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unless they are provided with furnace heat. Storing in 

 granaries over bins of grain is not safe, as the grain is hkely 

 to heat or to give off moisture and injure the corn. 



136. Methods of Storing. As previously stated, (Section 

 134), seed corn in large quantities is usually stored in narrow 

 bins through which air can circulate quite freely. Some 

 practical methods of storing smaller quantities of corn on the 

 farm are shown in Figures 42 and 43. The seed corn tree is a 

 square, octagonal, or round post 4 to (3 feet high, fixed to 

 stand erect on a broad ]>ase. Finishing nails are driven into 

 it just far enough apart so that when ears are jabbed on 

 them, butts first, they will just miss one another. This 

 makes an excellent place to store seed corn. Another very 

 convenient way of hanging up seed corn is the double string 

 method. Other ways are illustrated in Figure 43. 



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137. Importance as Food. The place corn has attained 

 as most important of all American farm crops is due to the 

 quality and variety of food products it furnishes and to the 

 fact that no other cereal crop can compete with it success- 

 fully in the quantity of food it will produce to the acre or to 

 the unit of labor expended. 



Corn is used for a great variety of purposes, both in its 

 natural state and in the form of manufactured products. 

 Its greatest and most common use is in the form of feed for 

 live stock. It is used for this purpose as grain, as roughage 

 in the forms of fodder corn, silage, and stover, as green feed, 

 and as a pasture crop. 



By far the most important part of the corn plant is the 

 grain. Its value in the United States is greater than the 

 value of any other two farm crops produced and greater 

 than the wheat, oat, barley, flax, r3^e, and tobacco crops 

 combined. As a feed for live stock, a pound of cornmeal is 

 worth more than a pound of oats, barley, or bran. 



