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There seems a relation between the height of the ear from the 
ground and earliness, but the relationship cannot be considered as 
proven in our figures on account of the difficulty in giving exact 
expression to what varies in different plants and which must be av- 
eraged in results. One fact was observed, however, that the earliest 
plants to ripen their ears bore their ears nearer the ground than later 
ripening plants of the same variety in i884. This observation offers 
a clue toward securing earliness in a variety, through the marking 
and saving for seed those ears in a crop which are borne nearest the 
ground. | 
Zea * InpentTATA, THE Dent Corns. 
An agricultural species distinguished by section of the kernel 
which shows corneons matter on the sides only, the visible starch ex- 
tending to the summit, and in the shrinkage which accompanies 
ripening drawing in the surface and thus producing a dent. In 
some the corneous matter extends strongly up the lateral sides nearly 
to the summit, and in these cases the shrinkage causes the dent to be 
of the form of a crease; in other cases the cornecous matter does not 
extend to the summitpand the whole top of the kernel is dragged 
in, forming a wide dimple or broadened rounded crease, often a rag- 
ged dent, or a flap of projecting and doubled pellicle which forms a 
projecting tongue on the chit side; in other cases the corneous mat- 
ter is strong all-about the kernel and the dent becomes a rounded 
dimple or circular depression. In some few cases, the kernels toward 
the tip of the ear do not indent, yet retain their dent structure, the 
corneous matter nearly including the summit; in other rare cases 
these cases become apparently flint structured. 
In this agricultural species, as in the Frinrs and Swezets, three 
races can be distinguished, which we designate as before by the 
capitals A, B.and OC. 
Race A. Ear-stalk medium to large. Ear cylindrical, tapering 
in lower third. Jernels broader than deep. . 
* Kernels colored. Cob white. 
1. Benron YeEttow. Synonym— Yankee, of Michigan. Ears 
ten to twelve inches long, often longer, and I have seen the dry ear 
sixteen inches, about two inches in diameter, very squarish in sec- 
tional outline, often compressed somewhat at butt, and a tendency to 
openness between the pairs of rows; 8-rowed; kernel very large, 
flatly rounded, orange yellow above, orange below, creased dented. 
Cob large, often red tinged in the interior. Plant about seven feet 
high, bearing its ears about twenty inches from the ground. This 
variety is grown somewhat in Connecticut, Dakota and the North- 
west, from which regions samples were received. 
_ ** Kernels colored. Cob red. 
2. Brinpue. Michigan Agricultural College. Ears seven to eight 
inches long, and about one and a half inchesin diameter. Lar stalk 
medium small; ear not filling well at tip, rounding at butt, where 
the kernels project very distinctly on account of their shape; eight to 
10-rowed ; kernel distinctly polygonal, broadest at the central, por- 
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