Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-27
HOE-CAKE IN EUROPE.
Uncle Sans Efforts to Teach the
Old World That Corn Is Good.
AN EXTENSIVE AND NOVEL PLAN.
Germany Has Already Learned to Make
Bread of Neal and Rye.
Y EXTENSIVE AND NOVEL PLAN.
MORE MONEY FOB AMERICAN FARMERS
rwRITrEN FOB THE DISPATCH

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.l
Suggestions for sending shipIoads of corn
to feed the famine sufferers in Russia seem
likely to be carried out. Word has been
| conveyed to the Government at Washing
ton from St. Petersburg that aid in such a
form would be very gratefully received.
Coincidently with the shipping of the grain,
an agent of the Department of Agriculture
will visit various parts of the Cars do
minions and set up kitchens for the purpose
of showing the people how this sort of food
ought to be prep for human consump-
tion. Thus utility will be combir ed with
charity, and Uncle Sam will later on reap
an advantage by securing through the intro
duction of this cereal a new market for his
most important crop. For it must be re
membered that maize as an article of diet is
unknown in Northern Europe. When ves-
sells laden with it were sent from this coun-
try to ireland few years ago to feed the
furnishing there the nutritious freight was
at first well-nigh rejected because it was
considered only fit for householder.
During the last few months a special
agent of the Department of Agriculture
has been in Berlin, trying to teach the Ger
mans to eat corn. Having set up small
kitchens in different parts of the capital,
he has distributed corn bread, corn flap
jacks, corn dodgers, and other preparations
of the grain, among the people. serving
them not and either free of charge or at a
nominal price he has succeeded IN inter-
esting the Government in the subject to
such an extent that corn, mixed with rye,
has been recommended officially TOR the ra-
tions of the army Owing to the fact that
the Car has prohibited the expectation of
rye from Russia, on account OF the threat
ened famine, Germany's main supply of
that cereal has been cut Oft 1t is proposed,
therefore, in place of rye bread, the soldiers
shall be supplied with bread made half of |
rye and half of corn. Thus there is reason |
to believe that this great European nation
will have acquired taste for the American |
vegetable before long, and SO become reg
uIar purchaser of it from the United States
ItIsAlready the Market.
Already merchant named Wilzynski
has opened a great store on one of the
principal streets of Berlin, for selling by |
Wholesale and retail bread made Of corn and
rye. Inasmuch is his product is offered for
40 per cent less than rye bread can be
bought for, it has every prospect of obtain
ing popularity. When ten loaves of the
new food can be got for the price of six
loaves of the old, the inducement from the
point of view of the toiling masses is very
great. 1t Is anticipated that before long |
the bakers all over Germany will be baking
bread of corn and rye Anther firm in Ber-
lin is about to go into the manufacture and
sale of cornmeal mush, put up in packages
IL pounds each, or to be sold in cardbord
dishes. An international exhibition, TO be
opened at Leipsic, February 4, will be
largely devoted to cooking and domestic
economy generally. An agent of the United
States Department of Agriculture will
probably be sent there to make a show of
corn and the methods of preparing it.
As for the project of sending shiploads
of corn to Russia, Secretary Rusk is quoted