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Definition of Corn belt
1. Noun. The midwestern states where corn is grown; Iowa and Illinois are excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corn Belt
Literary usage of Corn belt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The corn belt is more difficult to describe for the reason that corn is grown
... That which is known as the corn belt, however, is the territory in which ..."
2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1902)
"The soil is the black prairie type of the Illinois corn belt. A two year rotation
of corn and oats will be grown at this field. >East. ..."
3. Power and the plow by Edward Aloysius Rumely, Lynn Webster Ellis (1911)
"XXIX TRACTION FARMING IN THE corn belt IN THE great Northwest it is now conceded
... But down in the corn belt, where grandfather's methods are modified but ..."
4. Business Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Robert Marshall Brown, Lenox E. Chase, Frank Ernest Williams (1922)
"Since these corn-belt farmers each year raise animals which are worth perhaps a
quarter ... In other words, an analysis of a typical county in the corn belt ..."
5. Business Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Frank Ernest Williams, Robert Marshall Brown (1922)
"Since these corn-belt farmers each year raise animals which are worth perhaps a
quarter ... In other words, an analysis of a typical county in the corn belt ..."
6. Readings in Rural Sociology by John Phelan (1920)
"LIFE IN THE corn belt » TN CARVER THE average Western farmer is as well ...
The corn belt is probably the most prosperous agricultural region of any ..."
7. Economic Cycles: Their Law and Cause by Henry Ludwell Moore (1914)
"... and the short period during which it flows in the neighborhood of the
maxima.1 Rainfall in the corn belt Thus far we have dealt with the law of rainfall ..."
8. Economic Cycles: Their Law and Cause by Henry Ludwell Moore (1914)
"... which it flows in the neighborhood of the maxima.1 Rainfall in the corn belt
Thus far we have dealt with the law of rainfall only in the Ohio Valley. ..."
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