822 



MAIZE 



Breeding, improvement by, 126, 234. 



— methods of, 208. 



— object of, 126. 



— plot, 229. 

 Breeds : — 



Agricultural breeds, 279. 



Arcadia sugar maize, 108, 324, 325. 



Bishop, 308. 



Boone County, 300, 301. 



Botman, 320. 



Brazilian flour corn, 321, 323. 



Burlington Hybrid, 321. 



Cango, Yellow, 317. 



Champion White Pearl, analysis of 



yields of, 141. 

 Chester County, 113, 140, 304. 

 Claret sugar, 324. 

 Clark Favourite (early sugar corn), 



324- 



Coyote corn, 276. 



Dent breeds, 112, 277, 280, 281, 284. 



Eureka, 304, 305. 



Flint breeds, 51, 277, 280, 314. 



Flour corn, principal breeds, 322. 



German Yellow, 308. 



Gillespie Yellow, 321, 322. 



Golden Beauty, 306. 



Golden Eagle, 312. 



Golden King, 143. 



Golden Sugar, 326. 



Guinea corn, 42, 57. 



Horsetooth, 112. 



Hickory Horsetooth, or r2-row Hick- 

 ory, 289, 290. 



Hickory King, 33, 44, 63, 286; 

 analysis of yields 'of, 138 ; average 

 ear, number of grains, 99; branched 

 ear, 102 ; desirable and undesirable 

 types, 136 ; growth of in South 

 Africa, 328 ; illus. of ear, 285, 288. 



Indian corn, r2. 



Indian Pearl, 322. 



Iowa Silver-mine, 140, 299, 300. 



Ladysmith, ro2, 139, 285, 301, 302. 



Ladysmith Hickory, illus. of ear, 2go. 



Learning, breeds of, 312. 



Louisiana, 295, 297, 298. 



Mercer, 291, 293, 296. 



Minnesota Early, 309, 311. 



Natal White Horsetooth, 139, 303. 



Natal Yellow Horsetooth, 308. 



New England, 8-row, 319, 320. 



Noodsberg Horsetooth, 291, 292. 



North Dakota, 317, 318. 



Pod maize, 103, 275. 



Popcorn, in, 276, 326, 6g2. 



Reid Yellow Dent, 309, 310. 



Salisbury White, 291, 292. 



Silver-mine, I299. 



Skinner's Court, 145. 



Soft maize, 278, 322. 



j Breeds — continued. 



Thoroughbred, Rural, 316. 

 Star Learning, 311. 

 Sugar maize, Arcadia, 323, 324. 

 Sweet corn : Clark's Favourite, 324. 

 Union sugar, 326. 



Virginia Horsetooth, illus. of ear, 294. 

 White Cango, 315. 

 Wills Gehu, 317, 318. 

 Yellow Botman, 319, 320. 

 Yellow Cango, 318. 

 Yellow Hogan, 142, 306. 

 Yellow Horsetooth, 141, 306. 

 Breeds and sections for shows, 240. 



— experiments at Potchefstroom, 334- 



338. 



— for silage, 327, 760. 



— grown in Rhodesia, 333. 



— necessity for new, 159. 



— need for earlier ripening, 154. 



— number of rows, 114. 



— relative yield of, 333, 335, 340. 



— S. African, 314, 328. 



— suitable for coast-belt, 332. 

 — ■ suitable for high-veld, 331. 



— ■ suitable for " Midlands," east of 

 Drakensberg, 332. 



— suitable for Transvaal and Orange 



Free State, 332. 

 — ■ suitable for upper bush-veld, 333. 



— suitable for Western region, 333. 

 Brewers' grains, 715. 



Brown rust, 405. 

 Bulk handling, 577. 

 Bullocks, fodder for, 744. 



— maize meal for, 7og. 



— silage for, 750. 



Burrill's bacterial disease of dent and 

 sugar-maize, 415. 

 ! Butt, shape of, 113. 

 1 Butts of ears, 257. 

 j By-products, 668, 711. 



1 Cake, corn-oil, 714. 

 Canada, 50, 509. 

 Canadian Elevators, 611. 

 Canning maize, 690. 

 Cape Colony, production, 63. 

 Cape Province, 64. 

 Cape stock farmers, 501. 

 Carbohydrates, 651. 

 Carbon-dioxide, 83. 

 Card, form of fudge's, 273. 

 Carpels, 102. 



Caryopsis of maize-plant, ng. 

 Cattle, maize for fattening, 7ig 

 Cedara, tests at, 340. 

 Cells, 68, 6g. 

 Cellulose, 68, 77, 7g8. 

 Cerealine, 688, 715. 

 Cereals, comparative world's crop, 1. 



