Show wonderful corn A J mercer living near burden kan has some corn winch is tho rarest ever grown the patch was small but the corn is a kind that has never baua seen in this country before last spring mercer opened a mound on hia farm and in it found a lot of corn along with prehistoric relics showing that the corn had been put in there ages ago it was in a sealed jar and was about a peck in quantity ho gave away half of it to his neighbors and others who heard of it and wanted a few grains for a curiosity when planting time came he thought it would be a good idea to plant some of it and prepared a patch of ground near his house and planted about two quarts of the seed it came up and thrived well under the cultivation given it the ears came well the ears were about six inches long and the grains were close together standing up with sharp points the grains are small being about one fourth the sibe of an ordinary 1 grain of corn mercer thinks that this must undoubtedly be the original corn of this country from which the present haa sprung through long and high cultivation what is remarkable about it is that the mound from which it was taken has every evidence of being very old for trees were growing aln it that could not be less than year old the relics found with the corn are similar to aboy found in the mounds of illinois and ohio and this mound have been cc existent with those which are believed to have been over 1000 years old mer has bont samples of his corn tn frieada in the east and to the govern koeut officials at washington for worth tex gazette |