252 CORN 



to-day, " corn " is maize, and was unknown to the people 

 of the Old World until America was discovered. 



The Indians cultivated maize from Canada to Argen- 

 tina. In Mexico there was a maize goddess whom the 



GOOD AND BAD SEED. 



These six kernels were under exactly the same condition in the 

 germinator. 



natives worshiped. The plant is still sometimes called 

 "Indian corn." The Indians taught the early European 

 settlers how to grow it. 1 At times the settlers would have 



1 In his " History of Plimouth Plantation " Governor Bradford states that 

 the settlers "began to plant their corne, in which service Squanto (an 

 Indian) stood them in good stead, showing them both the manner how to set 



