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Bullish sentiment arising from adverse weather in the major corn-growing areas of the U.S. has also spilled over to Indian-corn prices.
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Here were luxuriant patches of tobacco; there, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, yams, beans or Indian-corn varied the scene.
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The baobab, over which the balloon was hanging almost motionless, stood in the centre of a clearing, where, between fields of Indian-corn and sugar-cane, were seen some fifty low, conical huts, around which swarmed a numerous tribe.
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Indian-corn, rice, and wheat; this last just sprung up: many _bedanah_ pomegranates, but none I think of superior quality.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The soil is however heavy, but in places it gives way to a brown mould: rice is cultivated up to Julraiz, but not beyond, millet (Setaria), Indian-corn, lucerne, mustard, beet root; beans and peas are very common.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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There are patches of Indian-corn which are equal to any that can be seen on the Miami; hemp and flax appear at intervals, and upon the lower lands rice.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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There are her barrels of salt, beef, and pork, her beautiful white lard, her Indian-corn and corn-meal, her rice and tobacco, her beef tongues, dried peas, and a few bags of cotton.
Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met William Wells Brown
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Indian-corn and madder are cultivated: a new Asteraceous flower was found.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Maiz, which in France we call Turkey corn, (and we Indian-corn) is a grain of the size of a pea; there is of it as large as our sugar-pea: it grows on a sort of husks, (Quenouille) in ascending rows: some of these husks have to the {164} number of seven hundred grains upon them, and I have counted even to a greater number.
History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz
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Indian-corn field, as yet unharvested, -- huge, golden pumpkins scattered among the hills of corn, -- a noble-looking fruit.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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