1.   He says financial institutions have recognised that little companies provide a base for industry and the seed corn for new ideas.

2.   They carried on an extensive trade in a variety of products such as cattle cake, seed corn, manure and farm fertilisers.

3.   America is growing older, faster, and is developing a voracious appetite for seed corn.

4.   And some bankers wonder whether Wells Fargo is, in effect, eating its seed corn.

5.   Backsliding since it lost its Soviet support seven years ago, the isolated communist country is now bartering its industrial seed corn in exchange for rice by the bowl.

6.   Allowing government to preempt these resources to no better purpose than income redistribution for current consumption is like eating our seed corn.

7.   In the spring, they gave the visitors seed corn and taught them how to cultivate it.

8.   Kohl has now called for an investigation into the product, that according to Gerrish is no longer on the market for seed corn.

9.   Levine theorized that the pyrethroid insecticides used in seed corn had simply forced the beetles into nearby soybeans at egg-laying time.

10.   Last spring, James L. Everly used his pickup to haul seed corn and herbicides to his fields.