Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1912 — Four Fully Developed Ears On One Stalk of Corn. [ARTICLE]

Four Fully Developed Ears On One Stalk of Corn.

“Some corn, believe me,’’ Is the language employed by a farmer who stopped at The Republican office this morning and looked at a stalk of maize containing four fully developed ears displayed in our window. The unusual stalk of corn is not a product of Jasper county, however, but was sent to Benjamin Harris, Sr„ by M. R. Halstead, of McLoed, Miss, who formerly Jived in Newton township. The corn was raised by S. F. Stuckey, of Eutaw, Ala, on very poor land. The ears are not large but each is from 5 to 8 inches in length and the cobs are all well filled with solid grain. The ears grow from successive joints and overlap each other by about half their length, making somewhat more than two feet of corn on an average sized stalk. Whether It is a freak found in a field of ordinary con* or whether it is the product of seed developed by a botanist, Mr. Halstead does not say. It should be seen by all corn growers and will be in The Republican window for several days.