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slightly at butt, rather blunt pointed at tip, which is uncovered; 
kernels broad, a sulcus between rows varying greatly in width on 
different ears, in-some scarcely discernible, in others changing the 
whole aspect of the ear. Kernels dead white on top, horny white 
below ; cob red. 
*Our crop varies greatly in the appearance of the ears, which how- _ 
ever, on close examination, conform to the description. The kernels 
are all white on the surface, but in some ears flesh colored, and in 
others white below. Yellow and purple striped dent kernels a few. 
Not pure as a variety. 
QUEEN OF THE Prairiz, Thorburn. 
Ears six to eight inches long; ear-stalk small; ear a little too 
strongly tapering through suppression of rows in lower part, round- 
ing strongly at butt, rather pointed at tip, which is not usually filled; 
kernel deep, no sulcus between rows, flat and square-cornered, orange 
yellow above, deep orange below; cob red; ears three and one- 
half feet above ground; plant nine feet high, twelve to fifteen 
leaved. | 
*Our crop shows two types of ears — one, the true one, answering 
to description, the other with sulci between the rows and resembling 
Wisconsin yellow. Some few white and a few purple-striped dent 
kernels. 
Sixty-pay Dent, Thorburn. 
Ears six to nine inches long; ear-stalk small to medium; ear 
slightly tapering, rather bluntly rounded at butt and tip, the latter 
well filled, twelve to eighteen-rowed; the kernel golden yellow on 
summit, orange below; cob red; a sulcus, narrow or broad, but 
deep, between the rows, thus causing a very variable appearance to 
the ears. | 
*In our crop some ears of the Chester county Mammoth type, and 
other ears, an eighteen-rowed flint, with red cob, and which can be 
referred to a North Carolina variety called Franklin’s Yellow. A 
few ears are sixteen-rowed, the kernels arranged in pairs, with broad 
and deep sulci, the kernels so rounded as to remind of rice pop, a 
dimple on summit, the ears tapering strongly, rounding strongly and 
pointing to the strongly-covered tip, almost cone form, the color 
golden yellow in the dimple, orange as to the rest of the kernel. 
Other ears, yet, resemble the flint ears in shape, color of ear and 
kernel, but the kernels distinctly dented with a long crease, and all 
the kernels toward the tip, flint; one of the very few cases of flint 
and dent kernels on the same ear that have come under our obser- 
vation. 
CULTIVATION oF CoRN. 
For the purpose of measuring the effect of cultivation on corn, 
Series I A plats one to five, and Series II A plats one to five were 
selected, the plats one-tenth of an acre each; the hills forty-two by 
