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INDIAN COKN CULTURE. 



yields of varieties tested more than one year: 



VARIETY. 



Years 

 tested. 



Yield per 

 ave. bu. 



Days to 

 mature. 



Color 

 grain. 



Legal Tender 



Golden Beauty 



Piasa Queen 



Mastodon 



Big Buckeye 



Iroquois 



Habetf s Golden 



Hickory King 



Red Cob Ensilage ...... 



Southern Red Cob 



Burrill & Whitman 



Munn's Early 



Champaign Co. Prolific 



Wisconsin White 



Ivory Dent 



46.2 



62. 



74.5 



53. 



62.4 



85.7 



64.7 



44.6 



62.6 



79. 



73.2 



64.1 



68.9 



43.8 



86.2 



105 

 130 

 122 

 117 

 119 

 118 

 117 

 131 

 129 

 118 

 138 

 110 

 110 

 106 

 124 



Yellow. 



Yellow. 



Yellow. 



Yellow. 



Yellow. 



Yellow. 



Yellow. 



White. 



White. 



White. 



WhitQ. 



Yellow. 



Yellow. 



White. 



White. 



Illinois. At Champaign: The following table 

 gives the results of five years up to and includ- 

 ing 1892. The season of 1893 was so dry that 

 the results have little value in this comparison. 

 The yield is of air-dried corn in bushels. This 

 table is from bulletin 25, for April, 1893, of the 

 Illinois experiment station: 



VAEIETY. 



Champion White Pearl. . 



Leaming 



Burr's White 



Helm's Improved 



Clark's Iroquois 



Stewart's Impr'd Yellow. 



Riley's Favorite 



Fisk's Yellow 



Legal Tender 



Murdock 



Edmonds 



1888. 



70. 



86.6 



85.9 



84.8 



68.5 



91.2 



83.7 



76.6 



84.2 



80.3 



81.1 



1889. 



94.8 

 80.6 

 75.7 

 102.6 

 81.9 

 68.7 

 66.3 

 79:5 

 68.7 

 65. 

 66.1 



1890. 



74.9 



69.4 



67.7 



51.1 



59. 



54.7 



55.9 



61.7 



60. 



61,6 



53.3 



1891. 



76.5 



67.3 



67.7 



39. 



65.4 



58.4 



58.6 



57.4 



56.8 



59.8 



56.1 



65. 



70.1 



64.2 



79.2 



72.9 



74.4 



74.1 



60.1 



60.3 



57.6 



58.4 



Aver- 

 age. 



76.2 



74.8 



72.2 



71.3 



69.5 



69.5 



67.7 



67.1 



66. 



64.9 



63. 



