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 191 



M2B53 



1918 



ANTH 



THE OLD AND THE NEW IN 

 CORN CULTURE 



BY 



H. HOWARD BIGGAR 



Office of Corn Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Corn the Great American Cereal 3 



Corn and the Early Colonies 3 



Corn and the Indian 4 



Kinds of Com Grown by the Indians 5 



Primitive Seed-Testing Methods 6 



Primitive Corn- Planting Methods 7 



Plants as Indicators of the Season 9 



Seed Selection and Storing 9 



Indian Corn Poods ' 10 



Primitive and Modern Methods of Culture 11 



Corn and the Westward Movement 12 



Corn and the Packing Industry 13 



The Silo and the Corn Crop 14 



Variations of the Corn Plant 14 



Corn and the Struggle for Democracy 15 



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Separate from Yearbook of the 

 Department of Agriculture, 1918 



No. 776 



WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTINO OFFICE : 1919 



