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the names principally local, few only having become of 

 general use. White Dent, yellow Dent, Yankee flint, cal- 

 ico, bloody butcher, late sugar, early sugar, red pop, white 

 pop, squaw, Chester county, or Pennsylvania mam moth, and 

 others that might be named, are known in almost all sections. 

 In the collection I had on exhibition at New Orleans, there 

 were seventy-five distinct varieties grown in Nebraska. 

 There are different types of growth under each of the prin- 

 cipal divisions named, showing distinct characteristics, and 

 which invariably produce ears true to their type, when 

 kept free from others; such as pure white, pure yellow, 

 pure red, regular mixtures, eight-rowed, and other num- 

 bered rows. The Indians have, by close attention, a 

 marked corn of precise and exact mixtures of different col- 

 ored grains on the same ear, each band having its peculiar 

 mixture. For instance, one band has all red and white 

 grains, another all black and yellow grains, another all 

 pure white, another all pure black, and so on, with various 

 distinctions, said to have originated as a means of detect- 

 ing theft by one band from another. All may be simpli- 

 fied under these heads, viz., Dent, flint, etc., races; yellow, 

 white, etc., classes; and large, medium, and small types. 



After all, nomenclature is of secondary importance when 

 compared with a standard of excellence. The first prime 

 point in an ear of corn is its nutritive substance. It 

 should show a proper proportion of protein, carbo-hydrates, 

 and fat. It is generally considered that the flint and sugar 

 varieties show a higher nutritive ratio than the Dents. 

 The latter, however, are in more general use commercially, 

 and therefore regarded as the standards. The average of 

 a given number of analyses of the Dent varieties show: 



