60 AGRICULTURE 



Variety of corn with a large cob is raised in Missouri for 

 the manufacture of pipes. It is estimated that approxi- 

 mately fifty million bushels of corn are used annually for 

 various corn products in addition to those intended as food 

 for people and animals. 



The importance of corn as a food is increasing and sci- 

 entists are discovering new ways of manufacturing or 

 cooking it to make it both palatable and digestible. The 

 very worst use that can be made of corn is to manufacture 

 it into spirituous liquors since the use of alcohol as a 

 beverage injures those who drink it and brings sorrow, dis- 

 grace and poverty to the user. 



TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION 



1. Teacher and class should join in making a collec- 

 tion in small uniform bottles of all the different corn prod- 

 ucts available that are used for the table. (Certain com- 

 panies will supply samples of their products free of cost.) 



2. In how many different forms is the corn ear, or 

 grain, fed to stock in your vicinity ? In how many different 

 forms is the stover fed? 



3. How many of the different commercial products of 

 corn have you ever seen? What foods have you recently 

 eaten in which one or more of these products was used ? 



4. Enumerate the uses to which you have seen the 

 corn stalk and cob put. Soak some dry pith in water for 

 a few minutes. What happens? 



5. How could you keep records or bookkeeping in con- 

 nection with the corn crop? Make out a debit and credit 

 book account covering a season's work on an acre of corn 

 from planting to harvest. (See Farmers' Bulletin No. 

 511, "Farm Bookkeeping," and Farmers' Bulletin No. 572, 

 "Farm Cost Accounting.") 



6. Sketch a map of the United States and locate in 

 this the corn states. Indicate by different colors the first, 

 second and third best corn sections of the country. From 

 the crop report bulletins secure the figures of the last year's 

 corn crop and the average yield for each state for the year 



