ABSTRACT
Corn, common corn, plays a greater part in our everyday lives than we may be aware of. It appears in our diets as cornflakes, as popcorn, and as a number of other readily recognizable items. Ups and downs have marked the hardwrought agricultural gains, and without regular infusions of fresh germ plasm for genetic variability, America's farmers could not maintain their present lofty levels of corn production, let alone push them still higher. Corn is grown by more than 1 million US farmers on 280,000 square kilometers of land, or an area equivalent to Arizona and a good deal larger than Great Britain. The revenues raised through a levy along these lines could be used to subsidize farmers in Mexico, who would thereby be restrained from digging up patches of land with wild forms of corn.
