Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . voted to the growth of corn,Boone County White, Learning Yellow, MacMackins Gourdseed, RileysFavorite, Iowa Silvermine and Reids Yellow Dent are suggested asvarieties of dent corn which may be grown to good advantage. Forthose mountain plateaus elevated about 2,800 to 3,000 feet and whichhave quite cool nights it will be found that the flint types of corn willdo well. 12 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. NORTHERN VERSUS SOUTHERN VARIETIES. As pointed out elsewhere in this Bulletin, the best of the northern-grown varieti
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Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . voted to the growth of corn, Boone County White, Learning Yellow, MacMackins Gourdseed, RileysFavorite, Iowa Silvermine and Reids Yellow Dent are suggested asvarieties of dent corn which may be grown to good advantage. Forthose mountain plateaus elevated about 2, 800 to 3, 000 feet and whichhave quite cool nights it will be found that the flint types of corn willdo well. 12 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. NORTHERN VERSUS SOUTHERN VARIETIES. As pointed out elsewhere in this Bulletin, the best of the northern-grown varieties of corn have not proven to be the heaviest yielders forthe cismontane portions of North Carolina. Neither have varieties com-ing from the far South yielded asNwell as the best of those seed whichhave come from nearer home. In the Station tests, Biggs Seven-ear, aNorth Carolina originated variety, has as an average of three yearsresults, produced 2.4 bushels more of shelled corn per acre than hasReids Yellow Dent, originated in Illinois, and 4.2 bushels more than. (25) (26) (27) (28) Fig. 7.—Type Ears of Varieties: (25) Clevelands Pure White; (26) Fredonias Pride; (27) Thomas Improved; and (28) Horsetooth. Mosbys Prolific, bred in southern Mississippi. Southern corn generallyproduces a larger and taller stalk, and bears the ears at a greater height, than do those varieties brought from higher elevations and latitudes.The northern varieties, on the other hand, produce a larger ear in pro-portion to the size of the stalk than do Southern varieties, as is shownby the results contained in Table I. It will also be noted from these-data that the percentage the ear is of total plant of both Southern andNorthern varieties increases, with only four exceptions, as the yields aremade better. The average percentage of ear of total dry plant, as anaverage of four years tests, is, for the five Southern varieties, 40.9 per SOME FACTORS IN SUCCESSFUL CORN GROWING. 13 r 9 !gj Q : 5 2 o «o f