CORN THE KING OF 

 AMERICA'S CROPS 



NOT ONLY BETTER CORN BUT A BETTER STALK 

 AND WHY 



THE potato, tobacco, and Indian corn or 

 maize these are the three great American 

 contributions to the company of cultivated 

 plants. 



The potato and tobacco and bean have gone 

 everywhere, but corn is still chiefly raised in the 

 country of its nativity. It is extensively cultivated, 

 however, far to the north of its original habitat. 

 The great corn state now is Iowa, and the original 

 home of the ancestors of the corn plant was the 

 region of Southern Mexico and Central America. 



In a recent year there were 1,144,500 acres of 

 land in the United States given over to the cultiva- 

 tion of tobacco, and the crop raised amounted to 

 963,000,000 pounds. For potatoes 3,655,000 acres 

 were utilized, raising a crop of 421,000,000 bushels. 

 Wheat was raised on 18,663,000 acres, giving a 

 crop of 330,000,000 bushels. 



[VOLUME VIII CHAPTER I] 



