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with medium-sized grains and compactly set. The 

 King Philip, or eight-rowed Yellow, with long 

 slender cobs and large broad kernels, was raised 

 by the Wampanoags long before the landing of 

 the Pilgrims, and proved a greater benefit to man- 

 kind than their arrow-heads or tomahawks. The 

 Rhode Island "White Flint, which many of our 

 Eastern farmers esteem, was probably a legacy of 

 the Narragansetts. The kernels are broad, and 

 the flour made from them is nearly as white as 

 that of wheat. The Tuscarora corn is another 

 white variety. Our familiar sugar succotash, or 

 pappoon corn, so delicious when boiled or roasted 

 in its milk, was, no doubt, as its latter name would 

 imply, the only confectionary eaten by the Indian 

 babies. It is said to have been " cultivated by the 

 Susquehannas, and was brought to Massachu- 

 setts in 1779, by Captain Richard Bagnal on his 

 return from the expedition against the tribes of 

 the Six Nations, under the command of General 

 SuUivant." When ripe, the grains are thin and 

 wrinkled, and contain a good supply of sugar and 

 phosphate, but a small quantity of starch. From 

 cultivation and hybridizing, have come two kinds 

 of sweet corn; the white cob and the red cob. 

 The cob of the latter variety, when stripped of its 



