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though the latter has not met the expectations raised 

 for it by the United States Patent Office. A variety 

 known as the Smutty White is also largely cultivated in 

 some sections of Massachusetts, and its yield is greater 

 than most others adapted to northern latitudes. The 

 Turkish White Flint, the Early Button, Peabody's Pro- 

 lific, the Golden Sioux, the Kentucky Field, the Wyan- 

 dotte, the White Gourd-seed, the Tuscarora, and many 

 others, might be named. 



In addition to these prominent varieties, which are, 

 in some sections, cultivated as field crops, might be 

 mentioned several well-marked varieties of Sweet corn, 

 such as StowelPs Evergreen, the Asylum, the Old Col- 

 ony sweet corn, and Darling's Early, to say nothing of 

 several other favorite early varieties. 



There is a variety known as the Rocky Mountain 

 corn, the kernels of which are each covered with 

 glumes or husks, which they lose, on cultivation, in the 

 course of three or four years. In addition to these, 

 many small-eared varieties used for parching, and known 

 as Pop corn, are cultivated to a limited extent in all parts 

 of the country, and among them Rice corn and Calico 

 corn. 



The culture of Indian corn is simple, and easily un- 

 derstood. It requires a deep, rich, and mellow soil, 

 thoroughly tilled. After ploughing, the land is care- 

 fully marked off in rows from three to four feet apart 

 each way, according as the variety is large or small, 

 when four or five kernels are dropped in a hill, either 

 by hand or machine, and covered to the depth of from 

 one to two inches. After the corn is up, it is cultivated 

 with the horse hoe or plough, to keep it free from weeds. 

 It is sometimes hilled at the last hoeing ; at others the 

 ground is left level, which is thought to be the best. 



When Indian corn is planted as a fodder crop, or to 



