The Ottawa Free Trader

Prof. Shelton, of the Kansas Agricultural College, sent corn to the Michigan Agricultural College which has been raised there for three years. It went back to Kansas as King Philip, it comes back well marked with dent. He says it is the effect of the climate, and not due to crossing with dent corn. Dr. Sturtevant mentions a similar case of an eight rowed flint corn, removed and cultivated in Ohio, became from seven years' use closely allied to gourd seed, being much dented, and the number of rows on the cob had increased to twelve and twenty. In Louisiana the continued cultivation of soft gourd corn from the West produced a hard flint corn, with a larger cob, in twelve years. At Lansing, Mich., dent corn has a tendency to ripen earlier and become round at the tip of the kernel from year to year, unless care is taken by selecting seed which shows prominent dents in the ends of the kernels. In southern Ohio and Indiana there is not that tendency for dent corn to change to flint corn.—Christian at Work.