ABSTRACT
Americans are too concerned with heaven on earth to genuflect to the prophets of other realities and they are chronically materialistic and optimistic, who has more interest in short-range than long-range prospects. The Euro-Americans in North America adopted maize more enthusiastically and maintained it as their staple for longer than any of their compeers elsewhere in Europe's colonies. The chapter mainly talks about maize, sometimes called as 'lazy man's crop' in North America, a part or the whole of every day's meals for the first settlers and pioneers which is good for livestock for humans and standards of living edged upward. It is used to feed the animals and also provides human with meat, eggs, milk, leather, fiber, and power. The chapter also discusses the most astonishing feature of American demography at the end of the eighteenth century, that had a rate of natural increase in the American population which was apparently in decline and more spectacular.
