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MAIZE 



CHAP. 

 VII. 



246. Boone County. — Fig. 108. Class: late white dent; 

 rows, 16 to 22; length, 10 inches; circumference at 2 inches 

 from butt, J\ inches, from tip, 6 inches ; grain, medium 

 wedge-shaped, pinch-dented, rough. 



Introduced into the Transvaal by the writer in 1905 and 

 previously into Natal from Indiana, U.S.A. 



Fig. 107. — Two prize ears of Iowa Silver-mine at the Johannesburg Maize 

 Show. A, grown by W. A. McLaren (Vereeniging) ; B, grown by M. Geerdts 

 (Boksburg), Transvaal ; the tip of the latter is very defective. 



It has been grown successfully, but to a limited extent, in 

 the wetter parts of Natal, in the Eastern Transvaal (in warm, 

 sheltered localities) and in Rhodesia, but the conditions most 

 generally prevalent throughout South Africa do not seem 

 favourable to this breed. According to Sawer it is found in 



