310 Oft Indian Corn, Potatoes y ^c. 



as will be consistent with retaining solidity, and that 

 yellow tinge required to make it saleable. 



The proportion of the big yellow with the gourd 

 seed, may be determined by the length and thickness 

 of the cob, with wide grains ; and of the little yellow, 

 by shorter, slimmer cobs, with narrower grains, of a 

 brighter yellow tinge, and an increased number of 

 rows, in proportion to the width of the grains, and size 

 of the cob; which sometimes amount to upwards of 

 thirty, and seldom less than twenty rows. This sort is 

 firmer and handsomer than that formed with the big 

 yellow, and better calculated for high latitudes, but not 

 so productive. I am induced to believe, that by com- 

 bining those three, the most valuable properties of 

 each, might be concentered in one variety, in a much 

 greater degree, than at first sight appears, by selecting 

 the ears with the greatest number of rows, compactly 

 formed on the cob, and ripening early. The experi- 

 ment is easy, and the prospect promising ; for in the 

 present unimproved state of that plant, from ninety, to 

 more than one hundred bushels of shelled corn, per 

 acre, have been frequently obtained, and when the seed 

 has been improved, and the arrangement and cuhiva- 

 tion of tlie plant better understood, it does not appear 

 unreasonable to suppose, that one bushel per perch, 

 (160 bushels per acre,) will be obtained with equal fa- 

 cility. 



Mr. Stevens's crop of 118 bushels, published in 

 vour edition of the Domestic Encyclopedia, is the 

 largest I have noticed ; he introduced 26,880 plants- 

 per acre. A large ear shells one pint of corn ; moderate 



