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seldom planted in fields, except in regions where the larger kinds 

 will not thrive. 



4. Button Corn. A variety first brought into notice, in 1818, by 

 Mr. Salmon Button, of Cavendish, Vermont. The ears of corn from 

 which it was originally selected, on an averege, were from eight to 

 twelve inches long, and contained from twelve to eighteen rows. 

 The cob is larger, and sometimes grows to the length of fourteen or 

 fifteen inches, but the grain is so compact upon it, that two bushels 

 of sound ears have yielded five pecks of shelled corn, weighing 62 

 lbs. to the bushel. With proper management, an acre of ground 

 will produce from 100 to 120 bushels. As it abounds in oil, gives 

 a good yield, and ripens at least two weeks earlier than the Canada 

 corn, it has long been a favourite for culture at the North. 



5. Southern Big Yellow Corn. — The cob of this variety is thick 

 and long, the grains much wider than deep, and where the rows 

 unite with each other, their sides fall off almost to a point. This 

 gives the outside ends of the grain a circular form, which imparts 

 to the ear an appearance somewhat resembling a fluted column. 

 The grain contains less oil and more starch than the northern flinty 

 kinds, yet its outward texture is somewhat solid, flinty, and firm. 

 It comes rather late into maturity, affords an abundant yield, and is 

 much used for fattening swine. Mixed with either of the white 

 gourd-seed varieties, the Yellow Gourd-Seed is produced, which is 

 often mistaken for an original form. 



6. Southern Small Yellow Corn. — The ears of this sort are more 

 slender, as well as shorter, than the last named variety; the grains 

 are smaller, though of the same form, of a deeper yellow, more firm 

 and flinty, and contain an abundance of oil, which renders them more 

 valuable for the purposes of shipping, or for feeding to poultry and 

 swine. Although it is less productive than the big yellow, it ripens 

 earlier, and consequently is sooner out of the reach of the autumnal 

 frosts. Some valuable hybrids have been produced between this and 

 the big yellow, the Virginian white gourd-seed, and other large va- 

 rieties. 



7. Peruvian Big Yellow Corn. — {Mais amarillo,) the grains of 

 which are large, rather heart-shaped, solid, opaque, and abound in 

 oil. 



8. Peruvian Small Yellow Corn. — (Mais morocho,) with small 

 bright yellow, or reddish-brown grains. 



