The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-15
BOOMING INDIAN CORN
In the Various Cities of England.

At the local fairs and exhibitions that
are now being held, or that have lately
been held, in various British cities,
American Indian corn has been put on
show in very attractive ways, and novel
projects have been got up to secure its
introduction as an article of diet for the
use of the British people. There can be
no doubt that if the efforts now being
made to promote the consumpti on of In
dian corn there are successful a new and
profitable market for the most important
crop of the United States will be estab-
lished, and the prosperity of the millions
of Indian corn raisers in America will be
greatly increased.
The state of Nebraska sent commits
sioner, Charles j. Murphy, to the Edin-
burgh exposition of this year as an of
fetal representative of the corn inter
ests of that state Commissioner
Murphy adopted plans and action
in Edinburgh that soon gave promise
of being far more successful than
those he had been able TO put in
practice at the international exposition
in Paris. He then undertook for the
first time on foreign soil to give practical
proofs of the value of maize as a food
for mankind. Not only did he display
before the muititudes at the exhibition
the verdant stalks as they grow IN Amer
lean soil; not only did he give lectures
for the edification of his hearers: not
only did he display the corn on the cob
and the corn meal from the mill; not
only did he tell of the hundred WAYS in
which 1t may be prepared for the table,
but he also cooked the food IN the pres
ence Of the public in great variety of
methods. and served It, at nominal
prices, 10 all visitors who could he in
duced 10 try any Of his preparations 4
visitor under the commissioner dIrec-
ton at the Edinburgh exhibition could
MUNICH the corn from the COB, or sup
mush with milk. or enjoy corn dodgers,
or test the taste of popcorn; he could get
baked mush. fried mush, croquettes of
mush or hasty pudding; he could get
homIny, fried or baked, coarse or
fine; he could get hOminy waf-
ties, hominy fritters, hominy mullins,
hominy turn-overs. hOminy pudding or
baked hOminy; he could get five kinds
of corn bread, besides ash cakes, hoe
cakes, Johnny cake. Cornphone or scones:
ne could get corn meal crumpets or grid
die cakes, cracking bread, doughnuts,
fiapjscks, snappers puffs or gems; he
could get a score of varieties Of corn pud-
dIngs or deserts: he could get green
corn boiled OF broiled, corn soup, corn
chowder. corn omelet. and popcorn balls.
In short, he saw with ms own eyes
that corn could be prepared for has con
sumption IN mole ways than there are
weeks IN the year
The display OF corn and Of the prepar-
alton Of Il. and OF the dishes made from
II at the exhibition, was a revelation and
a wonder 10 the multitude Of onlookers
and consumers. FeE Of them had pre-
viously any knowledge q It's value as
food for Young and old, rch and poor.
Very few Of them had ever before tasted
any II the preparations OF II, or T'osss-ss'sd
any idea 81 the nourishing and deiecta-
bic nature Of many Of these preparations
Commissioner MuTphy's practical
method II commencing American In