Identifier: geographicdistri11plum (find matches)
Title: The geographic distribution of cereals in North America
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Plumb, Charles S. (Charles Sumner), 1860-1939
Subjects: Grain
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Biological Survey
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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are all from the LowerAustral zone, to which Mosbys Prolific is evidently best adapted. (10) Pride of the North.—This is one of the few Dent varieties thatseem adapted to the border of the Upper Austral and Transition zones.Sixty-two persons report that it is grown successfully in nineteen Statesand in the province of Ontario. With five exceptions, all these points arein the more northern States, notably Massachusetts, Kew York, Ohio,Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wiscon-sin, and Michigan. Pride of the North is reported in the Transitionzone in northern South Dakota, at three points in Minnesota, at anumber in Wisconsin, at one in Ohio, and at one in Ontario. It isreported to succeed all over Massachusetts, except Suffolk, Barnstable,and Nantucket counties, but it is doubtful if it will ripen outside ofthe valleys in that State. This varietv does best in the Transition andalong the upper edge of the L^pper Austral zones. (See tig 1, p. 11.) DENT CORN. 11
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12 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF CEREALS. (11) St. Charles White.—This is quite a well-knowu variety in theMississippi Valley States south of Iowa. Twenty-three persons reportit from seven States and Oklahoma. Three reports from southernOklahoma, northern Louisiana, and southern Alabama, come from theLower Austral zone, the other twenty from the lower part of theUpper Austral, in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee,and northern Alabama. St. Charles White may be regarded as anUpper Austral type since two of the three yields reported from theLower Austral (Louisiana and Alabama) can hardly be regarded aswithin the limits of successful or profitable culture. (12) White Gourd Seed,—This variety is also known as Gourd Seed,Improved Gourd Seed, Southern Gourd Seed, Big Gourd Seed, LargeGourd Seed, etc. It is essentially a southern corn, that is gener-ally grown in the Gulf and lower Atlantic seaboard States. Sixty-nine reports on it were received from seventeen States, includin

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