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9. There is little to attend to in cultivating the 
tree, beyond doing what we can to encourage the 
trunk to grow large and straight, in order that good 
logs may be cut from it. For this purpose we trim 
off all suckers and side-shoots, and, while the tree 
is young, we cut off some of its lower branches. 
10. In about fifteen years the wood may be ready 
to be felled and cut up, but it will probably im- 
prove if allowed to grow on for some years longer. 
CORN. 
1. America is the home of the corn plant, and 
enormous quantities of it are now grown in that 
country, for the sake of the good food it bountifully 
yields in its seeds. The corn may be eaten either 
green or ripe, and much of it is ground and pre- 
pared into a fine flour, called corn-flour. 
2. Nor are the other parts of this fine corn-grass 
without their uses to- us. Their green leaves and 
stalks serve as fodder for cattle, paper can be made 
from the sheaths or husks that surround the ears, 
and sugar from the stalks. 
3 . In Jamaica the acres of land given up to corn- 
growing are few, compared with the number set 
apart for such crops as bananas, sugar, coffee, and 
cocoa-nuts. The parishes of St. Elizabeth and St. 
Andrew provide most of the corn grown in the 
