Show touring ng world WV V or id with corn crop corn in other countries dont mean what it does in america washington because the three all lion bushel corn crop in the united states forthe for the past season apparently cannot be marketed satisfactorily either in the sack or on the hoof I 1 corn holds the center of the economic and even the political stage in america just now just what Is bornt corn asks a bulletin from the washington U D C headquarters barters of the national geographic society the youngest farm lad ind will be sure lie can call answer that question fully continues continos s the bulletin nut but can lie tell till an englishman that a bumper corn crop Is causing our farmers economic distress and lie he will not think of fields of great tall stalks and big golden ears curs hut of waving wheat and huge elevators you must speak of maize if you would have him understand talk to a south african of either corn or maize and lie he will fall to got get your meaning he grows the saine plant with its grain studded cobs but it Is culles to him so around the world you will find what we know us as corn growing under halt half a dozen aliases while in other english speak ing countries corn means something entirely different corn Is tin an english word of I 1 long ong stan standing dlug of old it meant any small hard granule peppercorn pepper corn Is one survival while corned beet beef Is surprisingly pris singly higly another corned meat gets its name from the fact that it was first prepared with coarse grains of sa salt salt cortis corns even acorn has had a misspelling because early englishmen naturally mistook its derivation to be from oak corn corn and lawn grace are cousins from its very general meaning corn used alone come came in time to mean the small grains of the cereal blunts such as barley wheat oats i etc and finally in england and some of etc abe colonies it usually meant wheat corn meant the cereals in general at the time of the colonization of america and since indian aarn was tile the predominant grain crop in the now new world it soon monopolized the name to those choso who have not dabbled in botany tho the classification of corn often reaching a height of 20 feet as a grass Is a bit surprising it la Is however just as truly a grass as tha tiny plants that carpet golf greens the succulent foliage that covers pastures the cereals wheat oats oata rice and the like or its closer kinsmen tho the sugar canes and the sorghums sorg hums corn is often culled called a giant grass it la Is rather a conservative though beside its cousin bamboo tho the grass that grows into the sky bamboo attains a liel height glit of feet and more the confusion in regard to corn Is Increase dby the existence of still other corns coma kaffir corn com 1 also a grans and a cousin of indian corn to Is one of the grain sorghums sorg hums it carries it its round seeds not on ears but in un an upright plume at the very top of its ita stalk where indian corn lias its gral nr less tassel it did not reach amerla america until after 1880 jerusalem corn to is somewhat like ilka kaflik corn and the other grain sor ghumm allo maize durra etc but bot its sed clusters hang downward trio the ends of the stalk being bent over it too to la an immigrant broom corn to Is the queerest of the cousins that bear commo commonly the corn surname and incidentally it ac Is the old est eat ot the bearing sorghums sorg hums to bo be cultivated in the united states brooms were made commercially in america from locally grown broomcorn ns eyrly as 1798 and the plant was gro grown wn for home broom making some years earlier the seeds are of little value in broomcorn broom corn but the stems of the seed clusters are admirably suited to use in mak making k ng brooms corn that turns inside out popcorn Is merely a sort of dwarf indian corn bearing small ears studded with small hard bard kernels the latter have the yi however of puffing or popping when heat Is applied tho the hard outer shell barets and biln grain puffs out so BO violently that it turns itself inside out millions of dollars in nickels and dimes have changed hands on american street corners because of the contortions of popcorn grains it Is generally accepted that america gave indian corn to the world A few students have supported the theory that the plant came from asia to europe and from america to europe nt at about the same time soon ater the discovery of america there are no generally accepted records of corns existence in asia before the beginning of the sixteenth century however while it Is known to havo have been cultivated in america for many centuries before the arrival of columbus lu since the fifteenth century corn has spread all over the world and la IN now an important crop in parts of all the continents as well as lt in new zealand and other islands it to Is one of the most important fod grains in portions of portugal spain france italy yugoslavia yugo slavia and Rum rumania anlu in burma the corn grain Is a sort of vy y product the type grown there lias las une fine silky shucks or husks Inc inclosing logIng tile the ear this Is the highly prized product it la Is used to wrap the white cheroots cherooty che roots smoked by burmese men women and babies |