BOTANY AND VARIETIES 31 



for the Learning. This variety is one of the best for 

 silage in southern New England. 



The Pride of the North is a dent variety that has 

 been introduced from the west and has been grown 

 over quite a territory in New York and southern New 

 England. This variety has smaller stalks and ears than 

 the Learning. The ears are yellow; kernels rather 

 loose; length of ears six to eight inches; diameter at 



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Fig 11— Large, Medium and Small Cob, Boone County White 



the butt one and eight-tenths inches ; season one hun- 

 dred and twenty to one hundred and thirty days. 



Benton corn is a long-eared, eight-rowed dent 

 variety which has been so modified that it is now nearly 

 of the flint type. As far as can be learned this variety 

 was taken from Pennsylvania to Guilford, Connecticut, 

 by a member of the Hubbard family, while a soldier of 

 the American revolution. It is claimed that the ccrn 



