1.   Cut kernels off corn ears and cut remaining vegetables into bite-sized pieces.

2.   Like Karkosh, Sundermeier and others on the tour trudge through thick corn stalks and mud to gather a random sampling of three corn ears per field.

3.   The bucolic charms of corn ears and cotton bolls paled beside the allure of hard drives and the Pentium chip.

4.   The four corn ears were frozen, as I was notified when I ordered that they would be.