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Journal of Agricultural Research 
Vol. XXVIII, No. 5 
Cream and Vaughn’s Ban¬ 
tam Evergreen. Reid’s Yel¬ 
low Dent and Boone County 
White, two standard varie¬ 
ties of field corn, were grown 
along with the sweet varie¬ 
ties and these were studied 
for comparison with the sugar 
corns throughout the entire 
experiment. 
Golden Bantam and Char¬ 
levoix of the yellow varieties 
and Howling Mob and Cros¬ 
by of the white varieties 
were planted May 17, 1922. 
All the others were planted 
May 24,1922. The soil was 
very uniform, deep, rich loam 
and the plots themselves 
level and well drained by 
an underground tile system. 
The kind and amount of fer¬ 
tilizer and the nature and 
amount of cultivation were 
the same for all plots. With 
the exception of Country 
Gentleman, which was more 
heavily seeded and later re¬ 
quired thinning, the seeding 
was uniform for all and a 
good, uniform stand was ob¬ 
tained in practically all cases. 
The seed was purchased from 
commercial concerns which 
regularly supply the sweet 
corn growers and it is be¬ 
lieved fairly represented that 
generally sold for canning 
purposes. 
METHODS 
In order that the samples 
of corn from the different 
plots might be strictly com¬ 
parable it was essential that 
the material from ears of the 
same age only should be com¬ 
pared. Inasmuch as the ap¬ 
pearance of the ear on the 
stalk had proved an unsafe 
criterion of age it was decided 
to tag each ear as the silk 
made its appearance. Every 
morning, therefore, between 
the hours of 9 and 12 
