Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-01
AMERICAN CORN ABROAD.
Success of the Government Agents IN
Popularizing Corn In Europe
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Popuiarizing Corn in Europe
Especial Correspondence.
NEW YORK, June 30.-The department
of agriculture has just issued an exhibit
which cannot but be of exceeding in
terest throughout the country, being
nothing less than triumphant demon
stration of the splendid success attained
by the American corn missionary, Mr.
Charles J. Murphy, in his work OF popu-
larizing maize as an article OF food In
Europe. A very practical evidence OF
what he has achieved is the report OF
Mr. Walter E. Gardner, American con-
sul at Rotterdam Netherlands, to the
effect that while during the first three
months of 1891 the total importation OF
American corn at that port was only
81, 1898 bushels, the quantity brought IN
during a corresponding period OF the
present year was 3,203,006 bushels, most
of which was transshipped to Germany
But the most striking and significant
bit of evidence sent out with the de-
partlnent's report is a red poster, one OF
those now employed for the decoration
of Berlin and the information OF the
hungry masses of Deutschland. 1t is
only . feet long by 10 inches wide; but
that is big in the old world. where the
economy in use of paper is such that
even theatrical show bills and circus
posters are customarily of modest size
At its head the American eagle Is de-
picted in the act of screaming. Then
follows in large letters:
MURPHY BRoD
On Roggen, III Mais)
Pfund 60 Pfennge.
Fruherer Pieis fur Pfund 30 Pr.
Succeeding are announcements o.
q. Muller's big bakery, with its toul
: branches, in Berlin, at which the Muir
, rhy brod" is obtainable. Putting int
S plain English the facts Herr Muller thu
= presents to his countrymen, he offers fo
sixty pfennige about fifteen cents)
; quantity of bread, composed of two
thirds rye and one-third corn flour, TO
! which, at the rate charged previousl.
r for rye bread, S31S pfennige (nearl,
/, twenty-one cents, would have been de
n manded. A reduction of little over
o cent on each pound of bread he con
y sumes means great deal to the Ger
u man workingman, particularly when h
learns, as he speedily will, that the ne'
and cheaper bread is more palatable an
+ nutritious than that to which he ha
been accustomed.
. According to the representations OF
!. correspondent of the Paris newspape
h La Telegraphie, writing from Berlin
+ the demand for the Murphy brod" is S
3. great that customers at the bakerie
n supplying it have to form in line, an
1t there is already complaint that som
If rascally bakers, while pretending to d.
cry the new bread, are secretly mixin
. maize -four with their rye in order
: compete with the excellent quality
n the murphy brod," and at the SAN
n time charge the old prices for the
er product. That, however, under a pate
nal government like the German, whel
= the police regulate everything, is ma
ter which will soon be set straight 1
doubt.
n In Hamburg an American firm hay
gone into the business of supplyir
q murphy brod" to the public, and the
success has spread dismay among Il
"a conservative bakers who have anita
onized the new -four. Wherever q