seed corn

Are we still investing that way, or have we eaten the seed corn?

My childhood jobs were detassling seed corn and working at a lumberyard.

They were all fashioned and painted as correct models, and were provided with their national songs and with seed-corn.

If you will help me, I'll give you a peck of that Golden Bantam seed corn you like so much the next time you are in town.'

Much of the corn is already too hard for the table, and some of the ears can be selected which are ripe enough for seed corn.

Now they needed staple provisions, a few farming tools, a breaking-plough, and some seed corn.

One peck of gourd-seed corn is to be measured out to each slave once every week.