Jake,
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Quote from: cactusjumper on Mar 08, 2009, 05:37:30 PM
Newt,
"Cactus jumper , thats a good point but for one slight detail , whos to say they didnt bring corn back ? It would never have grown in Scotland , it would fail to grow."
Sorry, I believe you are badly mistaken here. Corn grows quite well in Scotland, but as I understand it, they call it maize.
Take care,
Joe
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"Thats odd , i grew up there and lived there the last 25 years ,in total ive lived there 35 years and ive never seen a cornfield ..not ever".
I have never been to Scotland, so you may be correct.
Having never been there, I relied on the Internet to clue me in. Below are two sites out of many that made me believe that corn/maize is grown in Scotland:
Sensitivity to climatic and other factors
Maize has a different mechanism of photosynthesis from all other major crops in the UK (C4 rather than C3) which is most effective at warm temperatures. In an average growing season in the UK, despite rapid advances in plant breeding, maize only just receives sufficient degree-days and solar radiation to produce viable yields. Although the crop is grown commercially on a small scale in many parts of northern England
and parts of Scotland, the more favourable growing areas are limited to the warm lowland parts of southern and central England and coastal Wales. The crop is vulnerable to adverse weather conditions in its establishment stages.
The area of maize grown obviously depends on trends in livestock production and the profitability of competing crops as well as climate.
http://www.ecn.ac.uk/iccuk//indicators/23.htm
Grain Maize Varieties and Production
MERIBEL
·High yield grain yield and high grain maturity make it one of the best for grain maize production
·Excellent early vigour and best standing power of any potential grain maize variety
·Grain quality under evaluation for micronising
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Bullet-proof variety grown from south west Scotland to Cornwall
BALTIS
·Best variety in the recent NIAB grain maize trials
·Yield 105% of controls and mean yield of 8.6t/ha
·Most widely grown variety of the current grain types in the UK
·Lower grain moisture at harvest allowing earlier threshing of grain off the spindle
·Good yields of grain can be maximised with use of irrigation at flowering on light soils
Maize for Grain Production
·Lodging resistance is essential when harvesting maize for grain since harvest will not be before the end of October in most years.
·The plant will be dried out by autumn winds and early frosts so that the crop looks dead. The lower the moisture content in the kernels at harvest, the cheaper the drying charges that will be incurred.
·Grain maize is harvested at 30 % moisture and produce must be dried straight off the combine to ensure that grain moisture is reduced to 15% for long term storage.
·A combine snapper header allow faster harvesting and cleaner samples to be produced since
only the cob is processed by the combine rather than the whole plant.
Growing Season
·Maize for grain production should be drilled at a seed rate of 42,000 seeds/acre to establish 40,000 seeds/acre (98,000/ha) to accelerate kernel dry down at harvest and to
maximise cob size and grain yield.
·Grain crops should be grown using the same husbandry guidelines as forage maize. Remove soil compaction, ensure sufficient crop nutrients are available to the plant by using placement phosphate and ensure a high potash level for good cob development. In an arable rotation weed control should be cheap with only one application being required on many fields.
·Opportunities exist for selling standing crops to dairy farmers, particularly in dry years when forage stocks are low.
http://www.grainfarmers.co.uk/maize.php
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It may very well be that corn couldn't have survived in that era. More important to me, is the fact that this wonderful crop went unrecorded, but was important enough to carve into stone.
Thank you for your reply,
Joe
You will find Eliphaz closely linked to the subject.
WOW! What an INTERESTING thread! KING OF TERROR in a chapel... HA! FEAR of DEATH was apparent to the K.T. & EVERYONE; PROBABLY a VERY hard "life", then... people not living a LONG time, etc. The wars, VIOLENCE; so... why not show in a CHAPEL, that LIFE is MORE than the "physical" being? Upon "death" of the "physical" body, the "SPIRIT" moves on, which is a Pagan/Christian/Catholic belief... THEN, and NOW! The "corn" is indeed a "symbol" of fertility/prosperity; as in the corn/wine "blessing" in the HOLY BIBLE. BLESSING the NORTHWEST (or NORTHEAST) corner of new buildings, which the StoneMasons/Masons PROBABLY did. then. Even Bro. George Washinton used the Corn/Oil, etc. "blessing" of some building in Washington, DC (White House?) in Masonic regalia/rituals, etc. SO! Sounds like a "pagan" influence in stone, as a way to "show" people, who "could not" read nor write, then... certain SECRETS! MAY NOT mean, there was corn in Scotland, or Columbus (MAY have been K.T.) brought back CORN from his "trips" to America. 
