. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing;. Corn. 436 I CORN. northern sections. The butts and tips have been bred to complete filling. The grain is very deep for such an early corn. Its maturity is assured every year. SILVER KING, EARLY MASTODON. The Early Mastodon corn originated with C. 5. Clark, of Huron County, Ohio, to meet the demand for a large eared yet early maturing variety. It is reckoned as a lOO-day corn and has a very wide field of tested adaptability. CHASE'S WHITE DENT. History. *"The original- stock of Chase's White Dent corn has been grown in southeastern N
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing;. Corn. 436 I CORN. northern sections. The butts and tips have been bred to complete filling. The grain is very deep for such an early corn. Its maturity is assured every year. SILVER KING, EARLY MASTODON. The Early Mastodon corn originated with C. 5. Clark, of Huron County, Ohio, to meet the demand for a large eared yet early maturing variety. It is reckoned as a lOO-day corn and has a very wide field of tested adaptability. CHASE'S WHITE DENT. History. *"The original- stock of Chase's White Dent corn has been grown in southeastern Nebraska for 30 years or more, and was known as the Tucker corn. This old strain of corn is quite popular today in some localities. It has a long slender ear, a universally white cob, and is an easy picking, hardy corn. In 1894, the dryest season probably ever seen in this section, this Tucker corn gave an average yield of 25 bushels or thereabouts. Noticing the hardiness of this corn we obtained some for seed for the next season. In 1894, O. E. Hall, while visiting in Arkansas, chanced to find a white corn with a very deep grain and short cob well filled at both ends. He brought a few ears home with him and planted them. We obtained a few ears of this seed, and planted it with our corn in a fertile portion of the field—a rude, but effective cross. Since that the improvement has been by ear selection entirely, until the last two years, when the row selection system of breeding has been prac- ticed. No pedigree seed for sale however. A son in the agricultural school, believing the corn a good corn for show, selected 30 ears for the corn show at Lincoln in the winter of 'o3-'o4. This exhibit at- tracted such favorable comment as to cause a representative of the Nebraska Commission at St. Louis to come to our farm cribs and examine the corn and purchase 100 bushels of it for that show, to represent the ; Breed Characteristics. Owing to the fact that this corn had no na
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