Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — Facts About Corn Culture. [ARTICLE]

Facts About Corn Culture.

The tribes of North America saw the possibilities of corn and hastened its evolution. There has been crossbreeding by white farmers, yet, as a matter of fact, the corn culture of the present day Is practically as it came from the hand of the Indian. He has adapted and modified it to various sections of the country by a process of careful selection. Recently it occurred to some scientists that despite the drawback of the weather the Mandan Indians of the North were raising corn. An expedition made a study of the agricultural methods of the Mandant, and It developed that for centuries the farmers of the tribes had been developing a hardy corn. The seed had been selected from year to year from stalks which showed no effect from frost.