HOW TO GROW GOOD COM. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



NATURE OF CORN. 



By corn, in its enlarged sense, the farmer means all 

 such crops as arc grown for their seeds ; so that all 

 kinds of grain and pulse, such as peas and heans, 

 belong to the corn crop, as distinguished from roots 

 and green crops. In America the word "corn" is 

 restricted to maize or Indian corn, and other crops 

 are called after their respective names. Our dic- 

 tionaries define corn as " seeds which grow in ears, 

 not pods ;" and it is to these that the present treatise 

 is meant exclusively to apply, confining our remarks 

 for the most part to such kinds as are more com- 

 monly cultivated in this country. 



Corn, then, may he said to be derived from different 

 species of grasses, whose seeds are sufficiently large 

 to enable them to be threshed from the ear and 

 become stored as grain, in which case it differs from 

 the smaller kinds, whose seeds may be grown for 

 pasturage crops. 



Hence, then, grasses afford us two sets, which are 

 differently used, — one, as affording corn fabled to be 

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