Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-01

interchangeable endeavors OF Mr. Murphy
have enabled the public to test and
prove the virtues of Indian corn lively
appreciation of its'desirability as food
has been demonstrated, and it is no
longer admissible of question that
through his enthusiastic efforts-pri-
marily, simply as private individual,
"because he was that sort of crank,
and later as an accredited agent of our
governmental wonderful impetus has
been given to the worlds demand for
one of our chief products. 1t is fact
not generally known that we devote an
acreage to corn growing exceeding the
aggregate area devoted to all other
cereals and potatoes, double that cut for
hay. and greater than all upon which
wheat, oats and cotton are cultivated.
Even in the eleven cotton growing states
a larger area of cultivated land is de-
voted to corn than to cotton. The acre
age now planted in corn annually, &C
cording to the statistics of the depart
ment of agriculture, sis greater than the
total surface area of New England, New
York and New Jersey combined; greater
than the whole area of the United King
dom or of Belgium, Holland, Switzer-
land, Denmark, Portugal and Greece
combined 1t more than equals in ex-
tent the total cultivated land in France
or Germany or Austria Hungary, and is
three-fourths as large as the aggregate
acreage sown to wheat in all the coun-
tries of Europe together"
About 90 per cent. of this enormous
production is annually consumed in the
country, more than so per cent. never
crosses the lines of the country where 1t
is grown, and not only is 1t a leading
staple for the food of man and beast,
but on the broad prairies of the west
where wood is scarce vast quantities OF
it have been consumed as fuel Our
production of corn since 1869 has aver
aged 1.455, 99S, 094 bushels per annum,
and our average expectation has been
only 3.S per cent. up to the present year.
Not only in quantity but in quality does
orr corn lead the world. Inferior maize
of unpalatable sorts is grown in Italy,
Spain and parts of France, and there is
also Danubian corn, fit only for chicken
feed, but the United States monopolizes
the supply of this cereal fit for human
consumption. Hungary, Russia, India
, and the Argentine Republic may COM
pete with our wheat crop, but American
, corn has practically no rivals. Hence
! nothing can be of much greater i'm
portance in the line of developing the
value of our resources than such work
> as Mr.. Murphy has been doing. In the
language of Secretary Rusk, Gould we
= secure an advance of even five cents o
. bushel on an average for corn during
J, the ensuing decade, which might well
q be done and still enable us to supply the
:, foreign demand at a price far below that
:, of other cereal foods of equal value, the
> result would be to add 81 900, 900, 900 te
. the value Of this crop during that pc
q Rod" d. ID. CoNNELLf'
n A hypocrite's mouth has more death In
: It than that of mad dog.
@ A Philadelphia crank wears his hair In
t. a long plat down his back.
% One of the very first duties every Chris
tian owes to God is to be happy.
q For 100 0C0 cigars an Elk county (kan.
& man recently traded off his farm
ir He remembers his stewardship wh'
10 seeks to elevate and help mankind.
Z All the chickens in the western part o
10 French Guiana are perfectly white.