Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-20

and there is too much oil In the corn Tor Ii
to keep this long If it is ground as it is
ordinarily ground in the United States.
The most of this oil is in the little germ at
the end of the grain of corn, and we get rid
of this by cutting it out by degerminating
machine. 1t is then almost as free from oil
as rye, and it makes finer flour than many
people in America can realize.
The Finest of White Bread.
'1t will make the finest of white bread,
and it is being used for cake baking here
with splendid results Vienna pastry -four
costs here SS IS per 200 pounds and the
same amount of fine maize -four can be had
for about So so, and many of the bakers are
using it without the knowledge of their Gus
toners, who suppose they are eating cakes
made from Vienna -four. l found a baker
in England who was using our cornmeal in
this way. One day when passing grocery
store 1 was attracted by gaudv
sign advertising a wheat preparation
which was guaranteed to be excellent
for puddings. 1 had strong sus-
| picion that this was some form of Indian
| corn and / bought one-pound box of it for
10 cents and took it home to try it for my
Sunday dinner We cooked it and we
found it was nothing more or less than old
| fashioned American mush favored with
vanilla. Here in Germany this cornmeal
| is being used in large quantities bv the res
| taurants as thickening for soups and for
gravies. 1t is driving out the Chinese rice,
which does not give as good results and
and costs more. The Germans like thick
soups, and the German housewife is waking
up to the advantages of Indian corn
"When do you think the Government
will decide as to the use of the corn by the
army?"
81 don't know" was the reply, ''but 1 ex-
| pect to hear from them daily. In addition
to their experiments on the bread they are
experimenting on biscuit for the navy,
which will be composed partly of maize.
The army has its own mills for
the grinding of much of its meal,
and, as it is now, the duty on i'm
ported meal is so much greater than that on
raw corn that the most of the corn mere
would have to be ground BY German millers.
In the Event of War.
'The millers are watching the expert
ments carefully and they are ready to buy
machinery the moment any decided move
ment has been made. As it is now, Ger
many. imports about one-third of its food
supply, and hope to see this third made
up largely of Indian corn. In the event of
a war with Russia the foreign supply of rye
which Germany now gets from there would
be cut off and the Germans would be
materially crippled from the lack of it. A
single years crop OF American corn
would make a road of wagons forty
four abreast from New York to San
Francisco, and if 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 to San Fran
cisco and they would block up all the trunk
lines of the country. And the most of this
corn comes from six States, though corn can
be raised in nearly every State of the Union.
Out of every thousand acres of arabic land
in the country only Al are devoted to corn,
and if the price is 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
to our corn receipts and the money received
from corn now by us is enormous We get
more out of our corn fields every year THAI
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 it is now if VIC can get
an Increase of 5 cents a bushel on corn we
will add hundred million dol
lars to our receipts this year, and if you
could divide this increase up among the
families of the United States it would give
more than S. family. Our corn crop in
1889 was worth more than 500, COO, 600, and
/ expect it to run into the billions when
these people here are eating corn bread"
Only a Small Export Now.
"How much corn do we ship to Europe
now?"
''Only about 4per cent of our entire crop.
The people OF Europe know practically
nothing of the advantages of Indian corn,
i have been trying to introduce it in a
dozen different countries. and in Scotland |
had a corn palace where showed over g.
600, 600 visitors the worth of corn as human
food. 1 gave thousands of children from
tine different charitable organizations free
meals, and some of these institutions are
now using Indian corn. got the people of
Glasgow to using it and in ireland L know |
they are now eating great deal of Indian
corn, which they use in the form of musn,
which they call 'stir-about' There is
a big field for American canned corn in |
Europe and the Government ought to be |
showing our corn and its uses at the differ |
ent exhibitions here If a retail grocery |
establishment could be selected in the dit |
ferent cities and towns in which for few |
weeks good baker could prepare Indian |
corn for the people and give it away, be- |
lieve in a short time the people of the vari- |
Gus countries would get to using it, and the |
outlay would be quickly repaid in our in
creased exports.
Everyone is waiting until the Govern
ment authorities have made their decision
upon it, and upon this decision the i'm
mediate success of American corn in Ger
many and among the German people will
stand or fall FRANK G. CARPENTER