Tumbledown Farm .9 Acres (give or take an acre or two)

Excerpt: The popcorns are a special group of flint corns used for "popping," as the name suggests, for eat­ing out of hand or in confections. They are char­acterized by the small size of the kernels and their excessive hardness, and by the excessive proportion of the corneous endosperm or horny substance con­tained in the kernels, which in turn contains a large percentage of moisture and gives the kernels the property of popping or turning almost com­pletely inside out on the application of heat. ...The actual popping of the kernels has been shown to be due to the expansion of moisture in the starch-cells, the application of heat converting the moisture into steam, making the cell-walls give way and causing an explosion with sufficient force to alter the entire form and texture of the kernel.

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Maize, or Indian Corn. John W. Harshberger

• Maize-Growing. C.P. Hartley
• Maize-Growing for the Silo. Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.
• Popcorn. J. G. Curtis
• The Breeding of Maize. Cyril G. Hopkins

Introduction

If we did not eat it every day, perhaps we too would be amazed at the sight of an edible grass with "an ear as thick as a man's arm, to which grains [are] 'affixed by nature in a wondrous manner and in form and size like garden peas'." (Michael Pollan,