230 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
White, | Yellow. Excess yield. 
eine os Number Yield Number | Yiela | 
Se | varieties per varieties per 1} White. Yellow. 
tested, acre. tested. | acre. | 
ATERTSSS. 3325's 5 14 36.7 bu 14 36.6 bu. ||) 0. Ebus| eee 
LINO Ss ace oss 54 63.1 by 101 δ. Ὅν: || 1.1 bu. 4 eee 
indiana... 3:..¢s. | 16 54.8 bu 28 56.3 bu Scs)e Je Ὁ 1.5 bu. 
GNSS) oo. + ee ; 55 54.2 bu 67 53.1 bu ἘΠ bo. = See 
Louisiana....... 30 47.5 bu 39.7 bu %S.bui= | Saree 
Mississippi ..... 25 | 43.0 bu 20 38.7%bu. || 4.3bu. | τον 
ORIGy ie sores 25 | 55.4 bu 34 51.3 bu. ADE, ||? eee 
Ptaby sto, | -1\ ome eens ΒΝ Bae eee | tr 
Average... -+| τὸν 50.7 bu. “ 45.2 bu. 2.5 DUs.(| ἘΞ Σ 
It does not follow, however, from this table 
that all white varieties yield more than all yel- 
low ones. Numerous yellow varieties are fully 
as productive as many white ones. It is worthy 
of note that this table shows a yield in favor of 
white varieties, especially in the South, where 
yellow corn is grown much less than in the 
North. If the best varieties of white and 
yellow were compared the relative difference 
would probably be slight. 
Corn palaces.— Much beautiful decorative 
work of a temporary character has been done 
with Indian corn. This work has been most 
extensively done in Sioux City, la., where for 
several years so-called corn palaces have been 
erected. This was first attempted in 1887 at 
Sioux City, where the idea originated. A corn 
palace, says the Pacific Rural Press, is covered 
and embellished, as with tapestry, outside and 
inside, with products of the field, corn predom- 
inating, ingeniously and fancifully arranged. 
In building the palace a large structure is first 
