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CORN CROPS 



This region partakes about half and half of the varieties 

 common to the regions north and south of it. 



Section No. 3. This is the " Corn Belt." Only large 

 single-ear dent varieties are grown. South of this belt 

 the dent corn is mostly white in color, but in the Corn 

 Belt yellow corn is as popular as white. The leading 

 varieties are : — 



Yellow 

 Learning 

 Ried's Yellow 



Dent 

 Riley's Favorite 

 Legal Tender 



White 

 Silver Mine 

 Boone County 



White 

 Johnson County 



White 

 St. Charles White 



Early varieties 

 Pride of the 



North 

 Early Calico 

 White Cap 



Learning is probably the most extensively cultivated 

 corn in the United States, being not onlj^ a universal 

 favorite as a field corn, l)ut also grown extensively for 

 silage corn. Silver Mine is probably second in impor- 

 tance. 



Section No. 4. This is more of the nature of a small- 

 grain region, but corn culture is increasing. A few years 

 ago flint corns predominated, but in recent years early 

 dent corns liave Ijeen developed and have largely replaced 

 the flints. 



Dent varieties 

 Pride of the North 

 Minnesota No. 13 

 AVisconsin No. 7 

 Early Huron 

 White Cap 



Section No. 5. Flint corns are grown principally, 

 though on the best soils below 1000 feet elevation. The 



Flint varieties 

 King Philip 

 Smut Nose 

 Eight-row Yellow 

 Hall's Gold Nugget 



