Rural Heritage April/May 2026

even where only the grain has been removed, is not sufficient to keep up the fertility of the soil. The use of fertilizers with both systems has materially increased the yield of corn. Fertilizers alone, however, should never be depended upon to maintain or increase corn yields even in those sections of the country where they are used considerably with this crop. GROWING THE CROP Selecting a variety. There are probably a thousand named varieties of corn. Most of these have been developed by farmers in different sections of the country through many years of careful selection. Thus various sections of the corn-growing region have come to possess certain fairly distinct types. In the Gulf States "prolific" varieties of dent corn, which have a tendency to produce two or more ears on a stalk, are grown; north of the Ohio River, large, one eared dent varieties are grown; while in between is a section in which both prolific and one-eared sorts occur. Flint corn is grown in the North, particularly in New England, and at high altitudes in mountainous regions elsewhere. Some of the best known prolific varieties are Mosby's Prolific, Cocke's Prolific, Marlboro Prolific and Blount's Prolific. Among the most important large, white dent varieties of the Middle West are Boone County White, Johnson County White, Silvermine and St. Charles County White. The most important yellow

dent varieties are Leaming, Reid’s Yellow Dent, Riley’s Favorite and Legal Tender Among the early dent varieties adapted for the north are Pride of the North, Wisconsin No. 7, Minnesota No. 13 and Silver King. The best known flint varieties are King Phillip, Gold Nugget, Smut Nose, Sanford White, Eight-Rowed White, Twelve-Rowed Yellow and Longfellow. One should select the variety best suited for his conditions and then save his own seed each year or These plants grew 90 feet apart on the same kind of soil. The same crop rotation was practiced and the same fertilizer was added on each plot. The only difference was that the soil that grew the smaller plant was acid; the other was sweetened by the presence, near the surface, of a bed of limestone.

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