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VARIETIES OF MAIZE. 



The kernel is inserted upon a thick shortish reddish coh. Ear 8-rowed. It gives a white, 

 nutritious flour. Specific gravity 1-110. Specimen furnished by Mr. N. Salisbury, 

 Cortland county. 



3. Calico corn. Color remarkably variegated with bright hues and intermixed with 

 white. Cuticle thin, investing apparently a mass of starch, with a slightly reddish tinge. 

 Ear eight-rowed. Cob chaffy. Specific gravity 1-066. Furnished by Mr. Jewett, of 

 Addison county, Vermont. 



This is beautiful on the ear : it is cultivated mostly as a curiosity, or for popping. The 

 kernel contains a large amount of starch, and is deficient in gluten. It is the lightest of 

 all the varieties. 



4. White-flint corn (fig. 5). Color white. Corneous portion well developed, and invest- 

 ing the starchy portion. Ear long and slender, eight-rowed passing into twelve. Specific 

 gravity of that raised last year, 1-266 ; of the specimen raised this year, 1-301. This is 

 among the heaviest. 



This variety (the small White-flint) is early, and hence must be regarded as one of the 

 best kinds of maize. It is rich in oil, and gluten and starch, and hence for food it must 

 rank very high ; and as its meal is whiter than that of the yellow corn, it may be prefer- 

 red for bread, especially when it is intended to mix it with wheat flour. 



5. Middle-sized eight-rowed yellow corn (fig. 11) . Yellow. Kernel large, oblong, flat- 

 fish. Corneous portion well developed, investing a thick layer of starch. Groove single, 

 wide. Ear cylindrical. Cob comparatively small, from nine to ten inches long; rows 8, 

 and arranged at the base in twos. Specific gravity 1-316, and ranks with the 8-rowed 

 white-flint in value, and seems to possess a higher specific gravity. 



6. Golden Sioux corn (fig. 12.) Yellow. Ear large. Kernel thick and pointed ; width 

 subequal, sometimes higher than wide. Corneous portion well developed. Rows 12, 

 and arranged in twos, or may be irregular ; the number increasing to 14, and even 16 at 

 the base, when they become crowded and irregular. Specific gravity, 1 ■ 299. The cob is 

 large at the base, and hence is liable to mouldiness. It ripens late ; and from these two 

 defects, it is not so much esteemed as the smaller and earlier kinds. Its foliage is much 

 greater, and the exhausting powers increased. The meal is as rich as that of either of 

 the preceding kinds, provided it has ripened well. It is the Dutton corn of the late Judge 

 Buel, as I am informed by Mr. Howard. It was introduced from the Indian country, 

 first into the eastern part of Massachusetts, and afterwards into Vermont. One ear only 

 is usually perfected on a single stalk. 



7. Small eight-rowed yellow corn (fig. 15) . Yellow, 8-rowed. It resembles the large 

 8-rowed, only it is smaller: it passes into that variety by cultivation, and can hardly be 

 distinguished from it. That which was cut August 11, had a specific gravity of 1-241. 

 Probably, when thoroughly dried, its weight is proportionally increased. It is a fine 

 variety : being early, its foliage is smaller than that of the white-flint, and it frequently 

 produces three ears upon a stalk. 



8. Twelve-rowed Canada corn. Yellow, and frequently brownish. Corneous portion 



