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Stalks grow about 10 to 11 feet high on rich 

 soils. A favorite variety for silage, but is too 

 late to mature seed properly in the North 

 where early frosts occur. 



Chester Co. Mammoth: Ears 7 to. 11 inches 

 long, 2 J to 2| inches in diameter; smooth; 

 slightly tapering, rounded evenly at butt and 



FIG. 5.— Chester Co. Hammoth. 



tip; 18 to 30 rowed; cob red, large. Kernels 

 yellow, deep, narrow, thick, crease dented. 

 Plants tall. Matures late. Mr. E. S. Carman 

 says:* "We have never raised larger ears of 

 Chester County Mammoth corn than during the 

 past season. We have lots of ears 11 inches 



*Bural New Yorker, Dec. 13, 1884, p. 832. 



