The Northern Flint Corns

Abstract

The slender-eared, wide-kernellcd flint corns of New York State and New England were for centuries (see Table III) the commonest type of maize in eastern North America.As dent varieties pushed northward and as earlier and earlier varieties of dents have been developed, these wide-seeded flints have been restricted to an ever-narrowing fringe along the northern edge of maize cultivation.Today they are of secondary economic importance but their role in the production of the very varieties which supplanted them makes their study imperative to the modern corn-breeder.In addition to their intrinsic interest as a well-marked and 1947]