The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-28

grains are broad, hold their size well down to the cob and are of beautiful bright golden color. Where this variety l is well grown and kept pure crib Of It looks more like a pile of gold then any l corn 1 ever saw.
 Some years ago I found farmers in some of the best corn growing counties l of Pennsylvania growing larger type of the Golden Beauty. This was very sim | liar to the above in every respect except being larger, and the cobs contained from l twenty to twenty-four rows. The ears would range from ten to twelve inches III l length. This variety or type or the 1 Golden Beauty would be perfectly sate | for south Missouri, and for all points l south of this state.
 St. Charles White.
 This has long been a popular variety III many sections of Missouri. There are also | two types of this fine variety, the medium and the large, which are about the same l in comparison as the two types of Golden Beauty The large type of the St. Charles seems to have become almost extinct. Boone County White.
 For all general purposes over great range of country, l regard thls as the best all round white corn ever lntroduceu' This variety was first introduced py MT Riley of Boone county, Indiana. some writers place this in the list of late va rieties but | do not find 1t so. as grown in South Missouri, where it natures m from 100 to 120 days. It should De classeu among the large varieties of white corn The ears. as grown on my farm, range in length from eight to ten lnches. lhe circumference from seven to nine hlches, Rows from sixteen to twenty-four ana i,o time l find an ear Wlln twenty-eight rows. On a seed plot or six acres grown in season or lso. l found in the crop but two ears hay inr. twenty eight rows each
 The ears carry their size well out to inc tip and often the grains grow clear out over the end of the GODS. The gran, ia broad thick and carries its size well down to the cob When this variety Is vel bred it is hard to find more than six grains to the inch length of cob
 A first class crop of this variety will contain from s6 to S9 per cent of sheiied corn. This variety is heavy cropper and will grow well on both upland ana bottom land.
 Tn the season of 1906, from one bushei of nure. extra select seed of Boone coun- tv white | produced 4S0 bushels of good, sound corn or so bushels per acre, as the bushel of seed was planted on SIX acres. This crop was grown Tn Green county, Missouri, on upland with req clay soil The plot had been in grass nasture for several years, so no tertiiizer whatever was used. The early season was cold and wet and the cut worms re- duced the stand I was intending to gro.y 600 bushels or 100 bushels per acre on this plot and would easily have done so had not the worms reduced the stand. The Boone county white is fast becoming tba standard variety of white corn in Missouri. and I regard it as safe for nearly all sections of that state.
 There are however. Q great many other qood varieties In the yellow varieties mention may be made of Legal Tender, Gold Mine, Leaning, Reid's Yellow Dent and Riley's Favorite. or other White varieties mention a.- be made of silver Mine which has made great record in many sections of the corn belt Be- sides tho yellow and white varieties, there are a great many mixed sorts such as Bloody Butcher Mammoth Red Straw berry and Calico. These all have local values but it is hard to introduce or to bring out varieties into general use.
 White or Yellow Stone.
 am often asked which is the better for feeding purposes, the white or the yellow corn. The idea has long prevaiied among farmers that the yellow corn IS stronger Gas they express ip, ana petter for feeding purposes than is the white. Why or where such an idea ever started is hard to say, but this is right In line with the moth theory, a piece Of isnor- ance for which there Is no founoation'