. Productive agriculture . r: The materials needed to do the Laboratory Ex-ercises suggested at the close of this chapter are: Stalks of dent, pop, and sweet corn, several ten ear samples of theleading varieties of dent corn, a corn tree, a seed-testing box filled withsand, a few yards of white muslin for making rag-doll tests, a bucket,and a pair of trip balances weighing to grams. 24 CORN 25 Acreage, Yield, and Value of the Leading Farm Crops of theUnited States for 1915 Crop Acri;age YiF,T,n Value is Doliaks Qorn . 108,321,000 3,054, bu. ?1,766,859,000 Wheat . 59,898,000 1,011,505,00
. Productive agriculture . r: The materials needed to do the Laboratory Ex-ercises suggested at the close of this chapter are: Stalks of dent, pop, and sweet corn, several ten ear samples of theleading varieties of dent corn, a corn tree, a seed-testing box filled withsand, a few yards of white muslin for making rag-doll tests, a bucket,and a pair of trip balances weighing to grams. 24 CORN 25 Acreage, Yield, and Value of the Leading Farm Crops of theUnited States for 1915 Crop Acri;age YiF,T,n Value is Doliaks Qorn . 108,321,000 3,054, bu. ?1,766,859,000 Wheat . 59,898,000 1,011,505,000 bu. 930,302,000 Hay. . 50,872,000 88,225,000 tons 912,320,000 Cotton . 30,957,000 16,134,930 bales 887,221,000 Oats . 40,780,000 1,540,362,000 bu. 555,569,000 Potatoes . 3,761,000 359,103,000 bu. 221,104,000 Barley . 7,39S,ooo 237,009,000 bu. 122,499,000 Tobacco 1,368,000 1,060,587,000 lb. 96,041,000 Rye 2,856,000 49,190,000 bu. 41,295,000 Rice 802,000 8,947,000 bu. 26,212,000 Total . 256,380,000 ?5,528,342,000. History of Corn. — Corn is a native of America. It is believedupon good authority that the Indians of Old Mexico and Central ^^~J^ -* •w*.^«jiSi»>»^ Fig. II. — A far advanced link in the evolution of our splendidvarieties of corn from Indian maize grown by the inhabitants of NewMexico. A section through the ear at a is shown below. America have raised and used corn for about twothousand years. Columbus wrote a letter to Fer-dinand and Isabella in 1498, saying, During my journey in theinterior I found a dense population entirely agricultural, and atone place passed through eighteen miles of corn fields. Colum-bus introduced corn into Spain, and from there it was distributed1 United, States Yearbook of AgricuUti/re.
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