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Adams, Harry W.

Adams, Jocelyn Delk

Adams Corporation

aflatoxin

Africa

Africans

South Africa

African Americans

foodways of

migration of

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

Agricultural Marketing Act

Albany, NY

Albert Dickinson Company

Algonquian

Allegheny Mountains

Allen, Dell

Allen, Terese

Allis-Chalmers

American Corn Growers Association

American Popcorn Company

American Revolution

pre-Revolution

Anderson, Edgar

anticorporate-farming laws

Appalachian Mountains

Appert, Nicholas

Arapahoe, NE

Argo Corn Starch

Armour, Philip

Armour Packing Company

ascorbic acid

Asia/Asian. See also Cantonese, China, Chinese

Azteca Foods

Aztecs

baby corn

backwoodsman

bacon. See also ham, hog, lard, pig, pork, salt pork, sausage, swine

bangboard

Bantu

barbed wire

Barlow, Joel

Battle Creek, MI

Baum, L. Frank

Beatrice Creamery/Beatrice Foods

beef

corned beef

corn-fed beef

fresh

grass-fed

processing

in recipes

salt beef

transporting

Beloit, WI

Belstra Milling Company

bin. See grain bins

Birdseye, Clarence

Birds Eye Company

Bishop Hill, IL

Black Hawk War

Bloomington, IL

corn palace

railroad

Boone, Daniel

Boston Cooking School Cookbook

Brazil

Britain. See also England

British

colonies

individuals

settlers

tea

Brockman, Terra

Bt corn

Buiter, Rob

butterfly (popcorn flake)

Butz, Earl

buying cornmeal

by-products

Canada

climate related to corn

Canadian

canal. See also Erie Canal, Illinois and Michigan Canal, Ohio Canal

canned corn

first

popularity of

in recipes

in wartime

canning

earliest. See also tin cans

can opener

Cantonese

carbon footprint

Carlson, Elmer

Carver, George Washington

Cather, Willa

Catlin, George

cattle

corn/silage feeding

dairy cattle

drives

grazing

questions

transporting. See also, beef, cow, dairy, longhorn, meatpackers, shorthorn, stockyards

cattlemen

census

Center for Science in the Public Interest

center-pivot irrigation system

Chaffin, Jack

cheese

Chelsea, MI

Chelsea Milling Company

Chicago

economic importance

founded

growth of

industry

meat

migration/immigration to

popcorn

railroads

tamales

World’s Fair. See also Packingtown, Porkopolis, Union Stock Yards, University of

Chicago and Northwestern Railway

Chicago Bears

Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)

founding of

Chicago Daily Tribune

Chicago Farmers

Chicago Union Stock Yards. See Union Stock Yards

chickens

chicken broth

chicken tamales

feeding

fried chicken

numbers

Rhode Island Red

White Leghorn. See also eggs

Chillicothe

China

export to

use of cornstarch

Chinatown (Chicago)

Chinese. See also Cantonese

chlorinated hydrocarbons

chowder. See also corn chowder

Cincinnati

Civil War

at beginning

before

Chicago and

cookbooks and

end of

farming after

food during

legislative activity following

migration after

period after

popcorn and

and railways

statehood and

Clark, William

Cleveland

collet

Columbian exchange

Columbian Exposition. See also World’s Fair

Columbus, Christopher

anniversary (Columbian Exposition)

Columbus, NE

combine, self-propelled

capabilities of

cost

effects of

with popcorn

commodity corn

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund

community-supported agriculture (CSA)

compaction (soil)

and weeds. See also no-till

ConAgra

Connecticut

Conservation Reserve Program

cookbooks

charity cookbooks

recipes from. See also Boston School of Cooking Cookbook and Settlement Cook Book

cooperative. See also Heritage Cooperative

Corbett, Gary

Corn Belt

cattle variety

competition

corn varieties

creation of

production

slavery in

Corn Belt Exposition

corn binder

corn borer

resistant corn

cornbread

memories of

part of African American culture

part of meal

recipe

for Wheatless Wednesdays

corn chowder

recipe for

Corn Cob Pipe Museum

corncobs

corncob pipes

corncrib

for popcorn

replacing

corndodger

recipe

cornflakes

corn head (for combine)

invention of

cornhusk. See husk

Cornhuskers, poetry collection or football team

cornhuskers, removing husks

competitive

mechanical. See also husking

cornmeal

buying cornmeal

commercial use

differences

frontier

home use

modern milling

recipes

in tamales

stone ground

during World War I. See also cornmeal mush

cornmeal mush

for breakfast

memories of

other names for

recipe

corn oil

corn on the cob

corn palaces

first (Sioux City)

Mitchell Corn Palace

Corn Palace Train

corn picker (mechanical)

cornpone. See pone

Corn Products Refining Company

cornstarch

in recipes. See also starch

corn title

cow

cow-calf unit

feeding. See also cattle

cow town

Crabb, Richard

Cracker Jack

crackers

cracker barrel

Graham crackers

creamed corn

canned

Cretors, Charles “C.C.”

company

popper

Crimean War

crop rotation

in organic farming

for weed and insect control

crows

CSA. See community-supported agriculture

cultivation, farming

weed control/stage in farming

cultivator

custom work

Czechs

dairy

carbon footprint

cows. See also cattle

Dakotas. See also North Dakota, South Dakota

Dane

Dart, Joseph

Dayton, OH

DDT

Decker, Tom

Deere, John

combine

John Deere Company

photos from John Deere Company

plow

Deering Company

DeKalb, IL

DeKalb Seed Company

DeKryger, Malcolm

dent corn

classification and background

Corn Belt Dents

cross pollination

Des Moines

detassel. See also tassel

Detroit

dextrose

Diffley, Martin

dining car

disassembly line

Disneyland

distillery

distill/distilling

DNA

Dodge City

Doolin, Charles Elmer

Dragonwagon, Crescent

drainage tiles

driers. See grain driers

drip line

drought

drought of 2012

drought resistant

dryers. See grain driers

dry-land farming

Dunbar, Lawrence

Durand, Peter

Dust Bowl

Dutch

Earp, Wyatt

East, Edward M.

Eastern European

eggs

in recipes

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

embryo. See germ (part of corn kernel)

endosperm

England

canning from

traditions. See also Britain

Engler, Peter

English

cattle

Channel

colonists/settlers

steamed pudding

traditions

word origin. See also British

environment

benefits for

environmental health

impact on

protect the. See also erosion, soil

environmentalist

environmental policy

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

environmental solutions company

environmental stresses

Erie Canal. See also canal

erosion

reduce. See also no-till

ethanol

corn used for

issues

legislation

Evans, Henry

Executive Women in Agriculture

Export Enhancement Program

E-Z Pop

factory

canned goods in

loss of workers to

Fairmont Creamery/Fairmont Foods Company

Fair Oaks Farms

family farm (owned by a specific family)

family farms (as category)

majority of farms

protecting

Fannie Farmer

Farmall tractor

Farm Board

Farmers Alliance

Farmer’s Almanac, The

farmers’ market

grants for

Farm Service Agency (of USDA)

Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation

feedlot

fence

Fernholz, Carmen

on crop rotation

fertilize (germ fertilized by pollen)

fertilizer/fertilizing (soil)

commercial

corn’s need

natural

in organic farming

and popcorn

reducing runoff

field corn

compared to other types

defined

wet milling of

Field to Family Community Food Project

Finn/Finnish

Fitkin, Jim

flake (popcorn)

flint corn

breeding with

classification and background

in johnnycakes

flour corn

classification and background

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Foote, Cheryl

Ford, Henry

France

Franklin, Benjamin

French

explorers

land gained from

word origins. See also France

French and Indian War

Fritos

Froelich, John

frozen food

Funk, Casimir

Funk, Eugene

Funk, Isaac

Funk, Lafayette

Funk Bros. Seed Company

Funk Farms Federal Field Station

Future Farmers of America (FFA)

futures

Galena

Galena & Chicago Union Railroad

Galesburg

Geigy Company

General Mills

genetic

material

mutation

traits

genetically modified/engineered organisms (GMO/GEO)

no GMO popcorn

water quality with

geneticist

genetics (field of science). See also Gregor Mendel

germ (part of corn kernel)

German

food

immigrants

Germany

germinate/germination

germs

resistant

Giles, Dorothy

Glidden, Joseph

Goldberger, Joseph

Gold Rush

Goldstein, Walter

government

agencies

assistance

and chemicals used in farming

disposition of land

and food in wartime

funding research

mandates on ethanol

and organic farming

and production levels

regulation

restrictions. See also individual agencies

Grady, Lee

Graham, Reverend Sylvester

grain bin

wet corn bin

grain drier

grain elevator

defined

impact

legislation regarding

Grange, The

granger railroads

grass, as cover crop

corn is

decorative

grass for cattle

grasslands

as weeds

Great American Desert

Great Chicago Fire

Great Depression

government efforts during

impact on agriculture

popcorn during

Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance

Great Floyd River Flood

Great Lakes

transportation/shipping

Great Lakes states

Great Migration

Great Plains

as barrier

cattle on

immigration to

irrigation on

opening of

and railroads

suited for corn

Green Bay

green corn

defined

eating

for roasting

Native American celebration of

preserving

in recipes

in silage

versus sweet. See also milky stage, sweet corn

Greenfield Village

Green Giant

Greenwood, IN

grinding

hand grind

hominy/nixtamal

tools for. See also gristmill, hominy block, mill, quern, wet milling

gristmill. See also, grinding, hominy block, mill, quern

grits

difference between grits and cornmeal

ham. See also bacon, hog, lard, pig, pork, salt pork, sausage, swine

Hammond, George

Hammond, IN

Harrison, Charlie

Hart-Parr Company

harvest

amount

at baby corn and milky/green corn stages

celebration

by hand

hybridizing and

livestock and

machines

popcorn

reenacting

of silage

sweet corn

time. See also combine, corn binder, corn head, corn picker, grain drier, husking

Hasty, Dominicus “Min”

hasty pudding

Heartland

appearance of

defined

dominance of corn in

of Finnish America

issues

heirloom, corn

pigs

protecting diversity of

Hennepin Canal. See also canals

herbicides

herbicide-resistant corn

not with popcorn

reduced need with GMO. See also weeds

Heritage Cooperative. See also cooperative

Hidatsa

high-fructose corn sweetener (HFCS)

High Plains

Hispanic

Hodgson Mills

hoe cake

Hoffer, George

hog

defining Corn Belt agriculture

at fairs

for lard

markets

processing

at stockyards. See also bacon, ham, lard, pig, pork, Porkopolis, salt pork, sausage, swine, Union Stock Yards

Holbert, James

Holmes, Mabel White

Homestead Act

homesteader/homesteading

hominy

“hogs and”

“Hominy King”

process/definition

hominy block

hominy grits. See grits

honeybee

Hoopes, Thomas

Hoopeston, IL

Hoopeston Canning Company

Hoover, Herbert

Hopi

Hopkins, Cyril G.

horses

horse-drawn equipment

horse-drawn wagon

“horse power”

horse replaces oxen

packhorse

plow horse

tractor replaces horse

transportation

Hudnut, Theodore

Hudson, John C.

Hungary/Hungarian

husk (part of plant)

in crafts and home use

husking/shucking

competition

mechanical

husking bee

husking peg, hook, glove

hybrid corn

development of

for Fritos

harvesting

less pollen

popcorn

protecting viability of

ice harvesting

Illinois

cornstarch

drainage in

grain elevator in

historic farm in

hybrid corn in

Land Connection

legislation in

Lincoln in

mill

Morrill Act

popcorn in

productivity

residents

science in

settlement and statehood

slavery in. See also Bishop Hill, Bloomington, Chicago, DeKalb, Galena, Galesburg, Hoopeston, Joliet, Kewanee, McLean County, Moline, Peoria, Springfield, University of Illinois, and Vandalia

Illinois and Michigan Canal (I&M Canal). See also canal

Illinois Building, Columbian Exposition

Illinois Canning Company

Illinois Central Railroad

Illinois General Assembly

Illinois River

Indiana

corn husking championship

dairy in

hybrid corn in

Morrill Act

National Road

pigs in

popcorn in

productivity

and railways

settlement and statehood

slavery in. See also Greenwood, Hammond, Terre Haute, Valparaiso

Industrial Revolution

Ingraham, Herbert

insect

control of

resistant. See also corn borer, insecticide

insecticide

International Harvester

Inuit

Iowa

community supported agriculture

corn husking champ

corn palace

detasseling in

fertilizer use in

hybrid corn in

legislation in

Morrill Act

Native Americans of

popcorn

productivity

and railways

settlement and statehood. See also Des Moines, Odebolt, Sioux City, Waterloo, West Point

Iowa Pesticide Act

Iowa State University

Ireland

Irish

Irish Potato Famine

Iroquois

irrigation. See also central-pivot irrigation system, drip line

Italian, language

people

Italy

reasons for leaving

jabber

Jamestown

corn saved

Jansson, Erik

Japan

importing

Jardín Etnobotánico

Jefferson, Thomas

and corn farming

Jennings, John

Jew/Jewish

Jiffy mix

Jiffy Pop

johnnycake

Johnson, Robert

Johnston, John

Joliet, IL

Joliet, Louis

Jolly Time Popcorn

Jones, Donald

Jones, Orlando

Jossi, John

jumping gene

Kabbani, Jim

Kansas

productivity

settlement and statehood. See also Dodge City, Nicodemus, Wichita

Kansas City, MO

Kansas Pacific Railroad

Kansas State University

Kellogg, Dr. John Harvey

Kellogg, Will Keith

Kellogg Company

Kennedy, Jack

Kentucky

Kewanee, IL

Kewanee Historical Society

King Corn (movie)

King George

Kingsford, Thomas

Kingsford’s Corn Starch

Kline Creek Farm

Knox College

Koos, Greg

Korn Kurls

kwashiorkor

Lake Michigan

Land Connection, The (TLC)

landfill

land-grant colleges. See also Morrill Act

land grants as payment for soldiers

lard

in recipes

LaSalle, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de

Laughnan, John

legislation

Le Sueur, MN

Lewis, Meriwether

Libby Foods

Life magazine

Lincoln, Abraham

legislation

speech

Lincoln, NE

Lind, John

Living History Farms

longhorn cattle

Longone, Janice Bluestein

Louisiana. See also New Orleans

Louisiana Purchase

Lyman, William

Lynas, Mark

Maddox, Michael

mahiz

maize

classification

colonial

dissemination

origin and early history

word origins

malaria

maltodextrin

Mandaamin

Mandaamin Institute

Marquette, Jacques

masa

Massey-Harris Company

Masterson, Bat

Maya

McCall, S. S.

McCormick, Cyrus

McCormick Company

McCoy, Joseph G.

McHughen, Alan

McLean County

McLean County Historical Museum

meatpackers/meatpacking

Mendel, Gregor

methane

Mexican

culture

food

influence

migration

people

Mexico

consumption of maize in

drought in

Gulf of

history of

research in

source of maize

transformation of teosinte in

Michigan

productivity

settlement and statehood. See also Battle Creek, Chelsea, Detroit

Middle Atlantic/Mid-Atlantic states

Middle West

milk

in cooking

“milky stage” (corn). See also green corn

mill

milling. See also buying cornmeal, grinding, gristmill, hominy block, quern, wet milling

millet

Milwaukee

“Milwaukee Club” (corn grade)

Milwaukee Journal

Minnesota

anti-corporate farming laws in

midwestern identity

productivity

settlement

University of. See also Le Sueur, Olivia

Minnesota Valley Canning Company

Mississippi

Delta

Mississippi River

as boundary

for transportation

Missouri

productivity

railroads

settlement and statehood

slavery in. See also Kansas City, St. Louis

Missouri River

Mitchell, SD

Moline

Mondamin

Moose, Dr. Stephen P.

breeding/improvements

on genetic modification

Morrill Act

Morris, Nelson

Mound Cemetery

Munn v. Illinois

Murtoff, Jennifer

Muscle Shoals, AL

mush. See cornmeal mush

mushroom (popcorn flake)

Nahuatl

Napoleon

Narragansett

National Corn Growers Association

National Cornhuskers Hall of Fame

National Corn Husking Association

National Drought Mitigation Center

National Fertilizer Development Center

National Grange

National Research Council

National Road

Native Americans

developing corn

eating

growing/cultivating corn

husking

language

traditions

treating corn. See also Algonquian, Aztecs, Hidatsa, Hopi, Inuit, Maya, Narragansett, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Squanto, Taino, Wampanoag

Nebraska

“Cornhuskers”

cornstarch

dairy

irrigation

popcorn

productivity

settlement and statehood

World’s Fair. See also Arapahoe, Columbus, Lincoln, Omaha

Nebraska History Museum

Nebraska “marble”

Nebraska State Historical Society

Neruda, Pablo

New England

foodways

migration from

people

rum distilling

terrain

New England Farmer

New Jersey

New Orleans

New Sweden

Newsweek

New York (state)

migration from

upstate. See also Albany, New York City

New York City

New York Times

niacin

Nicodemus, Kansas

nicotine

nitrates

nitrogen

nixtamal

nixtamalization

Norris, Frank

North, Amy

North Dakota. See also Dakotas

Northwest Territory

New

Old

Norwegian

no-till

advantages of

EPA recommendation of

Oaxaca

Oberlin College

Odebolt, IA

Ogden, William B.

Oglesby, Richard J.

Ohio

Heritage Cooperative

monumental art

popcorn in

productivity

railways and

settlement and statehood

Zimmerman farm in. See also Chillicothe, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Sandusky, Scioto Valley, and Toledo

Ohio Canal. See also canal

Ohio River

Ohio River Valley

Ohio State University

Oliver, Sandra

Olivia, MN

Omaha

open-pollination. See also pollen, pollination

organic farm/farming

compared to conventional

description of

differences among organic approaches

drawbacks/issues

and GMOs

promoting

organic food

meat/milk

popcorn

Organic Seed Alliance

organophosphates

oyster

corn oysters

packing. See meatpacking

Packingtown

panizo

parched corn

Pasteur, Louis

pellagra

pendulum press

Pennsylvania. See also Philadelphia

Peoria

pericarp

Perry, Sharon

pesticide. See also insecticide

Peterson, Greg

Pfister, Lester

Pfister Seeds

Philadelphia

Philippines

phosphate

Pierce, Donna

pig

on family farms

legislation affecting. See also hog, pork, Porkopolis, swine, Union Stock Yards

Pike, Zebulon

Pilgrims

celebrating harvest

pioneer

diet

farmers

settling the Midwest

symbol of

tenancy and

Pioneer Hi-Bred

Pioneer Village

Pit, The

pivot. See center-pivot irrigation system

plank roads

planting

“corn title” and

demonstration

and herbicides

mechanical

Native American rituals for

structured refuge strategy in

timing of

urgency of

and women

plow/plowing

plowshare

Plymouth

pod corn

Pole

polenta

development overseas

flint corn for

recipe for

Polk, Ralph

pollen

pollination

GMOs and

wind-pollinated. See also open-pollination

pone

Poor Richard’s Almanac

popcorn

classification

festivals/fairs

foodways

history

official snack of Illinois

popcorn balls

preparing

pork

abundance of

European influence and

legislation affecting

packing/processing

pork bellies

salt pork. See also bacon, ham, hog, lard, pig, swine

Porkopolis

Portland, ME

Portuguese/Portugal

Post, Charles W.

potash

Potato Famine. See Irish Potato Famine

Potawatomi

poultry. See also chicken

pozole

Prairie Farmer

pre-Columbian

preserving corn

freezing

winter. See also canning, frozen food

Princeton University

Prohibition

pudding

corn pudding

cornstarch pudding

defined

hasty

recipes for

Pullman, George

Pullman Company

Purdue University

Putnam, Robert H.

quern

rachis

railroads

African Americans and

food and

and grain elevators

and settlement

stockyards and

and time zones

tourism and. See also Chicago and Northwestern Railway, granger railroads, Illinois Central Railroad, Kansas Pacific Railroad, train, Transcontinental Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad

Redenbacher, Orville

Red Hot Ole Mose

Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC)

Rhodes, “Dusty”

Roebuck, Alvah

Rohe, Alexander

Romania

Roosevelt, Franklin, Delano

Roosevelt, Teddy

Rose, Fred

Roundtree, Helen

Royal Proclamation of 1763

Rueckheim, Frederick and Louis

Rumford stove

Rural Electrification Act

Russia/Russian

salt pork

samp

samp mill. See hominy block

Sandburg, Carl

Sandusky, OH

sausage

casings

Scammon, J. Young

Scandinavia/Scandinavian. See also Dane, Finn, Norwegian Sweden, Swede

Scientific American

Scioto Valley

Scot/Scotland

scutellum

Sears, Richard

seed drill

seed selection

Sells, William

Settlement Cook Book, The

Shawnee

shelling corn

corn head on combine and

early mechanical sheller

shelled popcorn

shock/shocking

shorthorn cattle

Shuck Fest

shucking. See husking

Shull, George

Shuman, Frank

Shur-Grow

side dressing

Sila, Marie

silage

and DDT

as winter feed

word origin

Silgan Container Corp.

silo

Sioux City

Sioux City Journal

slave/slavery

Slow Food

Smith, Cloid H.

Smith, John. See also Jamestown

Smith, Shirley

sod

John Deere plow and. See also Nebraska marble

sodbuster

sod house

soil

in organic farming

preparation of

quality, good

quality, poor

temperature

testing. See also compaction, environment, erosion, no-till, plowing, tilling, sod

Soil Bank

soul food

South America

South Dakota. See also Dakotas, Mitchell

Soviet Union/USSR

Spain

Spanish

language

people

settlers

speculators

Sprague, Welcome

Springfield, IL

Squanto

Staley, Augustus Eugene

Stamp Act

starch

altered

in classifying corn

developing varieties for

for ethanol

issues with

at milky/green corn stage

in nixtamalization

tapioca

steamboats

Steinbeck, John

Steinberg, Justin

Stewart, Philo Penfield

Stirway

St. Louis

population

railroads

roads

shipping port

World’s Fair

stockyard

demand for labor

effect of

in Kansas

in Omaha. See also Union Stock Yards

Stokely-VanCamp

stove

fuel for

invention of

structured refuge strategy

Sturtevant, E. Lewis

Sukup, Eugene

Sukup Manufacturing Company

sump

supermarket

super sweet corn

sustainability

sustainable farming

Swede/Sweden

sweet corn

“capital”

chowder

classification

and corn borers

dining on

fair

festival

in garden

harvesting

most popular vegetable

Native American ritual for

on the cob

organic

oysters

preserving

pudding

in recipes. See also green corn, milky stage, super sweet corn

swidden agriculture

Swift, Gustavus

swine. See also pig, pork, Porkopolis, Union Stock Yards

Swiss/Switzerland

Taino

tamale

Midwest/Chicago/Delta-style

word origin

tassel

and hybridizing. See also detassel

Temple, Mike

tenancy/renting land, historic

today

Tennessee

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

teosinte

pollinating

popping

Terre Haute, IN

Texas

Texas fever

Thanksgiving

Thirteen Colonies

Thoreau, Henry David

tilling/tillage. See also no-till

time zones, creation of

tin cans

tobacco

Toledo, OH

tortilla

chips

Tortilla Industry Association (TIA)

tractor

invention/development

power source

steam-powered tractor

Tracy, William

train

Chicago and

food and

and livestock

refrigeration and

and settlement

shipping

travel. See also Corn Palace Train, railroads

Transcontinental Railroad

Treaty of Paris

Treaty of Tordesillas

Tull, Jethro

Union Pacific Railroad

Union Station, St. Louis

Union Stock Yards

closed

founded

size/capacity

workforce. See also stockyard

United Starch Company

United States Army

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

experts at

founding of

and hybrid corn

and organic food

report days. See also Farm Service Agency

United States Food Administration (World War I)

University of Chicago

University of Illinois

researcher at

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

University of Nebraska

University of Wisconsin

Upland South

defined

USSR. See Soviet Union

vacuum pack

Valparaiso, IN

vampire

Vandalia

Velasco, José María

Velasquez, Arthur

Venice, Italy

Virginia

Virginia Military District

“Virginia wheat”

Virginia worm fence

Visser, Margaret

vitamin

A

B

C

D

Wallace, Henry

Wallace’s Farmer

Wampanoag

Ward, Aaron Montgomery

Warner, Ezra

War of 1812

Washington, George

Waterloo, IA

Waterloo Boy tractor

Waterloo Company

waxy corn

Weber, Cathy

weeds

compaction and

herbicides and

organic farming and

problem with

productivity when controlled

resistant

Western Reserve

West Point, IA

wet milling

wet prairie

wheat

breakfast cereal

cereal grass

European preference for

futures

growing and harvesting compared to corn

increased demand for

linguistic confusion

quantities compared to corn

in recipes

starch

Wheatless Wednesdays

whiskey

to get corn to market

and GMO corn

as medicine

private consumption

and Prohibition

taxes on, word origin. See also Peoria

Wichita

Williams, Eric

Winslow, Edward

Winslow, Nathan and Isaac

Winslow Packing Company

Winters, John

Wisconsin

books on

dairy

productivity

and railways

settlement and statehood

state quarter. See also Beloit, Green Bay, Milwaukee, University of

Wisconsin Historical Society

Wizard of Oz

women

charity cookbooks and

corn ideal for

equality on the frontier

at land-grant colleges

and Prohibition

today

at Union Stock Yards

in wartime

World’s Fair

World War I

tractors during

following

food during

loss of workers from

World War II

changes after

following

food during

insecticide and

loss of workers from

popcorn during

restrictions during

Wright, John S.

Wyandot Popcorn Museum

Yearling, The

Zea mays

Zea mays everta

Zimmerman, Ed

Zimmerman, Sylvia

Zybach, Frank