Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-11
(To be Continued.)
ORIGIN OF CORN.
Experiments Have Developed 1t Back
to the Condition of Grass.

Experiments Have Developed 1t Back
to the Condition of Grass.
A few years ago, says an Atchison
Kan. letter TO the St Louis Globe
Democrat, private eXperimenterS sue
ceeded in developing corn backward
until all the ears were on the top OF
the stalk and growing 50 small that
the stalk easily could carry them in
that position. Selecting the smallest
kernels of the smallest ears, the corn
gradually was led backward through
it's history until ii became not much
larger than Il good sized head of timo-
thy or orchard grass.
II is thought the plant was brought
from the south by the migrating
tribes, finally being adopted 10y the In
diams of Florida. and by them and by
other Indians was developed through
long periods of years, until ii Was be-
coming the one staple article of food
all over the territory now occupied 10y
the United States.
Indian Corn Fields.
When the English and French en-
tered their great struggle for the 'oS-
session of what is now America, I'M
mrnSr CurnfieldS were found as Tar
north as New York and Massachusetts
MaSSasuit fed his white friends with
corn, and ut n later date sweet corn
was found. grown by the Indians in
Massachusetts,. When Sullivan was
sent against the lruquuiS during our
revolution he destroyed vast orchards
of apples and immense acrragrS ul
corn DE Soto reports curniicldS ilI
southern Florida. where he is said 10
have marched through growing corn
and beams clear across the state IL
Tallahassee" The f'renChmcn VIII" SET
tied i'm the ST. Johns river valley were
fed with corn and taught how To cook
il. Capt Smith tells Of five varieties
of bread that wcr" made from corn hE
the Indians of Virginia. Th" pioneer
rulumiStS soon learned how to prepare
this new grain for food, and without
il they could never have made then
pasSag,. westward through the wilder
ness The Indians wcr" more adNanc-
ed in agriculture than is GENERALLY
supposed The industrious, Intelligent
Indians probably raised good crops nl
corn; the luafrrS raised very small
crops.
Among the earliest men there wcr" n
few Industrious ones and great mum
hers of ShiftlrSS ones. The proportion
of ShiftlrSS men constantly is being
lowered since il is becoming NOR" GER
tain every day that Shiltl"SSnrSS does
not pay i'm any walk in life; that the
man who practices industry and good
lrumluCt, and learns as much as p"SSl
ll., lives an easier and mnr" rnllll"f-
table life than the idlrr y few years
ago the yield of corn Ia the acr" III
South Carolina was eight bushels I,
the acre; last year this average had
Increased tu eighteen bushels.
The average for the country is TWEEN
ty-SiX bushels. Last year Jerry Moor.
a lG-ycar- old South Carolina boy. ralS-
ed 22S bushels of corn on single acre
Rut in order To do it he spent $50 "l
fertilizers and hauled 100 loads al rlci
earth ON his prize acre. But the cr"l
paid him Il net profit of $3.50. This
record has never been equal"d. al
though this year the hoy is trying Il
SurpuSS il. Jerry Moore. because "l
his accomplishment. has h'"oIn" a mere
throughout the country. At Columbus
ohio. Il banquet was gwen III ms non
or. but when hr Was called "n I" tel
how he did it. he hid his face III ms
arm in huyiSh confusion.