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Each variety will be described by itself, and then the 
large and small varieties compared. 
Samples of each variety were taken at the time of havest¬ 
ing to .determine the amount of water and dry matter in the 
crop. The ears were spread out to dry in the corn house for 
three months and then shelled and weighed. 
Both flint and dent varieties were raised, and both small 
and large kinds of each. The flint corn varied from the little 
Wills’ Gehu Seventy-Day Corn with some ripe ears at three 
feet high, to the Giant Long White Flint that at eight feet 
high had not even by harvest time grown an ear fit to roast. 
Equal differences existed in the dent corns, the earliest and 
smallest being represented by the Wisconsin Yellow Dent, 
while the Brazilian Flour Corn represents the other extreme 
of no ears at all when killed by frost. 
SMALL FLINT CORN. 
Golden Dew Drop. This is one of the smaller hint 
corns, showing the first tassels August 1st, and the first roast¬ 
ing ear, August 25th. 
On August 18th it was low and leafy, four to five feet 
high, small stalks, not well eared, ears just showing cob. 
September 25th it was scarcely ripe. Total crop, 8.4 
tons per acre, containing 81.57 per cent, of dry matter, or 
2 . 6 $ tons of dry matter per acre. The green ears weighed 
4,820 pounds, dried down to 2,772 pounds of ear corn, and 
344 bushels of shelled corn per acre. 
Wills 70 -Day Gehu. This is smallest and earliest or 
all the varieties grown. First tassels appeared July 22d, and 
by August 14th, some of the ears were ready to roast. On 
August 18th, only five feet high, very many suckers, heavily 
eared, some ears being within six inches of the ground, extia 
good stand, no replanting, very irregular in ripening; most 
advanced ears already glazing; many ears only showing cob, 
most of the ears in full milk. Average per lull, thirteen 
stalks, six tassels and six ears. 
September 16th; ripe and dry. Total crop, 7.1 tons pei 
acre, containing 82.76 per cent, dry matter, or 2.33 tons or 
dry matter per acre. The ears at harvesting weighed 4, Jut 
pounds, dried down to 2,694 pounds of ear corn, and 37.0 
bushels of shelled corn per acre. 
Kin^ Philip. A red flint corn very early tor its size 
