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able thing, the tenacity with which the stalk that bears black 

 corn holds on to it and makes the color of the grain black. 

 We have corn, you know, that is of a dark color, that 

 has wavy lines running through the centre like rice, but it is 

 remarkable how tenacious the stalk that bears red corn is in 

 maintaining the color. 



Professor Stockbridge. May I ask President Chad- 

 bourne this question : If he recognizes that as a reversion to 

 the original type? 



President Chadbourne. All the husking coin that I 

 have ever seen is of the flint variety, no dark color in it at 

 all. I have never seen an ear of husking corn that was any- 

 thing other than yellow corn. This dark corn has sprung 

 up in some way, I cannot tell how. I remember out in Wis- 

 consin a kind of corn — I have forgotten the name they gave 

 it, perhaps some of you have seen it — that has as many as 

 eight or ten small ears, and I don't know but twenty, on a 

 stalk from the bottom up to the top all around it, and that corn 

 I remember had black kernels and white kernels and yellow 

 kernels. The ears were all mottled with the different 

 colored kernels. I never saw the corn at any other time or 

 in any other place except at a State fair in Wisconsin. I 

 don't know where it came from or went to, but I remember 

 that particular kind of corn from the peculiarity in the pro- 

 duction of the ears, which did not grow as in the ordinary 

 varieties but started at the joints, each stalk producing a 

 large number of those small ears that had black, yellow and 

 white corn all interspersed. 



Mr. . I have noticed this peculiarity with re- 

 gard to red corn, that while white, yellow and blue corn 

 mix readily, and we have a variety of variegated corn, I 

 have never seen red and yellow corn mixed on the same 

 ear, except in these variegated ears, which appear to be a 

 distinct variety. I raise a large twelve-rowed yellow corn. 

 A number of years ago, for the reason that a husking is a 

 dull place without a red ear, I introduced a few kernels of 

 red eight-rowed corn, and have planted it successively for 

 five or six seasons, getting a few ears of red corn each year, 

 and I have never been able to produce a mixed ear in color ; 

 but that red corn has twelve rows, showing that it is a 



