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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



April 



They were boiled and served up together, and ap- 

 peared to be alike, and equal to corn fresh from 

 the garden. 



"The cars are larger than the usual sweet corn 

 ^nd contain twelve rows. To save the seed, it is 

 necessary to place them in strong currents of air, 

 freed from most of the husks, and assisted slightly 

 by fire heat when nearly dry. In damp places this 

 corn soon moulds, and becomes worthless. The 

 seed, when dry, is but little thicker than writing 

 paper, but is a sure grower. The stalks are very 

 sweet, and valuable as fodder." 



A writer in the Rural Neio-Yorker tried it in 

 1851, and speaks thus of it. "Until it began to 

 tassel out, it appeared very much like enormous 

 broom corn, and exhibited no symptoms of putting 

 forth ears, until very late in the season, when it 

 eared out rapidly, and bore three very large full 

 ears on all the best stalks, and in some cases the 

 fourth ear was fairly set. Only a very few of the 

 stalks bore single ears. It matured rapidly and 

 very perfectly, but it was many weeks after frost 

 set iR, and the corn was housed, and after the 

 husks had become entirely white, before any of 

 the kernels presented the shrivelled appearance of 

 sweet corn. 



"That it will do all that has been said of it, I 

 have no reason to doubt. As far as my obsei^a- 

 tion during one season extends, I am satisfied it is 

 a most valuable acquisition to our sweet corn. It 

 grows freely, is of the first quality, and produces 

 m my garden this season far beyond any corn I 

 have ever seen. Beside the greater number of 

 ears on a stalk, each ear and kernel is very large, 

 although it dries down for seed to a very small ear 

 and kernel. Very few of the ears have less than 

 fourteen rows, and I have just noticed an ear of it 

 only 7 inches long and yet it had IG rows, and 

 contained more than 800 kernels. The day I 

 planted this com, I planted an equal number of 

 hitls of a very superior sweet corn, the kernels of 

 which most perfectly resemble this, and although 

 the exposure and soil was equal, yet the vStowell 

 coi'n surpassed it in every respect. I shall try it 

 another season with increased interest.*' 



Another writer in the same paper gives us his 

 experience for 1852. "When I read of the vron- 

 derful productiveness and keeping quality of this 

 new kind of corn I rather regarded it as a humbug. 

 However, I bought a gill of corn for 25 cents, and 

 planted it May 25th in rather an unHivorable spot 

 for late planting. But it matured in good time, 

 and produced from three to seven perfect good 

 ears on a stalk — and one stalk had on it sixteen — 

 the shortest about two inches, but well filled out, 

 and all ripe enough and good for seed. I wish to 

 record my vote in favor of the Evergreen Corn — 

 that it is no humbug.''^ 



1 will add to these trials of the article my own 

 experience for the last two seasons. I procured a 

 few seeds from the ofiice of the Working Farmer in 

 New York in the spring of 1851. Planted them 

 late, but owing to drought only G kernels came up. 

 I had 18 perfect ears from these G kernels and two 

 imperfect ones. This showed the corn a very su- 

 perior bearer. The growth of stalks was large. 



I had now seed enough to plant about one-third 

 of an acre, after giving away some to friends. The 

 soil was badly exhausted by tillage and was not 

 highly manured. But the growth of stalks was 

 large, and the yield of corn satisfactory, though 



the season was one of great drought and corn suf- 

 fered much throughout the country. Some of the 

 stalks had three ears and many of them two, with 

 settings for more, showing what it had a mind to 

 do if there was only food enough under it. I have 

 no doubt at all, that in very rich soil "there will 

 often be three ears upon a single stalk — and some 

 stalks of twice that number. We may then set 

 down the advantages of this sweet corn as mainly 

 the following : — 



1st. Its exquisite flavor is not injured by the hy- 

 bridizing, as has been the case with other attempts 

 at crossing the sweet corn with other varieties. 



2nd. It secures a very much larger yield of corn. 

 The number of rows upon an ear varies from 8 to 

 20 ; a very large proportion of them are 12 and up- 

 wards. Most of the larger ears have from 4 to 800 

 kernels upon them. Then we have more ears up- 

 on a stalk. 



3d. It prolongs the season of green corn in the 

 garden until frost comes, and if it be pulled up by 

 the roots and sheltered, it lengthens it out until 

 •freezing weather. 



4th. If you have a fruit room, where you can 

 command the temperature, you can have green 

 corn the year round on the cob. But as we have 

 no such room, we have not tried this part of the 

 experiment. 



5ih. It furnishes the largest amount of fodder 

 of any kind of corn grown in the world. Prof. 

 Mapes says, "the Sto well corn, when thickly sown, 

 will yield double the burden of stalks and leaves 

 of any other corn we have tried. It is more readi- 

 ly cured, and preferred by cattle even to the best 

 English hay." 



The only draw-back upon it, is the danger of its 

 going back to the originals from which it was pro- 

 duced, a danger that is common to all hybrids, I 

 believe, until they have become very thoroughly 

 established. Whether the variety of rows that 

 the difierent ears assume is any indication of a re- 

 lapse, the experimenter must judge for himself. I 

 have full confidence in the article, and believe it a 

 great acquisition to the garden and the farm. 



W. Clift. 



Stonington, Ct., Jan. 17, 1853. 



MILK TRADB OF NEW YORK. 



We have before us an elegantly printed volume 

 of 118 pages, published by Fowlers & Wells, 

 Boston, in which it is stated how the production, 

 manufacture and sale of milk in the city of New 

 York and the vicinity is managed. By Joun Mul- 

 LALLY, with an introduction by Dr. R. T. Trall. 

 We must say that the developments are of the 

 most astounding as well as disgusting character. 

 It is no longer a wonder that upwards of nine 

 thousand children die annually in the city of New 

 York, and as is supposed by the physicians, pois- 

 oned by an article called milk. 



Mr. Mullally, and all engaged in exposing this 

 iniquitous and brutalizing business, are entitled to 

 the thanks of the community for their efforts in 

 the matter. The book should be in the hands of 

 every head of a fiimily, that parents may see what 

 it is they feed to their children under the name of 

 milk ! The milk business in our New England ci- 



