It depicts Francis Russell as an agriculturalist with one hand on a plough, corn ears in the other and sheep at his feet.

If their soil lacks potash (potassium), corn ears do not develop well.

Corncobs, the core of corn ears, are very absorbent.

Yet we sense that the six corn ears, which support the handle of the bowl, are treated with reverence.

Jack gasped, watching Segunki and the others haggling over the corn ears they were throwing into each of the baskets.

And he responded, not with a burst of speed, but by reaching up into his basket, grabbing a corn ear and hurling it between Jack's legs.

The ground was hard, the basket pressed him into it, corn ears clattering around his head.

The xenobotanist turned from her careful arrangement of the corn ears.

Here, dozens of corn ears were bound with rough hanks of rope and stacked like cordwood.

In one field, where maize had just been harvested, fat corn ears in the mud bore an uncanny resemblance to Mills bombs.