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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-Jlint 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- 
tish. 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 
