Archive image from page 456 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Fig. 612. Good com tips. The nose or end is well covered with kernels. can Palace. One item is 4,900,300 fanegas, or 490,030,000 pounds, of maize. In 1539, De Soto, in Florida, speaks of Indian villages surrounded by extensive fields of corn. In one instance he narrates that his army passed through continuous fields of maize for two leagues. In one place they found 500 measures of gro
Archive image from page 456 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 Fig. 612. Good com tips. The nose or end is well covered with kernels. can Palace. One item is 4,900,300 fanegas, or 490,030,000 pounds, of maize. In 1539, De Soto, in Florida, speaks of Indian villages surrounded by extensive fields of corn. In one instance he narrates that his army passed through continuous fields of maize for two leagues. In one place they found 500 measures of ground maize, besides a large quantity of grain. The Puritans, in King Philip's War in 1675, 'took possession of 1,000 acres of corn, which was har- vested by the English and disposed according to their direction.' In 1680, La Salle found stores of corn in Illinois that the Indians had placed under ground for seed and subsistence. In his expedition Fig. 613. Good com butts. against the Seneca Indians, Marquis de Nouville says, 'On the 14th of July, 1685. . . . We remained at the four villages of the Senecas ten days. All the time we spent in destroying the corn, which, includ- ing the old corn that was in cache, which we burned, was in such great abundance that the loss was computed at 400,000 minots, or 1,200,000 bushels.' This was in Ontario county, New York. Place of corn in American agriculture. From the time of the early settlements, when maize saved the colonists from starvation, till the present, this crop has held an important place, not only in American agriculture, but in the develop- ment and progress of this country. Other crops are of vital importance in certain limited sections ; so is the corn crop; but in addition to this it is of considerable importance in almost every part of America. To a greater extent than perhaps any other plant, it has become adapted to various en- vironments. For the various latitudes from Canada to the equator there are strains more or
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