Lackawaxen Corn
A new variety of field corn. It is a white flint, eight-rowed variety, with grains very large and deep; cob small. Ears average over a foot in length, and in some cases reach sixteen inches. Usually two ears to a stalk. Height of stalk about eight feet. It completes its growth in ninety-five days, and has yielded one hundred and forty-seven bushels shelled corn per acre. The following is from the Historical Register of the Paris Exposition, 1878, “The new field corn named Lackawaxen was awarded a special prize gold medal for being the largest variety, both in length of ear and size of grain, of any variety exhibited by any nation. Under our own growing this season, it has not justified the above commendations.
Originally listed in: 1881 D.M. Ferry Catalog
A new variety of field corn. It is a white flint, eight-rowed variety, with grains very large and deep; cob small. Ears average over a foot in length, and in some cases reach sixteen inches. Usually two ears to a stalk. Height of stalk about eight feet. It completes its growth in ninety-five days, and has yielded one hundred and forty-seven bushels shelled corn per acre. The following is from the Historical Register of the Paris Exposition, 1878, “The new field corn named Lackawaxen was awarded a special prize gold medal for being the largest variety, both in length of ear and size of grain, of any variety exhibited by any nation. Under our own growing this season, it has not justified the above commendations.
Originally listed in: 1881 D.M. Ferry Catalog