VARIETIES AND BREEDS 331 



Very Lates (150 days and over), for early planting: — 

 Natal White Horsetooth (White dent). 

 Ladysmith (White dent). 

 Salisbury White (White dent). 

 Yellow Horsetooth (Yellow dent). 



Lates (140 to 150 days), for early planting :— 



Hickory King (White dent) ; in parts of the Transvaal and Natal. 



Hickory Horsetooth (White dent). 



Yellow Hogan (Yellow dent). 



Golden Beauty (Yellow dent). 



Golden King (Yellow dent). 



Brazilian Flour Corn (White soft). 



Mercer (White dent). 



Boone County (White dent) ; in Natal. 



Medium Lates (125 to 140 days), for main crop : — 

 Hickory King (White dent). 



10-Rowed Hickory or " Louisiana" (White dent). 

 Yellow Cango (Yellow flint). 

 German Yellow (Yellow dent). 

 Eureka (Yellow flint). 



Boone County (White dent) ; in Transvaal. 

 Golden Eagle (Yellow dent). 



Medium Earlies (no to 125 days), for main crop : — 

 Iowa Silver-mine (White dent) ; in Natal. 

 Reid. (Yellow dent). 

 Star Learning (Yellow dent). 

 White Botman (White flint). 

 White Cango (White flint). 

 New England 8-row (Yellow flint). 



Earlies (95 to no days), for late planting : — 

 Wills Gehu (Yellow flint, 85 days). 

 North Dakota (White flint, 85 days). 

 Chester County (Yellow dent). 

 Thoroughbred (White flint). 

 Transvaal Bread-mielie (Flour corn). 

 Minnesota Early (Yellow dent). 

 Iowa Silver-mine (White dent) ; in Transvaal. 



285. Breeds Suitable for the High-veld. — On the extreme 

 High-veld (5,000-6,000 feet) it is now generally recognized that 

 Hickory King is too risky for the main crop owing to danger 

 from early frost ; many thousands of bags are annually lost 

 from this cause. Where this is the case farmers would be well 

 advised to discontinue growing it, except for very early planting, 

 and to choose a sort which will supply one of the three other 

 classes of merchantable grain mentioned in II 283. Iowa Silver- 

 mine is said to make as good a " mielie meal " as Hickory King, 



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