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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
January 7 
Rural isms ; 
T. J Hughes, of Wheeling, W. Va , 
favors us with a photograph, reproduced 
in Fig. 5, which effectively shows by 
comparison the height to which the Mex¬ 
ican June corn may grow. It will be 
remembered that 22 feet is the highest 
growth of which we have heard. Mr. 
Hughes writes that the highest plant 
grown by a neighbor to whom he gave 
seed was 18 feet. The highest of his own 
plants was 17 feet. From 30 plants, there 
were only six ears mature enough for 
seed. 
A friend asks whether we know any¬ 
thing of the Salzer’s Golden Triumph 
dent corn. After two seasons of trial, 
he likes it well. The ears have from 12 
to 24 rows. “Would it,” he asks, “be 
wise to select seed corn from the ears 
bearing the most rows ?” He finds quite 
a difference in the color of the cobs and 
size of kernel. Some ears have smooth 
kernels at the tips, and occasionally 
whole ears look like flint corn. “ Would 
it be better to mix these characteristics 
for seed, or not ?” Again he asks: “Is 
it true that the corn will fill better if all 
the kernels are planted instead of reject¬ 
ing the small kernels at the tip, as many 
farmers do?” ' These are interesting 
questions. 
It was somewhere about 1882 that a 
quantity of seed corn was sent to us for 
trial by a reader whose name has 
slipped our memory. This was after¬ 
wards introduced by B. K. Bliss & 
Sons, as Qaeen of the Prairie. The 
next year, Hiram Sibley & Co., of Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y., introduced a variety under 
the name of Pride of .the North. As 
grown on the Rural Farm, there were no 
special differences in them that we could 
detect. Several years ago, we tried Sal¬ 
zer’s Golden Triumph. This seemed to 
be the same as Queen of the Prairie and 
Pride of the North, though we did not 
have either of them with which to make 
comparisons. We have since tried other 
early dent varieties that seemed to be 
the same as the original Queen of the 
Prairie, and it is our opinion that, for 
an early yellow dent variety, we know 
of no type that, all things considered— 
height of stalk, position of ear and pro¬ 
lificacy—is more desirable for the North 
than the above named varieties. 
Tt would, in our opinion, be wise to 
select seed corn from the ears bearing 
the greatest weight of kernels regard¬ 
less of the number of rows; but we 
should always consider the symmetry of 
the ear and shape of the kernel. For ex¬ 
ample, we would choose a nine-inch ear 
having straight rows and shapely kernels 
rather than a six-inch ear having twisted 
rows, even though the latter bore more 
kernels. We should always choose our 
seed corn with a view of establishing a 
certain type, selecting ears of the same 
length, the same number of rows, the 
same size and color of kernel, and we 
should select these from the lowest plants 
bearing the most ears and these the 
nearest to the ground. As dent varieties 
of corn are grown farther north, they 
are inclined to change to flint corn. If 
we choose to change our dent to flint, we 
should select the flint kernels of the tip, 
otherwise it would be better, in our 
opinion, to select only the kernels from 
the middle portion of the ear, rejecting 
the tip and butt kernels, the latter of 
which are almost always unshapely. We 
have often observed that the kernels 
about the tip of the ear mature later 
than those beneath them, just the same 
as the top of the plant is the latest 
growth. It is, therefore, reasonable to 
suppose that the silks or pistils of the 
tip ovaries are later to mature than those 
beneath them, and if all the kernels 
were planted (always rejecting those 
about the butt), the season of pollen- 
shedding would be prolonged and that 
in consequence, there would be fewer 
breaks or missing kernels in the ear. 
We know from long experience that 
the characteristics of corn may be greatly 
changed by careful selection in the direc¬ 
tion of what we desire. Our most in¬ 
structive experiments were made during 
10 years of selection of the Chester 
County Mammoth, a yellow dent, and 
Blount’s Prolific, a white dent. The re¬ 
sults were that the plants did not grow 
so tall, the suckering propensity was de¬ 
creased, the grain matured about 10 days 
earlier, and the average number of ears 
to a plant was increased. 
The Hale Japan Plum Again.—The 
R. N.-Y. being the first paper to plant 
the Japan plums and to talk about them 
from its own experience, is naturally 
desirous to keep its readers fully posted 
from time to time as to their compara¬ 
tive worth. The best of them are espe¬ 
cially prized at the Rural Grounds, be¬ 
cause they give us plums in spite of the 
devastating curculio and black knot, 
which may not be said of the European 
or American varieties, unless jarring 
every day during the early season be re¬ 
sorted to, and cutting out the knot as it 
appears. 
Our first knowledge regarding the Hale 
plum began during the year 1894, when 
Luther Burbank sent us a couple that we 
might judge of their appearance and 
quality. It was designated as “J,” 
afterwards sold to J. H. Hale, of South 
Glastonbury, Conn., who introduced it 
as the Hale. Our remarks printed in 
The R. N.-Y. of September 1, 1894, were 
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