Q4> Experiments with Indian Corn, 



containing forty plants, every four rows may be presumed to 

 yield about one bushel of clean corn, or fourteen bushels in 

 the whole, or seventy-four bushels to the acre. 



No. 1. Sweet Corn is used principally as a culinary vege- 

 table, as a substitute for peas in a dry season, and can be 

 therefore of little importance in a country which at all times 

 furnishes such large supplies (of what I may, I trust, say there 

 cannot be two opinions about) of a better vegetable. 



No. 2. Mats quarantaine appears to be an early variety, not 

 much unlike No. 10., and therefore its merits may rest on the 

 proof of that. 



No. 3. The Early Golden, or Sioux corn, is a very early 

 variety, said to have been originally brought from among the 

 Sioux Indians, and, as an early bright yellow corn, may be 

 entitled to our consideration. 



Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7. are well known varieties, grown throughout 

 the middle states of North America, and I have no doubt ex- 

 tensively also in South America. They are admitted to yield 

 from forty to sixty bushels of clean corn per acre, as the soil, 

 situation, culture and season may admit, but at present they 

 are of no use here as an article of field culture. 



No. 8. WJiite Pearl Com (which I must really consider a dis- 

 tinct variety, despite of your doubts in the last Number, from 

 its very different manner of growth, yielding a much greater 

 foliage, and coming into bloom four or six weeks later than any 

 other), could a supply of seed be obtained, might be made, as 

 an article of forage in dry seasons, a crop of considerable value 

 to the farmer for the supply of his cattle. 



No. 9. Chicken Com is a very diminutive variety, not exceed- 

 ing 1 8 in. in height, rarely more than one stem, and may be 

 planted in rows 18 in. asunder, the plants not more than 10 

 or 1 2 in. apart ; consequently a great quantity may be placed 

 on a limited space. It is very prolific, and has ripened tho- 

 roughly this season. 



No. 10. Cobbetfs Early Com, which is nothing more than 

 what is well known in America as the Nova Scotia Corn, 

 grows about 3 ft. high, and may be planted in rows 2 ft. asun- 

 der, and the plants about 1 8 in. apart. It is an abundant 

 bearer, as all the early varieties must necessarily be, from the 

 expansion of their blossoms at a season when the high tem- 

 perature insures a dispersion of the pollen from the stamini- 

 ferous flower. 



Having thus gone through this list, I have now to offer a 

 comparative estimate on the probable results of culture of 

 those varieties which may be considered available to us 

 from their disposition to ripen in our climate, as compared 



