10 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CEREALS. 



Upper Austral zone, and in tlie Lower Austral in Louisiana, Missis- 

 sippi, Alabama, Texas, and Oklahoma. The reports from the Lower 

 Austral are, however, generally unsatisfactory in productiveness, and 

 do not indicate a high yield. The reports from the Upper Austral 

 indicate that it is better adapted to the lower part of that zone, espe- 

 cially in Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, KebraskajYirginiajWest 

 Virginia, and Delaware. 



(8) Learning. — This is one of the very best known, most widely grown, 

 and most productive of the Dent corns. A number of correspondents 

 report having grown it as long as twenty- five years. One hundred 

 and thirty-one persons state that this variety is grown, with minor 

 exceptions, in the Upper Austral zone up to its northern border, espe- 

 cially in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas, ISTebraska, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Jfew Jersey. Leaming is reported as 

 ripening all over Massachusetts, except in Suffolk, Barnstable, and 

 Kantucket counties, although it is very unlikely that it will ripen any- 

 where in the Transilion. It is said to yield well in Dakota County, 

 Minn., which is near the boundary of the Upper Austral zone. Reports 

 from New Mexico, ITtah, Idaho, and Colorado also seem to come from 

 points within the Upper Austral. Eight reports show that it yields 

 crops in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, all in 

 the Lower Austral, but as a rule the yields are much inferior to those 

 in the Upper Austral, to which zone this variety clearly belongs. (See 

 fig. 1, p. 11.) 



(9) Moshifs Prolific. — This variety seems to be quite restricted in geo- 

 graphic distribution, thirty-two ])crsons reporting it from five States — 

 Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississipiii, and South Carolina. But 

 one re])ort was received from Arkansas, one from South Carolina, while 

 thirty came from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. These reports, 

 with the exception ottliat from South Carolina, are all from the Lower 

 Austral zone, to which Mosby's Prolific is evidently best adapted. 



(10) Pride of the North. — This is one of the lew Dent varieties that 

 seem adapted to the border of the Upper Austral and Transition zones. 

 Sixty-two persons report that it is grown successfully in nineteen States 

 and in the i)roviuce of Ontario. With fiv^e exceptions, all these iioints are 

 in the more northern States, notably Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, 

 Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wiscon- 

 sin, and Michigan. Pride of the North is reported in the Transition 

 zone in northern South Dakota, at three points in Minnesota, at a 

 number in Wisconsin, at one in Ohio, and at one in Ontario. It is 

 rei)orted to succeed all over Massachusetts, except Suffolk, Barnstable, 

 and Nantucket counties, but it is doubtful if it will ripen outside of 

 the valleys in that State. This variety does best in the Transition and 

 along the upper edge of the Upper Austral zones. (See fig 1, p. IL) 



