Show MOUND BUILDERS CORN CORK aalur baraw for cantaria aria lik 0 drw mo sd gd grain A curious experiment was made this by charles graham grabara a man of this county and the result lies iles upon the desk before your dent as he hb writes says a letter in the indianapolis di news last year mr A 4 A graham of mount vernon ind made a visit to the vicinity of alton ill HI and called upon a friend who had just opened a mound builders burial mound upon the mound grew several large trees among them au oak four 1 feet t in diameter and thus the age of the mound was established as considerable in it were found the crumbling remains of bones and among other utensils a large pot containing am a maize aize very much like our present common red corn of 01 this abis mr graham secured several grains and on returning home planted it it grew and the res result t was that he produced a f train atrain of corn co rn which is most likely the ancestor of the corn we now culli cultivate te in spite of having been in the grave for certainly not less than years it grew very rapidly and produced 8 a large well shaped ear upon a fairly tall stalk the ear is well seta set the grains being somewhat smaller than any of the present varieties except popcorn pop corn in hape the grain resembles dried sweet corn being rough and wrinkled in taste it is sweet and agreeable |