CONTENTS III 



CHAPTER X. 



THE COST OF GROWING CORN. 



American Agriculturist and Orange Judd Farmer Estimates — What is cost; labor 

 and wages ; teams and maintenance ; horse power and machinery ; taxation ; rent, im- 

 plements, interest ; seed ; fertilizer ; overhead expense ; labor and its statistical treat- 

 ment; removing stalks; plowing; harrowing; listing; fertilizing; planting; cultivation; 

 gathering and cribbing; fodder; cost with allowance for interest on investment; con- 

 clusion. 



Other Estimates — In Iowa, Missouri and Illinois 201 



CHAPTER XI. 

 DISEASES AND INSECTS ATTACKING CORN. 



DISEASES OF CORN PLANT 



Corn smut; the Burrill Bacterial disease; corn wilt; leaf blight; maize rust; cob 

 rot; corn stalk disease and ear rots. 



INSECT ENEMIES. 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE GROWING CROP — The black headed grass maggot; the seed corn 

 maggot ; wire worms ; cut worms ; the sod web worm or root web worm ; white grub ; 

 corn bill bug ; corn root aphis ; chinch bug ; army worm ; stalk borer ; northern corn 

 root worm ; grasshopper ; ear worm. 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO STORED CORN — Angumois grain moth; the grain weevil 216 



CHAPTER XII. 

 THE MARKETING OF CORN. 



HOME MARKETS. 

 COMMERCIAL MARKETS. 



HOME MARKETS — Line elevator systems ; independent elevators ; farmers' co-operative ele- 

 vators; corn enroute to market. 



PRIMARY MARKETS — Receipts of corn at the principal markets; Chicago as a primary 

 market ; corn values ; steps in the inspection of corn in the primary market ; handling 

 of grain on the cash floor; commercial grades of corn; grain storage; federal in- 

 spection; moisture test; registration of grain. 



TERMINAL MARKETS — Chicago as a terminal market; other terminal markets. 



TERMINAL-EXPORT MARKETS — Enumeration of principal terminal-export markets. 



EXPORT MARKETS — Amount of corn exported ; countries purchasing export corn ; prices of 

 export corn; export freight rates; American grain trade certificates 250 



