are an eight-rowed variety, procured originally from
Canada; the Cass corn, another eight-rowed variety, and the Dutton
corn, each of which averages about 60 lbs. to the bushel.

Maize is a principal crop in the Connecticut River Valley, Western
Vermont, and along the Lake shore; but in the high dividing ridge, and
in the Northern counties bordering on Canada, the climate is too
severe for its profitable cultivation.

"The kind mostly grown (observes Mr. Colburn, of Vermont) is the
yellow eight-rowed, though some prefer the twelve and sixteen-rowed,
known here by the name of the Button corn; but my experience in
cultivating the different kinds for the last twenty-four years, has
forced me to the conclusion that the common eight-rowed, mixed with
a kind called the Brown corn, does the best; the kernel of
the-latter bearing upon a chocolate hue, and the mixture of these
two kinds of seed imparting a deep rich color to the whole, when
they become blended, and enhancing the yield whenever the soil is in
high tilth. Of this kind, the writer has raised, the past season,
upon eleven acres on the Connecticut River alluvium, over eight
hundred bushels shelled corn, four acres of which, with extra
preparation, produced four hundred and sixteen bushels.

It will never do to carry seed corn from South to North, as it will
not mature in a higher or colder climate than that from which it has
been taken. Even half a degree of latitude sensibly affects the
maturing of the blade, and renders it an uncertain crop in our high
northern latitudes. To insure an extra yield of this valuable grain,
the soil must be highly manured, deeply ploughed, thorough
cultivated and hoed, and top-dressed with lime, house ashes, and
plaster. This done, it is the most remunerative and profitable of
all grain crops."

In Delaware there are many varieties, and everybody esteems his own
kind the best. The grain varies from pure "flint" to pure "gourd
seed"--of course the mixtures which are between these two varieties
are most common--it inclines more to gourd seed than to flint. Mint
weighs full standard fifty-six, the gourd seed from forty-nine to
fifty-two pounds, and the mixtures range between. Flint ripens from
ten days to two weeks earlier. It will not produce as many pounds per
acre as the lighter gourd seed. Soil exerts its influence over the
character of corn, a