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EXERCISE 8 

 TYPES OF CORN 



Object. To learn to recognize the important types and varieties of corn. 

 Materials. Ears representing the four main types of corn (Fig. 11), 



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FIG. 11. Types of corn. From left to right, pod corn, pop-corn, flint corn, dent corn, flour corn and sweet 

 corn. (Productive Farm Crops, Courtesy Macmillan Pub. Co.) 



dent, flint, pop and sweet; also grains of each that have been prepared by 

 soaking 24 hours. 



Drawings. With a sharp knife shave the germ side of a kernel of each 

 type, exposing the germ. Make drawings of each showing relative proportion 

 of (1) hard starch, (2) soft starch, (3) germ. Use the following system in 

 sketching these parts : Hard starch, parallel lines. Soft starch, blank. 

 Germ, solid penciling. 



Description. Describe an ear of each type. Use the descriptive terms 

 in Productive Farm Crops, pages 98-99. 



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