Por Corn 1535 
DISTRIBUTION 
Pop corn is grown successfully throughout the northern half 
of the United States wherever other corn can be grown, and at one 
time was grown in nearly every garden in New York and the New 
England states, but it has gradually come to be a sort of special 
farm crop grown in a commercial way by men who have found it 
profitable and have made the growing, handling and marketing of 
it a special study. The great bulk of the crop is now grown in 
Towa, Michigan, Hlinois, Wisconsin and Nebraska. 
VARIETIES 
There are about twenty-five different varieties of pop corn, but 
these are simply variations of the two distinct types or classes 
known as rice corn and pearl corn. The rice corn has kernels 
more or less pointed, and sometimes called “ squirrel tooth.” The 
pearl corn has kernels rounded or 4lattened over the top and are 
very smooth. These two classes may be divided into early, medium 
and late, and these again into white, yellow, and colored (not 
yellow). All of these varieties cross with each other so readily 
that it is difficult, under ordinary methods, to keep a variety 
strictly to any given type. The different varieties of both the rice 
and pearl corn may vary as to color through the several shades of 
white, amber, yellow, red, and black; also red and white striped. 
Some of the best known white varieties are the Monarch Rice, 
Snowball and Egyptian. Of the white pearl varieties, the Com- 
mon White Pearl, Mapledale, Prolific and Nonpareil are stand- 
ard varieties. Of the yellow pearl varieties, the most valuable 
are Queens Golden and Dwarf Golden, each of which has a yel- 
lowish color when popped and has the taste peculiar to yellow 
corn. In some localities the black varieties are quite popular and 
said to be very prolific. 
SOIL AND FERTILIZERS 
Any well drained fertile soil, except a low peaty or muck soil, 
is suitable for the growth of pop corn. 
Whether the soil is sand, gravel, loam or clay, it must have a 
sufficient quantity of available plant food elements to give best 
results. In furnishing any or all of these, one should remember 
