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If we test these results again by the figures for the two series 
separately, we have: | 
Series I. A: 
No. of No. ears Average 
sound toa weight 
Plants. ears. plant. per ear. 
But seed yielded......... 1980 2113 1.067 5.43 ozs. 
Central seed yielded...... 1976 2142 1.084 &.43 ozs. 
Tip seed yielded......... 2005 2255 1.124 5.40 ozs. 
Series IT. A: 
But seed yielded......... 1963 2229 1.135 5.24 ozs. 
Central seed yielded...... 1973: = 72175 1.102 5.50 ozs. 
Tip seed yielded......... 1966 2208 1.128 5.43 ozs. 
The weight of a fine ear nine inches long was 7.81 ozs., and this 
will serve as a measure of the evenness of the sorting. The yield 
of unsound corn was very light —- everything, however, was har- 
vested which had a husk enclosing, and hence we have the follow- 
ing figures for the two series, I. A and II. A: 
No. Weight 
sound No. un- sound Weight 
ears. sound. ears. unsound. 
But seed furnished ... 4242 689 16 percent. 1447.3 lbs. 59.6 4 per cent. | 
Central seed furnished, 4317 650 15 percent. 1474.7 1bs. 59.0 4 per cent. 
Tip seed furnished .... 4463 665 15 percent. 1511.2 lbs. 59.6 4 per cent. 
--These trials now continued over three years show that there is cer- 
tainly no inferiority in quahtity of yield in the tip corn, nor in the 
quality, however considered, and taken as verifications of our 1882 
results, seém to give conclusive answer in favor of the tip seed. 
There is hence no object in the farmer rejecting any portion of his 
ear corn, of the Flint variety, while shelling for planting, while 
. theoretical reasons as regarding maintaining his corn true to type 
suggest an advantage arising from the planting the seed of the 
whole ear. 
Corn, V artery TEsts. 
For the purpose of testing the prolificacy of varieties we planted 
in twentieth-acre areas, under duplicate conditions for this year, the 
maize advertised in the catalogue of Messrs. J. M. Thorburn & 
Company. 
It is extremely difficult to effect comparisons of this kind, as varie- 
ties which ripen late contain more moisture at harvest than those 
_ which ripen earlier, and hence shrink more in the bin; and even in 
} varieties that ripen at about the same time the larger cobbed contain 
more water than the gmaller cobbed sorts, and shrink more in the 
erib. The influence of irregular vegetation can, to a certain extent, 
be equalized by calculating the yields to a full seeding per plat. It 
~_-was our intention to secure an even planting of four kernels to a hill, 
: the hills being forty-two by forty-four inches apart, by planting six 

