4u ON INDIAN CORN. 



eight ears. One of my neighbors informed me that 

 he had a stalk with ten perfect ears on it, and that he 

 intended to send the same to the museum at Bahi- 

 more. In addition to the number of ears, and of 

 course the great increase in quantity unshelled, it may 

 be mentioned, that it yields much more than com- 

 mon corn when shelled. Some gentlemen, in whom 

 I have full confidence, informed me they shelled a 

 barrel (ten bushels of ears) of my kind of corn, which 

 measured a little more than six bushels. The com- 

 mon kind of corn will measure about five bushels 

 only. 1 believe 1 raise double or nearly so, to what 

 I could with any other corn I have ever seen. I gen- 

 erally plant the corn about the first of May, and place 

 the hills five feet apart each way, and have two stalks 

 in a hill. 1 can supply you with all the seed you 

 may need, and I suppose I have now in my corn 

 house fifty, and perhaps more stalks, with the corn 

 on them as it grew in the field, and none with less 

 than ybwr, and some six or seven ears on them. I will 

 with pleasure send you some of these stalks, and also 

 some seed corn, if i can get an opportunity. 



Early last spring I let George Law, Esq., of Balti- 

 more city, have some of this seed corn : he sent it to 

 his friend in Ilhnois, with instructions how to man- 

 age it. A few weeks since, he informed me that the 

 increase was one hundred and twenty bushels on an 

 acre ; that there was no corn in Illinois like it, and 

 that it produced more fodder than any other kind. I 

 have supplied many friends with seed corn, but some 

 of them have planted it with other corn, and will, I 

 fear, find it degenerate. 



1 have lately been enquired of if this corn is not 

 later than other kinds .^ it is rather earlier; certain- 

 ly not later. Corn planted in moist or wet soils, will 

 not ripen so quick as that which is planted in a dry 

 soil. In the former, there will be found more damp- 

 ness in the cob, although the kernel may appear 



