. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1050 Rural School Leaflet, 'And still later, when the Autumn Changed the long, green leaves to yellow. And the soft and juicy kernels Grew like wampum hard and yellow, Then the ripened ears he gathered. Stripped the withered husks from off them As he once had stripped the wrestler, Gave the first Feast of Mondamin, And made known unto the people, Th
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1050 Rural School Leaflet, 'And still later, when the Autumn Changed the long, green leaves to yellow. And the soft and juicy kernels Grew like wampum hard and yellow, Then the ripened ears he gathered. Stripped the withered husks from off them As he once had stripped the wrestler, Gave the first Feast of Mondamin, And made known unto the people, This new gift of the Great ; THE CORN PLANT • Anna Botsford Comstock ^VERY student of plant life is interested in corn, one of the most beautiful plants in the world; it is a native of America, the first white men who came to our shores finding it extensively cultivated by the Indians. In study- ing corn it is well to keep before the pupils' minds that its worst enemy is the wind, which lays it low; it has, therefore, been obliged to develop certain forms of stalk, leaf, and root which enable it to withstand the onslaught of this foe. The cornstalk is a strong cylinder with a pithy center strengthened at short intervals by hard nodes or joints; if all of the stalk were as compact and rigid as the nodes, it would be inelastic and break instead of bend; as it is, the stalk is elastic and will bend far over without break- ing. The nodes are near together at the bottom, thus giving strength to the base; they are farther apart at the top, where the wind strikes and where the stalk must bow rather than break. The corn leaf comes off the stalk at a node and its base clasps the stalk completely for some distance, thus rendering the latter stronger. Just where the leaf bends away from the stem is a little growth, which fits tightly around the stalk and is called the rain-guard, since it pre- vents rain from seeping down between the stalk and the clasping leaf, where dampness
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