The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
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Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
Most cornmeal producers don't tell you when their cornmeal was milled, which makes it difficult to know how long the product has been sitting in the store before you bought it.
Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.
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