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5. Make an outline of the steps you would follow in culti¬ 
vating a field of com during the season. 
6. What do we mean by the following: a drill row, a check 
row, a down row, a water furrow, a dead furrow, and mulch? 
7. Visit a crib of corn near the school and estimate the 
number of bushels in the crib. (Multiply the number of cubic 
feet in the crib by two-fifths.) 
8. What has been the market price of corn at your town 
during the past year? 
9. How many bushels of corn does it require to produce one 
hundred pounds of pork? 
10. For what do we raise most of our white corn? Yellow 
com? 
11. Name some products made from corn. 
Exercise 1 
. Object: To determine the percentage of shelled corn. 
Materials: Ears of corn, scales, pencil, and paper. 
Procedure: Estimate the shelling percentage or quality of corn 
by shelling ten ears; weigh the shelled grain and the cob. Then 
find what percentage the shelled corn is of the total weight. 
Try this with three varieties. Which has the more corn, shallow¬ 
er deep-grained ears? 
WORDS TO BE LEARNED 
Chaff. The external coverings of grains. 
Checked. Planted in squares, as corn. 
Conserve. To keep from loss or destruction. 
Eliminate. To remove injurious substances. 
Pulverize. To reduce to power. 
Snapped. To break squarely, with a snap or jerk. 
Water furrow. An open furrow, between ridges. 
REFERENCES 
“Corn Growing Under Droughty Conditions,” U. S. Dept, of 
Agri., Farmers’ Bui. 773. 
“Corn Belt Farming System Which Saves Labor by Hogging- 
Down Crops,” U. S. Dept, of Agri., Farmers’ Bui. 614. 
“Corn Cultivation,” U. S. Dept, of Agri., Farmers’ Bui. 441, 
