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some results that seem exceedingly satisfactory. She would 

 like to state to you briefly just what she has done, and I am 

 sure it will be a pleasure to hear from her. 



A New Strain of Sweet Corn. 



MisS SCHLEGEL: My farm is only one-half acre, but we 

 have farmed there to our advantage for our own table. I be- 

 gan to work along certain lines. I was interested in tomatoes 

 and finally in Bantam corn. But it has been just this one 

 year. You can't get results in one year. Do you all know 

 what fine corn Golden Bantam is? One fall I noticed that 

 here and there were white kernels among corn I had retained 

 for seed. I think I can trace that to some early Evergreen 

 corn in the neighborhood. I separated out those little ker- 

 nels and planted them. I kept the corn quite apart from anv 

 other contamination. That 3'ear it was quite satisfactory, 

 and I have a picture which shows an ear of White Bantam 

 and two ears of Yellow Bantam. Here and there on the 

 Golden Bantam ears you can detect white kernels. I went 

 along and planted again, and the next year I had pure, good 

 White Bantam corn, and last year I planted only White Ban- 

 tam in a certain patch. The ^Miite Bantam was so uniform- 

 ly white that I believe I have got it pretty well established. 

 I find there is one great seed firm that is quite interested in 

 this white variety and wish to test it this coming year. This 

 also shows another tendency, which first became apparent 

 during this last season. I don't quite know how to account 

 for it. You will see that that is quite a sizable ear for Ban- 

 tam and has twelve rows. Bantam ordinarily has eight. I 

 have six ears with ten rows. The twelve-row ear, curiously, 

 has a few yellow kernels. The smaller ones are like Bantam. 

 When I found an ear which promised to be a large one — good 

 for seed, I tied a string around it. Finally, in the fall when 

 they were allowed to go through one or two frosts, I picked 

 them off. Just as I picked them. I photographed the ears. 



]\Iy other line of experiment has been with tomatoes. I 

 thought it might be interesting to have tomatoes with fewer 

 seeds. I finally worked so that two years ago I had one that 

 had no seeds at all. I photographed one that had six seeds. 



