STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY 



MOORESTOWN 



NEW JERSEY 



Corn 



(Zea Mays var. saccharata) 



Drying Racks Filled With Selections of Early Malcolm and Sweet Squaw. 



Ottawa, Canada 



Central Experimental Farms, 



{Courtesy of Prof. A. J. Logsdail) 



Bantam was listed by Gregory as Golden Sweet 

 latter points. 



'several years" prior to 1873. 



EARLY MALCOLM 



History — Probably a native of Peru, 

 Darwin having found heads of Maize 

 embedded in the Peruvian Coast 85 feet 

 above the present sea level. Botanists 

 universally concede that corn originated 

 in America and as its close relation, 

 teosinte, is indigenous to Mexico, some 

 have placed it there rather than farther 

 south. In 1914 Dr. F. H. Knowlton 

 came on a fossilized ear of com in 

 Kuzco, Peru, thus giving us tangible 

 evidence of the geologic existence of 

 the species. It is one of the first 

 evidences of vegetables being trans- 

 feiTed from prehistoric to geological 

 time, possibly taking it back a hundred 

 thousand j'ears. The tjTDe of the fossil 

 ear has many of the characteristics 

 essential to the domestic varieties stiU 

 being grown in Peru and BoUvia. The 

 name com was gi'^^en it by the North 

 American Indians. The reference to 

 com amongst the Egj^tians of Biblical 

 times was not corn as we know it, but 

 some other grain, possibly wheat. Indian 

 corn, however, was found imder a com- 

 paratively high state of cultivation 

 on the discovery of the New World. 

 The first variety of sweet corn, under 

 cultivation, was reported in the region 

 of Plymouth, Mass., where it had 

 come from the Susquehanna Indians 

 in 1779. According to Schenck, there 

 were two varieties of sweet com in 

 1854. Stowell's Evergreen was offered 

 by Thorburn in 1861 and Golden 

 We have the word of Dr. W. W. Tracy on these two 



One of the Earliest Sweet Corns. New 

 No. 238. " Days to Mattirity, 55. We are indebted to Prof. Arthur J. Logsdail, of the Central Experimental Farms of the 

 Dominion Government, Ottawa, for this new variety, Early Malcolm, which is herewith offered in the United States for the first time. 

 We do so only after the most careful tests in otu- 1919 trial ground, which have thoroughly convinced us that Early Malcolm will be 

 extremely valuable to American planters. Early Malcolm is a type bred sweet corn originating from the Early Malakoff, which was brought 

 to Canada many years ago from Russia. There is now little similarity between the original Malakoff and Early Malcolm. The latter has 

 been grown with excellent satisfaction for a nimiber of years past by the various growers who produced it in an experimental way for the 



Dominion Government and has found considerable favor among growers in the Prairie 

 Provinces. Early Malcolm will open the season for sweet com two weeks ahead of any 

 standard variety offered in this covmtry at the present time. Many seedsmen claim that 

 Golden Bantam will mature in sixty days, but according to our own experimental work 

 here, it will not mature before seventy days. Even the old Extra Early Adams, which 

 is a field com and not a sweet corn, but which, unfortunately, is offered on the early 

 markets, requires seventy days for maturity. In our opinion, the sooner truck growers 

 give up such vegetables which are grown for their appearance only and not for their edible 

 qualities, the sooner will vegetables become truly popular the country over. 



Early Malcolm produces a slender stalk of three and one-half feet, the leaves are 

 very small, the ears are borne fifteen inches from the ground and will average six and 

 one-half inches in length. They will contain from eight to ten straight rows. Planted 

 May 10th, the ears should be ready for table use by July 5th. The variety is high 

 in sugar content and is delicious to the taste. The dry seed is wrinkled and trans- 

 parent. For cultivation in the home garden and for market gardeners and truckers 

 catering to a critical trade, we beheve Early Malcolm will immediately find a place of 

 its own. From the experience of others, including the experiments of the late Mr. Peter 

 Henderson, it seems quite necessary to import this corn annually from the far North 

 for otherwise the extreme earliness which we now are able to show would undoubtedly 

 disappear. Our supply of Early Malcohn this year is, necessarily, somewhat limited and 

 we would particularly advise those who are anxious to try it out to send orders in for it 

 at an early date.' Pkt. 25i, lb. $1.00, 5 lbs. §4.50, postpaid; by express, 5 lbs., 85^ per lb. 



Note. — Along with our trials of Early Malcolm, we have experimented somewhat 

 with Sweet Squaw, which is another of Professor Logsdail's hybrids, a cross between 

 Dwarf Squaw, a flint corn as grown by the Mandan Indians of Dakota and Mani- 

 toba, with the Early Malcolm. We beheve for all present purposes, however, that the 

 Early Malcolm will prove more satisfactory than Dwarf Squaw here in the United 

 States. The latter seems to be less troubled with smut and under certain conditions may 

 mature an earlier ear. However, for the present, we do not feel that it is wise to offer 

 it. If experiments prove that this supposition is incorrect, we will not hesitate to 

 The 5/8 bushel basket isstill used largely in New Jersey advise our trade to that effect. 



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Early Malcolm is the earliest com in cultivation. Read what we say about it 



