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2. Twenty-two ears, soft type, very much mixed in color of kernel, 
ag white, yellow, blackish brown, slate color, copper red, pink, red and 
brown in various shades and stripes, many of which were flint. 
3. Twenty-four ears, soft type, very much mixed in color of kernels, 
as yellow, white, slate, pink, copper red, purplish red in shades, and 
many of which were flint. ? 
4, Hight ears, soft type, very much mixed in color of kernel, as 
yellow, white, pink, purple, blue, slate and splashed in shades, and 
many of which were flint. 
5. Hight ears, soft type, prevailing color yellow, but much mixed 
with white, brown, slate, pink and purple kernels in shades, and many 
of which were flint. 
6.-Thirty ears, soft type, prevailing color to kernels white, but 
yellow and red blotched intermixed, and many of these kernels flint. 
The summary of the yield is one hundred and thirty-four good ears 
and forty-two poor ears from eighty-six plants, or 1.55 good and .48 
poor per plant. 
The Mandan corn is the Squaw corn of the north-west, and not that 
grown by the Mandan Indians, as seems probable. 
Pop Corn. 
There are several types of pop corn ; the pop corn proper resembling 
a flint corn in all but size, and often in structure of kernel; the pearl 
type with rounded kernels; and the rice corn, the kernels pointed and 
sharp. We present our data for each in turn. ‘ 
Common Pop. 
No. 
No. seed No. Headed Bloomed mp good 
planted. grew. days. days. ays. ears. 
1. White, large kernelled pop........... 24 23 57 64 67 21 
GO PR Po ey aie 16 15 57 63 66 
2. Large white pop, nearly a flint....... 24 23 58 65 67 18 
Oh AL Re Cit es Gelecne 24 24 58 65 65 21 
3. New England pop, white............. 24 21 57 66 %3 36 
aed Sh eetabien 24 18 61 70 15 
£. WhItS DOPIe cl b whee oo a2 abe ol von oe oe 24 23 71 79 82 39 
Ch Sheath tee 24 16 71 78 83 34 
Of the eight plants noted, in one the bloom and the silk was syn- 
chronous, in seven the bloom was from two to seven days in advance 
of the silk; average, 3.5 days. | 
The description of the crop is given below. 
1. Forty-five ears of pop, rice and pearl pop type, and also of, flint 
type, from four to eight anda half inches long; the kernels, some 
sweet, others yellow and white flinty. 
2. Thirty-nine ears of pop, rice and pearl pop type, also flint from 
three to seven inches long ; one ear red, sweet kernels, yellow, white 
and red-striped pop and flinty kernels. 
3. Sixty-nine ears, all on type, but some yellow kernels; the ears 
from three and a half to seven and a half inches long. 
4, Seventy-three ears, pop type and pearl type; two red, the balance 
principally white; some yellow, white and amber kernels. 
The yield was two hundred and twenty-six good ears and forty-two 
poor ears from one hundred and sixty-three plants, or 1.39 good and .26 
poor ears to the plant. Smut was observed in seven of the eight rows. 
