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each kernel. A tablespoonful should be sufficient to treat 6 

 or 8 quarts of seed corn. After the kernels are coated with 

 tar, planting is facilitated by applying road dust, ashes, or 

 air-slaked lime, so that the kernels will not stick together. 



USES OF CORN 



137. Importance as Food. The place corn has attained 

 as most important of all farm crops is due to the quality and 

 variety of food products it furnishes and to the fact that no 

 other cereal crop can compete with it successfully in the 

 quantity of food it will produce to the acre or to the unit of 

 labor expended. 



Corn is used for a great variety of purposes, both in its 

 natural state and in the form of manufactured products. 

 Its greatest and most common use is in the form of feed for 

 live stock. It is used for this purpose as grain, as roughage 

 in the forms of fodder corn, silage, and stover, as green feed, 

 and as a pasture crop. 



By far the most important part of the corn plant is the 

 grain. Its value in the United States is greater than the 

 value of any other two farm crops produced and greater 

 than the wheat, oat, barley, flax, rye, and tobacco crops 

 combined. As a feed for live stock, a pound of corn meal is 

 worth more than a pound of oats, barley, or bran. 



138. Use as Human Food. As food for man, corn is 

 most largely used in the form of corn meal, from which 

 numerous dishes are prepared. It is also used as hominy, as 

 cerealine, in the form of green corn, canned corn, pop corn, 

 starch, syrup, corn flakes, and corn oil. The refined oil is 

 used for shortening, and sometimes as a substitute for 

 olive oil. 



139. Manufactured Products. One product of the corn 

 crop is canned green sweet corn, which represents an industry 



