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MAIZE 



Dairy cows, sec Cows. 

 Demand, increase in, 678. 

 Description of plant, 65. 



— form, 109, 11S, 123. 

 Development of pods, 191. 

 Dextrine, preparation of, 7S5. 

 Dichogamy, 107. 



Diet preparations available, 684. 

 Digestible material of parts of maize 



plant, 739. 

 Digestibility of fodder and silage, 459, 



738. 



— of maize products, 670. 

 Dihybrid cross, analysis of, 184. 



— distribution of gametes in a, 183. 



— ratios, 182. 

 Disease resistance, 156. 

 Diseases and pests, 405. 

 Disk cultivating, 378. 

 Distance of planting tests, 389. 

 Distillers' grains, 714. 

 Distillery slop, 715. 

 Distribution — 



— geographical, 46. 



— in U.S.A., 48. 



— limitation of, 25. 



Domestic consumption in U.S.A., 1. 

 Dominant allelomorphs, 172. 

 Dominants, extracted, 168. 

 Dothiorella, 415. 

 Drainage of maize land, 36. 

 Drakensberg, breeds suitable for, 332. 

 Dried maize for winter use, 691. 

 Drought, effect of, 38, 415. 



— resistance, 156. 

 Dry-farming, 36, 348. 

 Dry v. soaked maize, 706. 



Drying American maize for export, 627. 



— for export, 595. 



— loss of weight by, 481. 



— the grain, 481. 



Durban, Clearing House at, 537. 

 Duties, import, 617. 



Dwarfness, inheritance of abnormal, 

 197. 



Ear, average number of grains per, 99. 



— average weight of grain per, 137. 

 — ■ bifid, 101. 



— blind, 92. 



— branched, 102. 



— circumference of, 113, 261. 



— form for describing, 118. 



— heterozygous, 164. 



— increase of weight of grain per, 137. 



— number of grains per, 116. 



— ■ percentage of grain to, 148, 254. 



— proportion of grain per, 116. 



— shape, 113, 256. 



— standard length for judging, 252. 



— two-lobed, 101. 



Ear, weight of, 113. 



— young, 101. 



Ears, analysis of yields, 138. 



— bisexual, 90. 



— botanical characters, 86. 



— butts of, 113, 257. 



— desirable, 215, 250. 



— exhibition of, 239. 



— four-rowed, 206. 



— " grooming," 238. 



— increasing size of, 135. 



— inheritance of fasciated and lobed, 



206. 



— inheritance of laterally branched, 



206. 

 — > inheritance of length of, 197. 



— mature, in. 



— number of, in. 



— plants developing two, 112. 



— secondary, no, ill. 



— ■ seed-room selection of, 222. 



— selection of parent, 220. 



— single-breeding, classes for shows, 



242. 



— tips of, 258. 

 Ear-rots of maize, 413. 



Ear-worm, Heliothis armiger, Hubner, 



444. 

 Egg-cell, 69. 



Egypt, 56, 5°9- 

 Egyptian corn, 16. 

 Eleusine Coracana, 13. 

 Elevator certificates, 593. 



— charges, 591. 



— Silos, Argentine, 612. 



— systems, 589. 



— warehouses, construction of, 587. 



— warehouses, co-operative, 615. 

 Elevators, Canadian, 611. 



— Continental, 610. 



— heating of grain-in, 594. 



— in U.S., 611. 



— ownership of, 614. 

 Embryo, 70, 659. 



— plant, 6g. 



— -sac, 107. 



— size of, 260. 



— tubular glands in the, 124. 

 Enchilladas, 690. 



Endosperm, 70, 107, 123, 187, 188, 660. 



England, cultivation in, 27. 



Ensiling, best stage of growth for, 456. 



— method of, 761. 

 Ether extract or fat, 650. 

 Etymology, 16. 

 EuChkena Mexicana, 66, 87. 

 Europe, 12, 52. 

 European consumption, 508. 



— market, classes required for, 618. 

 Exhibiting, 235, 248, 257. 

 Exhibition, S. African Maize Show, 237. 



