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for cooking or feeding stock than the fine, white, floury appearance of
the kernel, when cut or broken, would seem to indicate.

TWELVE-ROWED SWEET.

A large, comparatively late variety. Stalk seven feet high; the ears are
from ten to fourteen rowed, seven to nine inches long, often two inches
and a half in diameter in the green state, and taper slightly towards
the top, which is bluntly rounded; cob white; the kernels are large,
round or circular, sometimes tooth-shaped, pure white when suitable for
the table, dull white and shrivelled when ripe.

The variety is hardy, yields a certain crop, and is sweet, tender, and
of good quality. It is the parent of one or two varieties of superior
size and excellence, to which it is now gradually giving place.

_Field Varieties._--

CANADA YELLOW.

Early Canada.

Ear small, about seven inches in length, symmetrical, broadest at the
base, and tapering to the tip, uniformly eight-rowed, in four double
rows; kernel roundish, smooth, and of a rich, glossy, orange-yellow
color; cob small, white; stalk four to five feet high, slender; the
leaves are not abundant, and the ears, of which the plant very rarely
produces more than two, near the ground.

On account of the small size of the ear, the yield per acre is much less
than that of almost any other field variety; twenty-five or thirty
bushels being an average crop. The dwarfish character of the plants,
however, admits of close culture,--three feet in one direction by two or
two and a half in the opposite,--affording ample space for their full
development; four plants being allowed to a hill.

Its chief merit is its early maturity. In ordinary seasons, the crop
will be fully ripened in August. If cultivated for a series of years in
the Eastern or Middle States, or in a latitude much warmer than that of
the Canadas, the plant increases in size, the ears and kernels grow
larger, and it is slower in coming to maturity.

DUTTON.

Early Dutton.

Ears nine or ten inches long, broadest at the base, tapering slightly
towards the tip, ten or twelve rowed, and rarely found with the broad
clefts or longitudinal spaces which often mark the divisions into double
rows in the eight-rowed varieties,--the outline being almost invariably
smooth and regular; kernel as broad as deep, smooth, and of a rich,
clear, glossy, yellow color; cob comparatively large, white; stalk of
medium height and strength, producing one or two ears.