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shocks for curing, and when sufficiently dried, it can either be 
hauled into the barn for husking in the winter, without loss of 
stalks or corn—leaving the land ready for fall plowing—or it 
can be husked in the field, the corn cribbed, and the stalks put 
in the barn, or in small stacks for feeding purposes. 
Corn, as a crop, has no wastage ; the grain, the stalk, the 
cob, every part of it, can be used as food. Cattle, horses, 
sheep, hogs, in fact all animals, can be fed and fattened on it. 
Man himself enjoys and appreciates it. It costs less to raise 
than other grain. There is more profit in it. It leaves the 
land in splendid condition for all other crops, and exhausts it 
less. Taken all in all, it is the crop for the farmer to raise. 
