44 [ ASSEMBLY 
Half acre yielded. Yield calculated per acre. 
Good. Poor. Total. Good. Poor. Total. 
Waushakum corn,1] A... 26-9 -8 2%-7 53-8 1< On. eee 
Waushakum corn, 2 B... 25-1 °-5 26-6 50-2 1-0 581-2 
Willow Brook corn,2 A.. 23:2 1-9 25-1 46-4 3-8 50-2 
Himira Corn.3B:. $.4.0.5:564 24-3 +9 25-2 48-6 1-8 50-4 
Arranging the results according to fertilizer used we have fore mer- 
chantable yield : 
No. 200lbs. —-400 Ibs. 
fertilizer. fertilizer. fertilizer. 
Wausbakum. corny. LAA. + Sescetinee ot 52.3 49.4 52-6 
Wanshakon corn.2-Biccsicenete) deers ae 48-7 46-2 47-7 
Wailtlow/ Brook. corn; 27A. 3. sense 43-6 40-6 50-7 
Hindrarccorny)! B.-aus ns cueesniee aeeanes 43-2 39-8 43 -0 
800 lbs. 1600 lbs. 
fertilizer. fertilizer. 
Waushakum Gorn cAs.fcsis caus celia ate atone Dea 57.2 
Weuenakum COMM: 2.0 aye ase ieee o2.7 55.3 
Willow Brook corn,?\A. c.c cee siie a ices ae 48.3 AQ 1 
Bimirea COM he ie ee ae ee ee 55.1 61-7 
As these seeds were selected, the Waushakum as the type of the 
best, and the other seed as types of the ordinary or poorest seeds that 
could be obtained, the results seem inexplicable except on the suppo- 
sition that the climate of this year was exceptionally unfavorable to 
the normal growth of the plant. What lends some force to this sup- | 
position is the exceptional circumstance noted, that the corn plant 
shriveled but once during the summer. It isa nearly universal belief 
' among farmers I have met that this shriveling during hot summer 
days is favorable to corn. The Waushakum corn has not yielded its 
average crop within fifty per cent, while the other corns have yielded — 
nearly double what the former growers from whom it came have cus- 
tomarily received. Until the effect of climate can be investigated, and 
its value as a factor estimated, we shall ever be subject to the chance 
of misinterpreting the results of plat culture. It is to be hoped that 
as we gain in experience and opportunity we shall be able to estimate 
the changes which a given temperature and moisture produce upon 
given crops. 
What is the influence on crop of the cane of kernel selected for 
seed? Is the shape of the ear transmissible, or does the shape of ear 
depend upon general conditions, while the kernel] becomes potent only 
for kernel? In order to determine this question a dozen ears of Wau- 
shakum corn were selected for their perfection of kernel and shape, 
and an equal number of good kernels were selected from a bushel of 
the most twisted and distorted ears that could be obtained. 
Two plats of one-tenth acre each, running north and south, and di- 
vided again into half plats were taken. ‘The crop on one-half of each 
plat was lightly hoed in order to keep free from weeds, and the crop 
on the other half of each plat received ordinary farm cultivation. One 
plat received the seed from the ears selected as perfect, the other was 
seeded with the good seed taken from the culls selected for their in- 
