DCHP-3

Indian corn†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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maize, Zea mays.

Quotations

<i>c</i>1665
After came a company of women . . . that brought us dry fish and Indian corn.
1842
Charles and I gathering Indian corn, at night had a "bee" a term used for a mustering together of the neighbors, to assist in any work, which would puzzle them to do alone, when all the young people came to help me to husk it.
1963
The first agricultural products at Quebec were Indian corn, squashes and kidney-beans, grown Indian fashion.