Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 403 
grain, 837 pounds, or 26.1 bushels. Weight of one bushel, 31 
pounds. Percentage of grain to weight of straw and grain, 26.9. 
The following varieties have been in cultivation, but with too 
small amounts of seed to make quantitative comparisons, viz., Som¬ 
erset, Houghton and Early-Fellow. 
CORN. 
Comparison of varieties. 
The following varieties were cultivated upon adjacent plats, re¬ 
ceived the same treatment, excepting that the White Australian, 
being a smaller variety, was in hills 3^x4 feet, and those of the 
other varieties 4x4 feet—4 kernels to a hill. 
White Australian. —Planted May 9; harvested August 24. Yield, 
per acre, 4,488 pounds, ears, 59.2 bushels of 75 pounds each. 
This plat was adjoining oats, and was badly injured by chinch- 
bugs, after the removal of the oats. 
Cherokee. —Planted May 9; harvested September 5. Yield, per 
acre, 4,735 pounds, ears, 63.1 bushels of 75 pounds each. 
Yellow Dent. —Planted May 11; harvested September 2. Yield, 
4,378 pounds, ears, 58.4 bushels of 75 pounds each. 
Early Yellow Dent. —Planted May 11; harvested September 2. 
Yield, 4’454 pounds, ears, 59.4 bushels of 75 pounds each. 
The table below gives the yield of these varieties, in bushels of 
ears of 75 pounds each, since they have been in cultivation upon 
the University-Farm: 
Varieties. 
1871. 
1872. 
1873. 
1874. 
Early Yellow Dent. 
46.6 
52.1 
58.6 
59.4 
White Australian. 
72.5 
60.7 
63.2 
*59.2 
(Cherokee. 
56.6 
51.9 
52.7 
63.1 
Yellow Dent. 
49.4 
58.4 
Seed from tips, middle , and huffs of ears. 
In 1870, corn from the tips, butts, and middle of the same ears, 
was planted, and each year since, the tips, butts, and middle of that 
raised from like seed the previous year, have been again planted. 
* Injured by chinch-bug. 
