. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. MAIZE MAIZE 405 made that Cortez, on his march to the city of Mexico in 1519, passed "amidst flourishing fields of ; The historian, Torquemada, has extracted the par- ticulars of the yearly expenditures of the Mexi-. 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.
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. MAIZE MAIZE 405 made that Cortez, on his march to the city of Mexico in 1519, passed "amidst flourishing fields of ; The historian, Torquemada, has extracted the par- ticulars of the yearly expenditures of the Mexi-. 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 ; In 1680, La Salle found stores of corn in Illinois that the Indians had placed under ground for seed and subsistence. In his expedition. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York : Macmillan
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