi- 

 ment at the New Jersey station was abandoned, so no direct compari- 

 son can be made. In 1906, however, there is only one case (South 

 Carolina, with 18.07 per cent) in which the sugar content of the 

 St.. well Evergreen corn is appreciably above the lowest average for 



FIG. 2. Percentage of sugar In the corn, temperature, altitude, and average length of day at the different 



stations, 1906. 



1906 t hat ..f New Jersey. The 1906 minimum for the Crosby corn, 

 a!\va\ - rich in sugar (12.46 per cent at the Connecticut station), is 2 

 per cent lower than the minimum for the Stowell Evergreen variety 

 at New Jersey in 1905. 



The average meteorological data for the two years do not throw 

 much light on the marked inferiority of the 1906 crop, and it seems 

 probable that it is the distribution of the sunshine and rainfall rather 

 than the total amounts thereof (provided these do not exceed or fall 

 hel>\v certain limits) which determine the quality of this crop. (See 

 comparison of data for 1906 and 1907.) 



