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it into his store room where it lay, safe from the severe frosts and 

 winter freezes, until he was ready to select his seed in the spring 

 and plant again his next com crop. The stalk left standing in the 

 field may have been browsed over by some pastured cattle, the 

 st ry cannot say at any rate, when the field was ready for the 

 plow again, the stalk was broken down by a drag, cut into bits by 

 a disk, and turned under to decay and furnish plant food for other 

 crops coming in the rotation. 



The story might have been different and our com ear and its 

 stalk might have had a different fate, but the end of our kernel's 

 story has come, it has lived and died in a useful life history, and 

 because of its life more and better com will follow. 



Fig. 6. Boone County White Corn 



Grand Sweepstakes. Illinois Corn Growing Association, 1913 



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