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of a large canning industry in the North Atlantic and North 

 Central States. It is less generally grown in the Southern 

 States. It is believed to improve in quality as it proceeds 

 northward, Maine grown sweet maize being especially prized. 



" The first sweet corn recorded in American cultivation was the Papoon corn, an 

 eight-rowed variety with red cob, introduced into the region about Plymouth, Mass., 

 from the Indians of the Susquehanna in 1779."! 



Eleven stations have recommended lists of varieties of sweet 

 maize. The following list has been recommended by three 

 or more stations : Early : Cory, Marblehead, Crosby, Chicago 

 Market, Early Landreth; Medium: Squantum, Maule's XX, 

 Stabler's Early; Late: Ne Plus Ultra, Stowell Evergreen, 

 Country Gentleman. 



248. Number of Varieties. — The distinct names given to 

 varieties of maize are almost innumerable, and no complete 

 study of them has ever been made. Sturtevant^ describes 507 

 varieties and 266 synonyms classified by types as follows : 



Number of 

 synonyms 



18 



85 

 109 



I 



53 



It is stated that some of the varieties would upon further 

 study be found to be synonyms of other varieties. 



249. Varieties for Silage. — The dent type is used almost ex- 

 clusively for silage on account of its greater total yield of forage. 

 Experiments made at the Maine Station,^ where dent varieties 

 have the least adaptation of any State for ordinary field pur- 



1 U. S. Dept. of Agr., O. E. S. Bui. 57, p. 18. 



2 Varieties of Corn. U. S. Dept. of Agr.. O. E. S. BuL 57. 

 '■i Me. Rpt. 1891, p. 44. 



