



ORN 



1709 



About 80 pef cent, of the world's corn is grown in the United 

 States ; Argentina and South Eastern Europe being next in import- 

 ance. It is the one pre-eminent crop of America. 



J'iG. 121. Leaming Corn, Thirteen Feet High, Grown 

 BY George Dunham, Schaghticoke, N. Y. 



CULTURAL METHODS 



So far as soil is concerned, corn is a cosmopolitan plant; it will 

 grow on almost any soil and it is successfully produced on soils 

 ranging from glacial drift clay to sands that blow in the wind. 

 The ideal is alluvial river valley soil with good natural drainage, 

 and plenty of plant food and organic matter, such as is found in 

 the corn belt states of the Mississippi basin. 



In some sections of the West, corn is grown year after year on 

 the same land, but it is a wiser system to grow it in rotation with 



