BOTANY AND VARIETIES 33 



From the earliest settlement of New England 

 there has existed a yellow, eight- rowed, hard, flinty- 

 kerneled corn with ears varying in length, according 

 to the latitude, from seven to twelve inches. At the 

 north this corn became known as the Early Canada. 

 As a result of partial failures in the crop of one locality 



322 323 



Fig 12— Maturity, Boone County White 



No 322, fully mature, sound ear; 323, immature, chaffy ear 



for a particular year, it became a common practice to 

 send north and get corn from some point where the 

 conditions favored a full crop, and to use this to im- 



