| Show prehistoric CORN CORK THE following in the form of a cor from burden kansas appeared in the los angeles of dec ath A J mercer living near near this city ha has a patch of corn which is the rarest ever grown the pat ohis small but the grain is a kind which has never been seen in this country before last spring cpr ing mercer opened an ancient mound on his f farm arm and in it found a lot of corn Tiong with certain prehistoric relies relics showing that the corn had been put there ages ago there was about a peck of it and it was in a sealed jar he gave about half of it away to neighbors and others who wanted it for a curiosity he thought alp ilp i would be a good idea to plant some ot of it and prepared a piece of ground near his house house for the purpose planting about two quarts afi 04 the seed it sprouted and thrived well under the cultivation given it the ears came well and have now been harvested they are about six inches long and the grains which are small being about one fourth the sirie size of the ordinary corn are close together standing up with sharp points SM mercer amercer ercer thinks that this must be the original corn of this country from which the present indian corn has sprung through lon long and high cultivation what is in remarkable about it is that the mound from which it was taken is undoubtedly very old oid for on it are growing trees that show by their rings that they are over years old the relies relics found fludd with the sorn corn are similar to those found in the mounds of ohio and illinois and this mo mound u nd must be coexistent with those wh which i ch are thou thought to be over a thousand has sent samples ples of years ears old mercer 1 his ia corn to friends in the east aft dlo government officials at washington i |
