8 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CEREALS. 



Groups and Varieties. 



(a) FLINT COKN. (6) DENT CORN — Continued. 



(1) Angel of Midnight. (10) Pride of tlie North. 



(2) Canadian Eight-rowed Yellow. (11) St. Charles White. 



(3) King Philip. (12) White Gourd Seed. 



(4) Longfellow. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ 



(&) DENT CORN. (13) Squaw. 



(5) Bloody Butcher. ((?) sweet corn. 



(6) Golden Dent. ^^^^ Stowell's Evergreen. 



(7) Hickory King. . ^ ^ 



(8) Learning. (e) pop corn. 



(9) Mosby's Prolific. (15) All varieties. 



NOTES ON THE GROUPS AND VARIETIES. 



The geographic distribution of the above mentioned varieties is 

 given in order, as follows : 



(a) FLINT CORN. 



Flint corn comprises a comparatively small amount of the corn of 

 commerce, and is generally grown in the Transition zone in the North- 

 eastern States and Canada. 



(1) Angel of Midnight. — Reported by twenty- four persons as growing 

 and maturing grain in Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New 

 York, Ehode Island, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Ontario. It is 

 also reported as grown for green fodder in British Columbia, Sas- 

 katchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba, where it will 

 not mature seed. It is commonly grown in Massachusetts and Con- 

 necticut, but elsewhere only in widely separated localities. All reports 

 where it matures are from points in the Transition zone and in the 

 higher limits of the Upper Austral. 



(2) Canadian Eight-roiced Yellow. — This is also known as Canada 

 Yellow, Canadian Yellow, Early Canada, etc. Thirty-eight persons 

 ici)ort this variety, or one closely related to it, as growing in all the New 

 England States, in Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wash- 

 ington, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. It is, however, a stand- 

 ard stock corn of New England and the eastern .Canadian provinces, 

 and, in some cases, has been grown in the Northeast for nearly a cen- 

 tury. While it will yield satisfactory crops in the upper edge of the 

 Upper Austral, it is essentially a plant of the Transition zone. The 

 one report from Missouri probably names the variety incorrectly. 



(3) King Philip. — This variety was first distributed in the United 

 States in 1852, and is to-day one of the best-known Flint varieties, 

 being extensively grown in the Northeastern States, where it is highly 

 regarded. Forty-six correspondents report it as growing in nineteen 

 States and in the Province of Ontario. It is widely scattered (in the 

 Transition and to some extent in the Upper Austral zones) from the 



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