"Clearly, the corn symbolizes your relationship with your mother.  And as for why it's on the ground, you tell me." —Thraeks, in a comment over at GameFAQ

Our illustration is from Junior Co-Ed by Alice Louise Lee, 1912.

"Cheer up," from 1912.

It's been said that "the Spanish kings layered bureaucracies over colonies, such as Mexico, in order to control their empire from a great distance."  And no wonder — here's the Spanish king, in all his layered magnificence, from Tilton's Annual Illustrated Catalogue of Seeds, 1893.

From 1886. 

From 1886.

From c. 1890.

From c. 1890.

They say that Walter Raleigh brought the potato to England, but it was actually the other way around, as we learn in the J. M. Smith's Sons 1899 seed catalog.

From 1886. 

Here's the patron saint of mawkish sentimentality, from Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, 1907.

Here's a precursor to Carl Sandburg's Potato Face Blind Man from Rootabaga Stories.  It's "a supposed specimen of aboriginal art" discovered in New Brunswick, 1851, from the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881.

Here's a precursor to the Michael Jackson lyric, "Beat it, just beat it."  Date uncertain.

When an onion sings, potato eyes will get teary.  From Vegetable Verselets for Humorous Vegetarians by Margaret Hays, 1911.

From Them Was the Good Old Days in Davenport, Scott County Iowa by William Purcell, 1922.

From Little Folks in Busy-Land by Ada Harris, 1916.