. Yearbook of agriculture . Hogging Down Corn. Fig. 49.—X common practice that saves —iBK 1021 15 220 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, The Corn Crop. 221 pended upon corn as a principal source of food. The whiteman in turn adopted the culture of com in the very begin-ning and the early Colonies would have failed had thiscrop not been ready at hand to nourish and sustain western advance of our civilization and the developmentof our prairies are but instances of the part that corn hasplayed in our advance to a place among the nations of theworld. The history
. Yearbook of agriculture . Hogging Down Corn. Fig. 49.—X common practice that saves —iBK 1021 15 220 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, The Corn Crop. 221 pended upon corn as a principal source of food. The whiteman in turn adopted the culture of com in the very begin-ning and the early Colonies would have failed had thiscrop not been ready at hand to nourish and sustain western advance of our civilization and the developmentof our prairies are but instances of the part that corn hasplayed in our advance to a place among the nations of theworld. The history of the development and the importance of thecorn industry have been discussed in the preceding economic factors determining the profitableness of cornproduction also have been considered. During and sincethe World War, conditions have changed so widely and sorapidly that the factors involved have been out of adjust-ment at times with resulting extremes of profit and loss inthis as in other industries. The rapid decline in prices of most commodities during1920 and 1921 is but a repetition of history. Following theWar of 1812, and again after the C
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