The Start Of Another Profound Topical - Corn

An amazing maize maze! And it may be that beavers like munching corn. Do you think this is "...a bit corny"?

Of course it's corny, just like the postmark on this cover from Dows, Iowa, USA:

The establishment of rural newspapers is featured in a stamp of Mali, 1974, the cob represents farming. But the sketch was obviously not done by a farmer. A farmer would make sure that the hoe sits on the ground, not next to one's head!

Welcome Linus, from a state with plenty of corn fields. K.

Thank you Kris for the welcome. Yes I live in Iowa, surrounded by corn. The beavers do not eat much corn here, it is the deer that eat corn. They do the most damage, eating the young plants and knocking over stalks to eat the mature corn ears. Corn is made into ethanol fuel to add to gasoline to fuel our cars and trucks. Corn is big business in Iowa, USA.

Linus

Another Iowa item: a die-cut postcard in the shape of an ear of corn sent from Lansing Iowa in 1906.

Japan
Vegetables and Fruits II
June 4, 2014
Ten designs, one shows an ear of corn.

The cob of corn drawn for the Danish EUROPA stamp looks nice except for a major mistake: if the kernels are ripe, the end of the silk should be brownish dark, and usually dry. 1992. The partner-stamp shows a potato plant.

Malawi
World Food Day
September 11, 1981
Set of four, one stamp depicts maize and maize plant.

Farmers at a corn field in Mozambique; perhaps among the oldest stamps showing corn, 1918. Corn grows well in areas that aren't too dry. Milho is corn in Portuguese, because Portugal was in power there at that time. The country is now a member of the Commonwealth.

Fresh cobs of corn are shown on two of the three stamps issued in 2002 in the sheet "Children's Health". Lots of fruits and vegetables, but no candy or cola.

Ahhh...But remember Kris Rascher that candy and cola are both made using corn! Train car after train car after truckload after truckload of dried corn goes to a facility where tanker car after tanker car after tanker car of high fructose corn syrup comes out. Corner sweetener is used in all kinds of candy, soda pop, cereals, and many other foods and is shipped all over the world from Iowa. I enjoy the red licorice or a root beer float once in awhile, but all things in moderation Kris Rascher.

Linus




Cambodia FAO "Freedom From Hunger" campaign 1963 Scott #117-118

Paraguay
Agriculture
October 22, 2004
Set of three, one stamp depicts maize.

Yugoslavia
Field Plants
May 28, 1981
Set of four, one stamp depicts maize (Zea mays).

India 2017 Cuisines of India: Makki di Roti and Sarsõ da Sag of Pañjab [#8377;5.00]

Mozambique
Agricultural Wealth of Mozambique
July 24, 1981
Set of seven, one stamp depicts maize (Zea mays).