Show T TV 7 1 1 1 curing ouri nii wo world 1 ad with corn crop cr on corn orn in other countries dont mean what it does in america ivashin washington agton beca because use the three bil llon lion lushel bushel corn cro crop p in the united states for the past season apparently cannot be marketed satisfactorily ither either in the stick sack or on the hoof corn holds the center of the eco economic anic and even the political stage in america just now just what la Is corn asks a bulletin t n from tile the washington D C headquarters q of the rational geographic society tho the yot youngest ingest farm lad will he be sure he can uns answer that qweston qA eston adl fully IY continues the bulletin hut but can lie he tell rell an englishman that a bumper corn crop la Is causing our farmers eco distress tind lie he will not think of fields of great tall stalks and big golden ears cars but of waving wheat and huge elevators you must speak of maize imalle if you would have him understand talk to a south african of either corn oi or maize and lie will tall fall to get your meaning lie ile grows the same plant with its graan studded cobs but it Is bealles me alles to him so around tile the world you ou will ond find what we know its as corn growing under half a dozen al aliases lases while in other english speak ing countries corn means something entirely different corn la Is nn an english word of long standing of old it meant any small hard bard granule pepper topper peppercorn corn la Is one survival while corned beet beef Is surprisingly singly another corned ment meat gets its naffie name from the fact that it was first prepared with coarse grains of salt salt corns 1 ewen even acorn has had a misspelling ieng because early J englishmen naturally mistook its ita derivation n to be from oak corn corn and lawn grasses are arc cousins cousin fr prom rn its very general meaning corn used alone came in time to mean the small email grains of the cereal plants plant s such as barley wheat oats etc and finally in england and some of the colonies it usually meant wheat corn meant the cereals in general tit at the time of tile the colonization of AVi america erica and since indian corn was the predominant grain crop in the new isea world it soon monopolized the name to those who have not dabbled tit in bottin botany the classification of corn often reaching a height of 20 feet as a as ls Is a bit surprising ing it la Is however just as truly a grass grabs as the tiny plants that carpet golf greens the euclie bulent foliage that covers pastures Jh e cereals wheat oats rice and the like or its closer kinsmen the sugar canes and the sorghums sorg hums corn la Is often called a giant grass it Is rather a conservative giant though beside its cousin bamboo the grass that grows grow into tile the sky bamboo attains a height of feet and more the confusion in regard to corn Is increased by the existence of still other i corny corns kaffir corn also a grass and a cousin of indian corn la Is one of the grain sorghums sorg hums it carries it its rou round n a seeds not on ears but in a an n upright cpr ight plume pluma at the very top of its ita stalk where indian corn has its brainless tassel it did not reach america until after 1880 Jeru jerusalem corn Is somewhat like knur kaffir corn and the other grain sor chunis allo malze dorrn etc but its seed clusters hang downward tile the ends of the stalk being bent over it too Is an immigrant broom corn Is the queerest of the cousins that bear commonly the corn burnnie ur naine and incidentally it Is the oldest of the rion sugar hearing sorghums sorg hums to be cultivated in the united states brooms were made commercially in america from froin locally grown broomcorn ns early its as 1703 1798 and the plant was grown for home broom making some years earlier tho the seeds are of little value in broomcorn broom corn lut ut the sterna stems of the seed clusters are ad suited bulled to use in making brooms corn that turns inside out popcorn Is merely a sort ot of dwarf indian corn com rearing hearing small ears s studded with small hard kernels the latter have the property however of put ung fing or popping when heat Is applied tile the hard outer shell bursts and the grain puffs out so violently that it turoa turns itself inside out millions of dollars in nickels and dinies dimes have changed hands on american street corners because of tile the contortions of popcorn grains it la Is generally accepted that america gave indian corn to the world A few students have supported the theory that the ho plant came from asia ala to europe and from america to europe euhe bithe at about the he t same time soon ater the discovery of america there thera tire are no generally accepted records of corns existence in asla asia before tile tho beginning of the sixteenth century cent however while it Is known to have been cultivated in america for many centuries Cont urles before the arrival of columbua lun lumbia ibus since the fifteenth century corn ling has spread all over the world anti and Is now nn an important crop in parts of nil all the continents its as well os as in now new yea land and other islands island it Is one or of the most Import important tint food grains in por eions alons of portugal spain franco france italy wid ami rumania in burnia burma the corn grain Is a sort or of product byproduct by the type grown there the re hns has fine silky shulls or husks inclosing the crl ear this la Is the highly prized product it in li used to arup wrap the iu cackin white cheroots cherooty che roots smoked by burniese burmese men voni bables |