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Shape, slowly tapering. 

 Length, 9 inches. 

 Circumference, 7 inches. 

 Kernel, upright. 

 Translucent in color, and rough. 

 Kernel shape, broad wedge. 

 . Cob, white and carries from 14 to i8 rows of grains. 

 Per cent of corn to cob, 86. 



This corn has won its own place in the corn world, and has shown 

 itself to be one of the fittest. It matures about two weeks later than 

 Reid's Yellow Dent. 



WISCONSIN NO. 7.— (Originally Silver King.) *"The foundation 

 stock of this corn I received from Mr. William Banks, Burt, Iowa. My 

 attention was called to this corn at a corn contest held at Algona, 

 where I assisted Professor Holden in judging corn. We awarded 

 first prize to this type of corn and I was so satisfied with the corn 

 that on my return to Wisconsin I corresponded with Mr. Banks, the 

 exhibitor, and secured 30 bushels of this corn for our use. We car- 

 ried on breeding work at our station farm in accordance with the ear- 

 to-the-row method and improved the corn considerable in leaf and 

 stalk development; also in yield of perfect ears. In 1907 something 

 like 17 or 18 per cent of all ears gathered from the field classed as 

 seed ears. We have bred to produce as far as possible one ear to 

 the stalk, because where it produces only one ear the seed is likely to 

 be better than where two or three are produced. Since the corn was 

 perfected we began a rapid dissemination of it through our Experiment 

 Association. We established some 1500 corn centers in Wisconsin, 

 and had members of our Association growing corn for seed purposes 

 at these centers. We feel that the equivalent of no less than 12,000,- 

 000 bushels of this corn was grown in Wisconsin last year (1907). 

 One breeding acre at the station farm produced 98.6 bushels in 1907, 

 This is the largest yield ever secured from this or any other variety." 



GOLDEN GLOW. 



**Golden Glow corn, Wisconsin No. 12, is a cross between Wiscon- 

 sin No. 8, a selection from the Minnesota No. 13 grown at this Station, 

 and North Star, Wisconsin No. 11. The Wisconsin No. 8 was used as 

 the male parent and the No. 11 as the female. The No. 8 is a rather 

 small, very early-maturing corn, while the No. 11 is considerably 



*Prof. R. A. Moore, University of Wisconsin. 



••B. L. Leith, Instructor in Agronomy, University of Wisconsin. 



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