Show how many varieties of coon coin Rec recently enily a man that had attended atten deil a good many farmers institutes institute expressed it as aa his belief that we have five many breeds ot of corn he thought it won would id be a good food idea to hold a congress ot of corn growers and decide on two varieties one yellow and tho the other white and then to advise the farmers to discard all other varieties and stick to the growing of those two van otlea or to one of f the varieties we doubt if the situation would lie be improved by such a move the development of corn varieties Is bound to go 90 on under the same stimulus that has given us more than 2000 varieties of apples a few of which are really good the tact fact Is that at present wo we know very little about the corn core plant as to adaptability of different varlet varieties les to different situations doubtless we will find that there are great differences in this regard we wa have yet to atour vari var lenos eues to our localities wo we will y suppose that the congress darned was held and that boone county white and learning were selected 1 aed as the varieties to be grown then what about the very large stretch of country in the north that la is growing only flint corn and can gro grow w only flint corn as it Is too cold tor the development of the dent varieties rie ties it Is evident that tho the season differs 9 greatly in length in ill various places and all that the corn variety that will do best in ili ii a certain locality must bo be emulated angulated to some extent by the time it takes to reach maturity after I 1 the ground gets warm enough to sprout the seed there la Is also a great difference in moisture requirements of different varieties and this thi a m must u t also count for much to in the dove developing 1 I 1 of new varieties I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 |