Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . Fisr. 1.^1 ICROSS SECTION OF CORN Germ. f. p. Floury part or while per cent of all the oilin a kernel of corn in the abovecase is in the germ. The factthat corn has a large or smallgerm is therefore indicative ofits oil content. The large percent () of protein in thehorny starch accounts for thehigher feeding value of well ma-tured corn, which always showsa greater development of hornystarch. starch, h. p. Hcrny p
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . Fisr. 1.^1 ICROSS SECTION OF CORN Germ. f. p. Floury part or while per cent of all the oilin a kernel of corn in the abovecase is in the germ. The factthat corn has a large or smallgerm is therefore indicative ofits oil content. The large percent () of protein in thehorny starch accounts for thehigher feeding value of well ma-tured corn, which always showsa greater development of hornystarch. starch, h. p. Hcrny part, or herny 350 Fig . ISli Dividing the kernel into threejiarts. the crown, middle, andtip, the following percentagesof the valuable food constituentsare shown :* A full, plump tip, as shown bythis table, indicates that thecorn is of high feeding value. Fig. 131-2 1.—Corn kernel divided into (c) Crown,which is mostly white starch: (m)middle, which lakes in some of thegerm and the greater part of the hornystarch and is therefore richest in pro-tein: (t) tip, which is richest in oil. Parts Percent Protein Percent Oi Total Crown Middle Tin CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CORN The animal body is made up of bones, flesh, tendons, skin, hair,horny substances, and a large, though varying amount of water. Justas the animal body is made up of varying proportions of flesh, fats,water and bone, so a plant is made up of various similar substancesfrom which this flesh, fat, and bone is made. These component partsof the plant represent a large number of chemical compound
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