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Dakota are producing surprising yields. The cultivation 

 of the crop is extending into the western states where it 

 was formerly thought that the corn plant would not 

 thrive. " It may be in fact that the time will come when 

 we shall quit talking about a corn belt as though corn were 

 something that could be 

 grown only in a limited sec- 

 tion from east to west, and 

 that corn will be grown in 

 every section where farming 

 is possible." ' 



The corn belt, just referred 

 to, includes the states or parts 

 of states where the produc- 

 tion of corn is now largely 

 centralized; viz., Ohio, In- 

 diana, Illinois, Iowa, southern 

 Minnesota, the eastern parts 

 of South Dakota, Nebraska 

 and Kansas, and the northern 

 part of Missouri. 



Fig. 55. — 

 An ear of dent 

 corn. 





Fio. 56. — 

 An ear of flint 

 corn. 



108. How the Corn Plant 

 has changed as it has moved 

 Northward. — In the South, 

 if the soil conditions are 

 favorable, the stalks are tall 

 and massive, the ears are 

 large, and the kernels are large and deep with much white 

 starch, while the dent on the crown of each one may be so 

 deep that its sides become pinched together. As we go 

 northward, we find the stalks becoming smaller and less 



'.Wallace's Farmer, January 21, 1915. 



