INVESTIGATION OF 1907. 



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Analysis of individual ears of Stowell Evergreen corn grown at Orange, Conn., 1907. 



MAINE. 



The Crosby corn grown at the Maine station did not reach the 

 edible condition hefore the iir>t frost, and as the samples secured were 

 extremely youn:, their analyses will not be comparable with those 

 made at other places. The corn was planted June 25 on a clay-loam 

 soil which had been used by the horticultural department of the 

 station for growing small fruits and garden crops, beets being the 

 previous crop grown, on which 800 pounds of commercial, fertilizer 

 had been used. In 1907 the soil was plowed to a depth of 7 inches, 

 harrowed twice with a disk and three times with a smoothing harrow, 

 and 800 pounds of fertili/.er \\ere then sown broadcast. The corn 

 was cultivated with a horse cultivator five times and hoed twice. 



The meteorological data were favorable to a high sugar content; a 

 heavy rainfall, 5.77 inches, occurred in June and 3.44 inches in July, 

 the time of germination and early growth at the Maine station, and 

 very little rain fell in August (1.41 inches), thus favoring the storage 



of sugar. 



Meteorological data for Orono, Me., 1907. 



The data for the Maine station are given for reference and com- 

 parison, but are not platted with the other stations in the graphic 

 charts for the reason previously given. Attention is called to the 

 high percentages of sugar found, notwithstanding the immaturity of 

 the samples; and this is of special interest when considered in con- 

 nection with the 1905 data for the Crosby. During that year the 

 sugar content for the Crosby variety was also very high, and the corn 

 was not as young as the Maine samples for 1907. 



