. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 613. Good corn 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 â ^e burned, was in such great abundance that the loss was computed at 400,00C minots, or 1,200,000 ; This was in Ontario county. New York. Place of corn in American agric
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 613. Good corn 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 â ^e burned, was in such great abundance that the loss was computed at 400,00C minots, or 1,200,000 ; 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 less per- fectly adapted which lend themselves readily to further improvement and better adaptation. Suited to the short seasons of the far North are strains that mature in seventy or eighty days and grow but three or four feet tall (Fig. 602), while in the southern part of the United States (Fig. 626), in Mexico, Central America and South America, there are strains that reach a height of twenty feet or more and re- quire half a year in which to reach ma- turity. The hard, smooth flints, mostly yellow flints and sweet corns, are generally grown in New England, the small early yellow dents and reddish dents in the northern states, large-eared white and yellow dents of the one-ear- to-stalk strains in the central states, and white dents partly of the strains that produce two or more ears per
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