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seasons, the yield per acre is from seventy-five to ninety 

 bushels, although crops are recorded of a hundred and ten, 

 and even of a hundred and twenty bushels. 



As grown in different localities, and even in the product 

 of the same field, there is often a marked variation in the 

 depth of color, arising either from the selection of paler 

 seed, or from the natural tendency of the variety towards 

 the clear yellow of the New-England Eight-rowed. A change 

 of color from yellowish-red to paler red or yellow should be 

 regarded as indicative of degeneracy. 



Said to have originated on one of the islands in Lake Win- 

 nipiseogee, N.H. 



New-England Stalk six or seven feet high, producing one 

 Eight-rowed. Qr twQ earSj which are from t(m to eleven 



inches long, and uniformly eight-rowed ; kernel broader 

 than deep, bright yellow, smooth, and glossy ; cob small, 

 white. 



The variety is generally grown in hills three feet and a 

 half apart in each direction, and five or six plants allowed 

 to a hill, the yield varying from fifty to seventy bushels to 

 the acre, according to season, soil, and cultivation. It is a 

 few days later than the King Philip, but ripens perfectly in 

 the Middle States and throughout New England, except, 

 perhaps, at the extreme northern boundary, where the Cana- 

 da Yellow would probably succeed better. 



It often occurs with a profuse intermixture of red, some- 

 times streaked and spotted, sometimes copper-red, like the 

 King Philip, and occasionally of a rich, bright, clear blood- 

 red. As the presence of this color impairs its value for 

 marketing, and particularly for mealing, more care should 

 be exercised in the selection of ears for seed ; and this, con- 

 tinued for a few seasons, will restore it to the clear yellow 

 of the Dutton, or Early Canada. 



Many local sub-varieties occur, the result of selection 

 and cultivation, differing in the size and form of the ear, 



