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The table gives a similar comparison of Lancaster County 
and Lincoln County acclimated calico corn. When compared 
at the Experiment Station, Lincoln County seed, acclimated 210 
miles west, produced plants which ripened twelve days earlier, 
were fifteen inches shorter, and had a somewhat lower shelling 
percentage and shrinkage of ear corn. The leaf area was only 
about two-thirds as great, the ears were smaller and smoother, 
and the kernel length shorter. 
1 2 3 4 5 6 
Fig. 4. — Illustrating character of varieties acclimated to various regions. 
Typical plants grown at the Nebraska Experiment Station from seed 
obtained from the sources indicated. (1) Martens’ White Dent from 
Kimball County, Nebraska; (2) Calico from Lincoln County, Ne- 
braska; (3) Hogue’s Yellow Dent from Lancaster County, Nebraska; 
(4) Minnesota No. 13 from North Dakota; (5) Commercial White 
from southeastern Kansas; (6) Reid’s Yellow Dent from Indiana. 
It is more important to know what conditions a corn has 
become adapted to than to know the variety to which it belongs. 
The original variety name of many of our best Nebraska corns 
is obscure. 
While many of the older varieties have come into use over a 
wide territory with striking environmental differences and there- 
fore represent many local adaptations, each local type has be- 
come fairly well fixed and affords the grower something definite 
in the way of hereditary growth characteristics. Some of the 
more recently named or introduced varieties have not yet been 
