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Planted May 25, without extra care, was ready for table-use in twelve 

 weeks, aud matured iu eighteen, in Ogle County, Illinois. In the county 

 of La Salle the yield was 10 bushels less per acre than other corn. No 

 earlier than the Dent corns, nor any better in quality. 



In Orange County, Indiana, was seventeen to nineteen days earlier 

 than the white corn grown in the vicinity, but did not yield as much by 

 G or 8 bushels per acre, both treated alike. Not earlier than some other 

 varieties of white-Hint in common cultivation, nor equal to some of them 

 in productiveness, — Delaware County. Yields to 10 per cent, less than 

 the common corn, but valuable because it ripens iu time to allow the 

 plowing up of corn-stubble for wheat-sowing, — Orange County. 



In Oakland County, Michigan, was fit for table-use in thirteen weeks, 

 and fully ripened in seventeen ; was about two weeks later than com- 

 mon yellow corn idanted same day. 



Planted in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, May 3, was lit for table-use 

 iu eighty-nine days, and lor cutting iu one hundred and eighteen ; not 

 fully ripe until September 20, or one hundred and twenty-eight days. 

 Pronounced a failure by several farmers in Dunn County. In Dodge 

 County, planted May 20, was fit for table-use in twelve weeks, and for 

 the crib in fifteen. 



In Des Moines County, Iowa, planted May 23, fully two-thirds of the 

 ears were ripe at the end of fourteen weeks. Satisfied with the variety. 

 Planted May 24, in Mitchell County, was ripe September 20. Ears largo 

 and heavy ; often two good sound ones to a stalk. 



Earlier than any variety ever raised in Baltimore County, Maryland. 



Planted April 25, in Albemarle County, Virginia, it was'fit for table- 

 use July 20, and was harvested August 19. Another experimenter in 

 same county says it is fit only for table-use in that latitude, and will 

 not produce the amount of forage or grain yielded by the largo Southern 

 varieties. 



A farmer of Tyrrell County, Forth Carolina, thinks that two crops can 

 bo successfully raised in that State. Planting 7th of May, he had from 

 the product good meal within fourteen weeks. A farmer of Halifax 

 County says it is no earlier, and is less prolific than other varieties. 



Matures before the usual summer droughts in Floyd County, Georgia. 

 "Will do for a market-garden corn, but will never take the place of "our 

 sweet aud field corn, the ears being smaller and the grains flintier." Two 

 reports from Cobb County recommend it for earliness and excellence, 

 but not for quantity of yield as compared with white corn usually grown. 

 Early yields reported in Brooke and Pike Counties ; in the latter 25 

 bushels per acre. 



As cited in the monthly report of the Department for July, 1872, Mr. 

 J. D. Wolfe, of Pensacola, Florida, says that he marketed his i)roduct two 

 weeks in advance of all other corn, and that for earl}- maturity and pro- 

 ductiveness it is unrivaled in that section. On one-sixth of an acre, 

 although the season was unfavorable, he raised one hundred and ten 

 dozen ears of good size, which netted in market $21.75, or at the rate of 

 $148.50 per acre. Mr. Wolfe planted his corn at ditierent times, with 

 reference to having roasting-ears, until the frosts in November. Hav- 

 ing planted peas between the rows, he would have, in addition to his 

 corn aud -pea, product, corn-fodder and forage at the rate of two tons to 

 the acre, the ground being cleared in time for a crop of turnips, ready 

 for the market in January. In a subsequent report he states that he 

 planted about the 18th of March ; commenced using the corn about 24th 

 of June, and all Avas ijulled by July 15 ; fully matured by the middle of 



