Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-19

the foreign supply OF rye which GERMANY now
gets from there would be cut OFF and the Ger
mans would be materially crippled from the
lack of 1t. BY the way, young man, do you know
anything about Indian corn?''
Il have planted it, hoed and husked it" said
l, "and ought to know something about it."
"Well, what do you know about itl''
OUR FOREIGN CROP AND THE FUTURE
As stopped to think, Col. Murphy went on
whatever you know 1 can probably tell YOU
something more Our foreign crop is the big
gest grain crop of the world and we turn ont
something like 1000, 600 600 bushels Of corn
every year and we have six states which mo-
duce over ,000. 900, 600 bushels Have YOU apv
idea what that means? Forty bushels of shelled
corn Is good load for team of horses and il
yon would load that crop upon wagons, putting
the noses OF the horses heads to the tailboards
of the wagons in front of them. tine line of
wagons would reach away in a straight line for
more than 100000 miles. If it could cross the
oceans, it would go six times around the earth
aud have nearly 1000 miles of wagons yet to spare
single year crop of American corn would make
road Of wagons forty-four abreast from New
York to San Francisco. and il this amount were
loaded in 500 bushel lots in freight cars the
train would reach from the west to New York.
across the Atlantic ocean, across Europe and
nearly to the Pacific shores Of Asia before the
last car was on the track. These cars would form
four continuous freight trains from New York
up all the trunk lines of the
country. And the most of this corn
comes from only six states, and corn can be
raised in nearly every state Of the Union. Out
of every thousand acres Of arabic land in
the country only forty-one are devoted
to corn, and if the price ia raised by this
European demand we will have millions upon
millions OF acres of new corn fields.
Suppose We increase our areas only one-tenth
this will add fifty millions of dollars 10
our corn receipts and the money received from
corn now by ms Is enormous We get more
out of our corn fields every year than we do
out Of our gold, silver and lead mines, Our
corn receipts are greater than all the dividends
OF our railroad stocks and they are more than
all the dividends Of our national banks. As il
il now If we can get an increase Of s cents a
bushel on corn We will add a hundred million
dollars to our receipts this year, and Won
could divide this increase up among thefamilies
OF the United States it would give more than
20 family. Our corn crop in 1889 was worth
more than $7o0, 600 600, and expect it to run
into the billions when these people here are
eating corn bread"
The most Of that is new to me-" said L
what more do you know?''
well" continued Col Murphy with laugh.
II know that corn itself is quite % interesting
a. the corn crop. Here IN = picture of grain
OF corn greatly magnifed, which win chow
You moro shout It than can tell you. II Is
kernel OF Dent corn cut perpendicularly
through the middle. There are = number
Of varieties Of Indian corn and thjs d one Of
the best. You see that each kernel Of
corn II made up OF hundreds Of little starch
boxes, each Of which il packed full of tfutri-
ment, and there are Il, 900 Of these kernels In =
bushea Of corn, and in our corn product OF oue