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In the Southern states some farmers prefer a large-eared type 

 which generally produces but one ear to the stalk ; others like a 

 variety with a strong tendency to produce two ears to a stalk ; and 

 still others prefer the type which under favorable conditions pro- 

 duces from two to five ears to the stalk. In the two kinds first 

 mentioned are included varieties with red cobs and white grains, 

 the popular " red cob " corn 

 of the South. Among the 

 large-eared varieties may be 

 mentioned Huffman, Excel- 

 sior, Chisholm, McMackin's 

 Gourd Seed, St. Charles 

 White, Boone County White, 

 Rockdale, Singleton, and 

 Ferguson's Yellow Dent. 

 Of the two-eared type, Lewis 

 Prolific, Hickory King, and 

 Neal's Paymaster are espe- 

 cially noteworthy. Among 

 the prolifics, those of prom- 

 inence are Cocke's, Alber- 

 marle, Whatley's, Mosby's, 

 Hastings's, Marlboro, and 

 Batt's. In the northern sec- 



FIG. 62. Wimple's Yellow Dent corn 



Prize ears exhibited by students in the 

 South Dakota State College 



tion of the cotton belt the prolific kinds of corn do well as silage 

 crops on rich land, but they are not suited to poor land. Farther 

 south they are used as a grain crop even on poor land. 



The corn best adapted for New England is the 8-rowed and 

 12-rowed flint types. The most common and popular of these 



* Row A (Northern states) : /, Rustler's White Dent ; 2, Silver King ; j, Pickett's 

 Yellow Dent ; 4, Golden Eagle ; 5, Minnesota No. 13 ; 6, Pride of the North ; 7, Long- 

 fellow ; 5, Taylor's Improved Flint ; 9, Davis's 8-rowed Flint. 



Row B (Central states) : /, St. Charles White ; 2, Silver Mine ; j, Boone County 

 White; 4, Johnson County White; j, Hildreth's Yellow Dent; 6, Learning; 7, Reid's 

 Yellow Dent ; 5, Clarage. 



Row C (Southern states) : /, Chisholm ; 2, Commercial White ; j, Shaw's Improved ; 

 4, Schieberle's White Dent; j, Cocke's Prolific; 6, Ferguson's Yellow Dent; 7, Stein- 

 heimer's Marlboro ; 8, Whatley's Prolific. 



