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MAIZE 



CHAP. 

 VII. 



certain amount of fluctuating variability occurs. The tendency 

 is for the ear to be rather short and well filled, which is an 

 advantage for the High-veld as it tends to hasten the time of 

 maturity. 



As the local market is still prejudiced in favour of a broad 

 grain, it is a matter of opinion whether the broad-grained 



Fig. 105. — Two prize ears of 10-row Hickory at the Johannesburg Maize 

 Show. A, grown by Reynolds Bros. ; B, grown by Hutchinson and Shaw (Val 

 Station, Transvaal). 



10-row Louisiana type is not preferable to the narrower- 

 grained 12-row of the Hickory Horsetooth (although the dif- 

 ference is but slight), especially on the High-veld, where the 

 earlier-maturing habit of the former is in its favour. It may 

 be possible to develop a Hickory Horsetooth with equally broad 



