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Excerpt from Some Notes on the History, Varieties and Statistics of Indian Corn: Read as an Introduction to a Discussion on Indian Corn and Its Culture, Before the Farmer's Convention at Newport, February 21st, 1877 It was decided by the Committee on Topics, at the last session of the Board of Agriculture, that Indian Corn should furnish the leading subject of thought and discussion at this meeting. It was subdivided into four sections, which were given out for treatment to members of our Board - the first division, that relating to the history, varieties, chemical composition and statistics, having been assigned to myself. It is, I assure you, a broad and intricate theme, demanding for its satisfactory presentation greater ability than I have ever laid claim to; and in the time I am to occupy, I can only glance at the points involved. The gentlemen who are to follow me to-day and to-morrow, each have most important divisions of this subject to present to you; and they have indicated to me in the correspondence we have found it necessary to have upon the matter, that they each had the most difficult part of this great subject assigned to them - an evidence of the vastness of any one of the branches of our agriculture, which only presents itself in its magnitude and importance, whenever we sit down to thoughtfully and persistently study it. As for myself, I need to ask your indulgence beforehand, and if I make mistakes, you will be so good as to acknowledge I go astray in good company, and belong to a large and quite respectable portion of the community. And first, a few words concerning the name; which, as some writer has said, is called "Indian" because it did not come from India, - which may be reasonably doubted, however - and "corn" because it is not corn at all, but something else. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.