ROOTS AND CORN 



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Included among the grasses are corn, Kentucky blue 

 grass, timothy, orchard grass, redtop, prairie grass, marsh 

 grass, quack grass, brome grass, Bermuda grass, Johnson 

 grass, Italian rye grass, the cereal grains, and other more 

 or less important grasses. 



Corn as Roughage. — Though usually grown for the 

 grain to be used for human and animal consumption. 



corn is in reality a giant grass. It is more valuable to the 

 American farmer than aU the other grains produced. When 

 it is planted in rows about 3-2- feet apart it reproduces the 

 grain more than a thousandfold. Indeed the richness of 

 our soils in many sections of the country is rated by the 

 amount of corn that can be raised upon them. When 



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