History and Chemical Investigation of Maize, Or Indian Corn
Author : James Henry Salisbury
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Corn
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Author : James Henry Salisbury
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 19,69 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Corn
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Author : James Henry Salisbury
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 1849
Category : Corn
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Author : Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Corn
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Botanical relationships of maize; Previous evidence on the origin of maize; Previous theories on the origin of maize; New evidence from cytogenetic studies; The origin of teosinte; The origin of maize; The origin of tripsacum; Theoretical phylogeny of the american maydeae; Relationship of the american maydeae to the antropogoneae; Maize in relation to culture and civilization.
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Agriculture
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Author : New York State Museum and Science Service
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Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Science
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Page : 696 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Science
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Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Museums
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"These reports are made up of the reports of the director, geologist, paleontologist, botanist and entomologist, and museum Bulletins and Memoirs, issued as advance sections of the reports." N.Y. State Museum. Bulletin 66, p. 241.
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Page : 962 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Education
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Author : United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Library
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Page : 702 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Nicholas P. Hardeman
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807124246
History is often measured by records of great leaders and events. Nicholas P. Hardeman convinces us that American history can be measured but the shaping force of a quiet monarch—corn. In fact, corn was more than king, it was a way of life, and Hardeman enthusiastically demonstrates that in order to understand the settling and development of America we must know about corn and its influence. Perhaps no volume has come closer to the grass roots of pre-twentieth century America. The history of American worship of property, love of the land, and the work ethic has its source in this country’s discovery of the values of corn. When Hardeman speaks of values, he emphasizes the human as equal to the economic values. He describes corn growing in early America from clearing the land through planting, cultivating, and harvesting, as it was done on the single-family farm, once the mainstay of American agriculture. He talks about the problems and the hard work of corn growing that led to an explosion of agricultural innovation, mostly American in origin, in the nineteenth century. The author gives his attention as well to corn’s ancestry and the role of the Indians in developing all six major varieties of corn. He discusses in detail the many uses of corn as food and drink and its scores of nonfood applications. Overall, Hardeman casts a glow on the “picturesque, symmetrical, checkered cornfields” of a time past. Corn was more than a commodity to the pioneer. It was a social phenomenon during every phase of its culture and especially in the husking bee, the most popular event of the entire pioneer era. Corn was integral to nearly all American culture—our language, literature, art, and mythology. “Frontiers have been erased . . . but in the subconscious of our cultural undergirding, they are with us yet—those phantom shocks in measured rows, the clamorous birds spiraling on set wings to waiting grain fields below, the rhythmic thudding of hominy blocks, the creaking of wheels and crackling of corncob fires.”