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has been grown on the same farm by this family ever 

 since it was first taken to Connecticut. The color is 

 either cream yellow, or, in some instances, copper red. 

 The kernels are of the flint type, except that they are 

 slightly indented, although toward the tip many ker- 

 nels are found free from dents. It produces the longest 

 ears of any variety — fourteen to eighteen inches being 

 common. The stalks are larger than most of the flint 

 kinds, being eight to nine feet tall ; the season is from 

 one hundred and forty to one hundred and forty-five 

 days. This variety is not generally grown outside the 

 coast towns of Connecticut. The leiigth of season is 

 too long to make it a safe variety for seed north of 

 this small area. 



The following dent varieties may be mentioned 

 among those grown in a limited way in New England 

 and New York, but they are not widely enough known 

 to warrant a description: Blount's Prolific, Butler's 

 Dent, Farmer's Pride, Golden Dent, Hickory King, 

 Horsetooth, Long Island Dent, Minnesota King, New 

 England Dent, Sciota, Salzer's Ensilage, and Tyler. 



FLINT VARIETIES IN NEW ENGLAND 



The flint varieties are best adapted to New Eng- 

 land on account of the short seasons and the smaller 

 growth of stalks produced. Many of the older culti- 

 vated fields are so reduced in fertility that they will not 

 carry to a normal development the larger growing dent 

 varieties, and at the same time produce a good crop of 

 grain. By heavy manuring any of the dent varieties 

 which will mature in from one hundred and fifteen to 

 one hundred and twenty-five days can readily be grown 

 in southern New England, but for the states north of 

 Connecticut and Rhode Island the flint varieties will 

 generally produce a larger proportion of grain to stalks 

 and are surer of reaching maturity. 



