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ent varieties. The variations gave four distinct colors, or perhaps six 
if we count well-marked shades of color; two distinct shapes of ear 
and cob, and five distinct kinds of kernel. A sample of fine appearing, 
uniform kerneled white rice pop-corn yielded nine varieties sufficiently 
distinct to be described. ‘These variations include ears of three dis- 
tinct types, five distinct colors, or counting well-defined shades, nine 
colors, and kernels of four distinct shapes, from a round to a beaked 
form. Several ears had lost all appearance of a pop-corn, and resem- 
bled in size and shape an ordinary flint corn. One sample of Minne- 
sota Dent corn, received from Milton B. Jarvis, of Canastota, N. Y., 
and which, as he wrote, may be tinctured with Dutton,” but the ear 
sent, as well as the kernels used as seed, resembling the pure Dent 
variety received from Minnesota, when husked, October 12th, yielded 
a flinty corn, the Dent character having largely disappeared. 
-CorRN EXPERIMENT — VARIETIES. 
The figures of the yield of the several varieties of corn grown under 
equivalent intentions, as calculated to the acre, allowing 80 pounds ear- 
corn to the bushel, read 
7 Good. Poor. Total. 
Bears OraEe SP TOlLiG: wcrc, Vn. aa ag nie eee se Cavs 0.0 V4.7 74.7 
MMA) Gives; wsibs dectes cand vex sisiesiew s 0.0 49.0 49.0 
Ciror pibley’s Pride.of the North ....0...6. 00056. 27.8 2.8 30.6 
C. 9. Chester County Mammoth................. 35.05: 8.5 .43,5.. - 
Sloman nnowed Kango Philip ice... piece acne cleyenis « 44.3 21 46.4 
Meee eer COn tN brash raya. csied’s Hee wees lalewie eae 49.8 .8 50.6 
D 2. Minnesota Dent (Minn. seed).............. 5IBi2. 2.6.);,62.1 
D 3. Minnesota Dent (seed grown in N. Y.)...... 49.5 2.0 51.5 
STOLEN CROPS. 
For the purpose of investigating into the influence of stolen crops 
upon the main crop, we selected three plats, and planted each with 
seed of the same White Flint corn, and subjected the plats to the 
same treatment. ‘The cut-worm, however, nearly destroyed the beans 
in one plat, evidently preferring the bean to the corn, as the corn did 
not suffer. ‘The yields were as below, calculating the twentieth acre 
plats to an acre: 
Yield. 
Pumpkins. Beans. Corn. 
Good. Poor. Total. 
lbs. lbs. bush. bush. bush. 
OC 12. White Flint corn and beans....... SOOT Dasa) oh ORG 
C13. White Flint corn. ene ae eee AGS oy OHO 
C 14. White Flint corn and pampkins.. vi aooU >.< 46.0°01,6.547.6 
Porato. 
Our potato experiments have yielded a large crop of information, 
Planted under an elaborate scheme designed for the purpose of esti- 
Tanne by the tubers yielded the value of methods of planting, we have 
