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5. If a boy in husking twenty acres of corn yielding 

 forty bushels to the acre averages missing the throw-board 

 of the wagon once out of each fifty throws, estimating one 

 hundred throws or ears to a bushel, what is the value of 

 the corn lost at fifty cents a bushel, supposing the stalks are 

 sold to a neighbor? 



6. Either from observation or agricultural bulletins, 

 gather facts and write a description of a corn harvester; of 

 a corn shocker; of a silo. 



7. If a bushel of corn will produce ten pounds of pork, 

 which is more profitable, to sell the corn or to feed it to 

 hogs, providing pork is selling at seven cents a pound and 

 corn at fifty cents a bushel ? What would be the difference 

 on one thousand bushels of corn? 



14. The Uses of Corn 



Corn as human food. Corn is a native of America. 

 It was cultivated by the Indians before the coming of 

 white men. Corn was the principal grain food used by the 

 Indians and was also widely used by the early colonists. 

 Its use as a human food has now spread throughout almost 

 the entire world, but it is still most widely used in this 

 country. Corn-meal is the principal food product derived 

 from corn, but hominy, hulled corn, corn grits, flaked corn 

 and other specially prepared breakfast foods are also eaten. 

 Corn starch is also a common food product. The unripe 

 ears are extensively used and the canning of green corn has 

 become an important industry. 



Corn as food for animals. By far the larger part of 

 the corn crop is used, however, as food for animals. Corn 

 is the basis of the great meat producing industry of the 

 United States and along with grass constitutes the chief 

 food of the animals used for meat. Farmers have found 

 it more paying to fatten stock with corn and then sell the 

 stock than to sell the corn itself. One reason for this is 

 that it costs less to ship the meat produced by a bushel 



