146 KING CORN 
2,772,307,000 bushels of corn, and yet the price of corn 
is high, showing that the uses of corn are large. 
The consumption capacity of the world for corn is so 
great that there does not seem to be any danger of an 
overproduction. In fact, the demand for corn is greater 
than the supply, or the price would not be so high as it 
is now. 
On account of our soils losing in fertility, the average 
bushels per acre is not increasing as it should. 
If corn is the easiest, cheapest and best money-making 
crop grown on the farm, then farmers should become 
enthusiastic over any method that will bring about a 
greater yield per acre. 
In the preceding chapters I have shown the original 
process of soil building and the best methods of soil 
restoration. 
The methods of soil building I have detailed are not 
chimerical, but are real, practical, cheap and at the com- 
mand of every American farmer. They will put your 
soil in the right condition to grow 100 bushels of corn 
per acre. 
While good soil well prepared as a seed bed is the very 
foundation of a good corn crop, it is not the only thing 
needed to produce a large crop. You must have good 
seed. Seed selection is important in any crop. The loss 
occasioned by poor seed is enormous, and it can all be 
avoided with a little care. 
Too many of us depend on our seedsmen, and as they 
assume no liability on account of poor seed, we are help- 
less if our seeds prove to be bad. 
