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popped corn, obtained by shaking the shelled corn of certain varieties in a suit- 
able dish over live aa or * hot stove, is a luxury with children, and mixed 
with sugar or sirup is ma alls and various kinds of candy; corn and 
corn meal are largely fed to farm stock in this country, particularly to cattle and 
hogs; alcoholic liquors in immense quantities are distilled from the grain; eorn 
husks (the leaves covering the ears) are used in making paper, in upholstery, 
and for filling mattresses. The total corn crop of the United States for the year 
1895 was 2,151,138,580 ‘edict: valued at $544, dioi 534, The largest crop of any 
1 one State for that year was produced by Iow 
E and amounted to 298,502,650 bushels. 
Zizania aquatica Linn. Indian Rice; Wild Rice; 
Water Rice; Tuscarora Rice; Water Oats; Reed. 
(Fig. 89.) 
A tall erect annual, 3 to 10 feet high, growing in 
by sportsmen with a view to attracting these 
and aquatic fowl. It grows very rapidly in 1 
to 8 feet of water, and matures its seeds in 
August or early in September. It succeeds best 
when sown in the fall broadcast in 2 or 3 feet of 
water having a muddy bottom, but it can be 
wn in the spring in water from 6 inches to 5 
feet deep. Before sowing soak the seeds in water 
twenty-four hours. Current retail price of the 
Seeds is 25 cents per pound. This grass is 
abundant in the tide-waters of the rivers of the 
Middle Miata, notably in the Delaware below 
Philadelphia, where it is always designated as 
„the reeds.” The stems are used by coopers for 
making the joints of barrels intended to hold 
whisky or petroleum 8 tight. Tbis grass | — 
is the Manorrin of the Chippewa Indians, who Fia, 80. Indian rice. (Zizania 
gather the grain for M aquatica.) 
Zoysia pungens Willd. Coast Couch-grass; Japanese Lawn-grass. > 
A to maritime grass growing on the sandy shores of tropical and eastern Asia, 
Australia, and New Zealand. In Australia it is considered an excellent sand- 
binder, and while vainabie fer this purpose, it is at the same time — e 
forage plant. 
a large amount of choice pasturage. Constant cropping appeara to improve it 
and increase the density of the turf. In the foreign settlements of China and 
Japan it is prized as a lawn grass, especially for tennis courts. Ibis finer-leaf 
than St. Augustine-grass, and may prove pa to that for lawns i in the South- 
ern and Gulf States. The habit of growt g ver y similar 
to that of Bermuda, but th ping st tl tout d gid and 
y 
both roots and seeds from Korea have been successfully grown here, and the 
grass has proved hardy as far north as Connecticut. The leaves turn brown in 
the autumn as do those of Bermuda. 
