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August, and leaves dry. It is supposed that iu Suwauuee Couuty it 

 Avill with ])roper care mate two crops. 



Ou account of its early maturity is considered au acquisitiou of great 

 merit iu Wilcox County, Alabama. 



A statement of Mr. A. J. Wright, of Claiborne County, Mississippi, 

 published in the monthly report for July, 1872, shows that the Cooley 

 corn received from the Department and planted March 8 and March 25, 

 on land of moderate strength, with a slight broadcasting of ashes, plaster, 

 and superphosphate, yielded an abundance of choice roasting-ears by 

 the 10th of June— or about as early as the earliest gaKlen varieties. 

 Planted nearly a month after the Peabody Prolific, it was in roasting- 

 ear ten or twelve days in advance of that variety. " We had some fine 

 varieties of corn from Kansas, and some of the kinds usually planted 

 here, but the 'Cooley' was superior to any of them, except the 'Pea- 

 body.'" Eeports from three other counties concede material earliness 

 of maturity and great prolificacy. Dr. Compton, of Jackson, is not, 

 however, satisfied that it will do to rely upon for a field-crop. 



In the parish of Terre Bonne, Louisiana, it is iireferred as an early 

 variety to any other. Planted without extra care in the parish of East 

 Baton Eouge, April 15, the product was ground in twelve weeks and 

 five days. If planted early in March it might mature without a drop 

 of rain. Mr. John L. Slaughter, of New Orleans, states that he planted 

 this corn on well-prepared ground, April 1. One week after it came up 

 a drought set in which continued forty-nine days ; yet, notwithstanding 

 this disadvantage, the corn was ready for table-use in about eleven 

 weeks, and fully matured in thirteen. Planted in the parish of Point 

 Coupee, March 12, the crop was gathered the last of June. 



Eeports received from five counties in Texas, all going to show that 

 this corn meets a desired want. Planted March 18, in Navarre County, 

 there were perfect roasting-ears June 11, and was ready for grinding July 

 11. Earlier by twenty days than other varieties in Chambers County. 

 A coiTcspondent thinks that if the season is reasonably favorable the 

 Cooley will mature in one hundred days. "It is the very corn for our 

 dry climate, since it will mature before the usual drought sets in." In 

 Williamson County it was planted February 26, and was fit for roasting- 

 ears about th6 first week in June, and thoroughly ripe about the 1st of 

 July. 



Matures at least four weeks earlier than the common corn. — Columbus 

 County, Arkansas. Valuable as an early corn and for its excellent 

 bread-making qualities, but is too hard and small for stock-corn. 



A farmer of Hamblen County, Tennessee, says: "Although a small 

 field variety the Cooley is as productive as larger kinds. In this lati- 

 tude we are visited on an average of two out of every three years with 

 a most scorching and ruinous drought, which sets in first at the time 

 our large field-corn begins to tassel, and the corn is in a great measure 

 ruined. This fatal result is avoided by this variety, which, if planted 

 in anything like good ground between the 1st and 10th of April, will 

 be in full roastiug-ear, and even getting hard, before these dry spells 

 set in. It is at least one month earlier than our earliest field-corn." 



In the county of Harrison, West Virginia, it matured in about twenty- 

 four weeks. The common corn matures as soou. 



Planted on the 5th of May in drills, in rich, mellow soil well prepared ; 

 roasting-ears about July 12, and matured in fourteen weeks from time 

 of planting, — Bellevue, Kentucky. 



Planted June 10, in Clinton County, Missouri, was ready for table-use 

 in twelve weeks. Yield 46 bushels per acre. 



