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scarcely formed. The following varieties 

 ripened: Flints, Adams' Extra Early, Golden 

 Dew Drop, Mitchell's Extra Early, Self Husk- 

 ing, King Philip, Angel of Midnight, Canada 

 Yellow, Longfellow, Landreth's Early Summer 

 Yellow, Pearce's Prolific and Smut Nose nearly 

 ripened. Sweet, Crosby, Extra Early Cory 

 Ford's Early, Marblehead Early, Pee and Kay, 

 and Talbot's First and Best; Hickox, Living- 

 ston's Evergreen, Landreth's Early Market, 

 Northern Pedigree Sweet, Potter's Excelsior, 

 Perry's Hybrid Early and Shaker's Early nearly 

 ripened. Tests were made of silage corn, and 

 the yields per acre ranged from 14 to 30 tons. 

 The following are recommended by Director 

 Saunders, as the most productive in the order 

 named: Thoroughbred White Flint, Long 

 White Flint, Long Yellow Flint, Yellow Dut- 

 ton. Large White Flint, Pearce's Prolific and 

 Longfellow. Excepting Long White Flint, all 

 matured enough to make excellent silage. 

 (Bull. 12, Central Experimental Farm, June,'91.) 

 Richard Gibson of Delaware, Ont., highly rec- 

 ommends the Butler Co. Dent^* He says: "For 

 the silo, it grows just as much forage in propor- 

 tion to corn as is profitable; and for the crib, 

 more bushels of shelled corn to bushels of ears 

 than any corn I have yet grown." He thinks 

 it superior to Longfellow in earliness and yield. 



* Farmers' Advocate, 'ili.a.y 15, 1895. 



