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planted May 28, the young plants came up June 8 and tasseled some 

 time between .luly 17 and 24. The plat was cultivated three times 

 with a shovel-toothed cultivator and weeded by hand twice. On 

 September 1 the corn reached the edible state and came to full ma- 

 turity October 16. The cultural data for the Stowell Evergreen are 

 exactly the same except that the plat had been planted with tomatoes 

 in the preceding year. The Stowell Evergreen came up June 8, 

 tasseled July 17, was edible August 25, and was harvested October 16. 

 The meteorological conditions are shown in the following table: 



Meteorological data for New Haven, Conn., 1908. 



Special attention is called to the rainfall data. The corn was 

 harvest ed between September 1 and 7. From August 7, when 0.42 

 inch fell, there were no more rains until August 11, when 0.19 inch 

 fell; on August 14, 0.1 ineh is recorded; on August 17, 0.11 inch; 

 on August 22, 2.93 inches; on August 26, 2.91 inches, and the follow- 

 ing day 0.1 1 inch fell a total of 8.12 inches for August as compared 

 with 1/J1 inches in l!M)7, u hen the heavy rain came in September. 

 N" other rains occurred until the corn was harvested. The mean 

 temperature was higher than for the three previous years. 



The analytical data for the Crosby corn are as follows: 



Analytic of individual ears of Crosby corn grown at Orange, Conn., 1908. 



