160 INDIAN CORN OULTURE, 
reader nearly all the information necessary to 
an intelligent knowledge of the subject. 
Value of the corn crop.— The great value of 
the corn crop to America is clearly brought out 
in these tables. No other plant we grow will 
produce 3,172 lbs. of digestible food on one acre 
of land at so httle expense. No other cereal 
crop yields the farmer so large a return for his 
labor as the Indian corn, It is the king of the 
cereals. 
