Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-10-05
INDIAN CORN.
How It Is Being Introduced as Food in
Germany,

How It Is Being introduced as Food In
Germany.
Among the first discoveries of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth was maize, or, as /
they called it, Indian corn, and the vir-
tues of corn meal for man and beast are
familiar But the nutritious grain has
not generally penetrated Europe, and J
an Indian corn propaganda has been !
recently started in Germany, with very
promising results. Thirteen mills have
been put in operation for grinding corn,
and some of them have been working
night and day, and have been unable
to fill their orders Several other mills
in various parts of Germany will soon
be erected, the demand for corn Is so
great In Dresden, where two corn
mills are in operation, more than half
the bakers are selling maize rye bread,
composed of one part maize and two
parts rye, in which the taste of the
maize is not perceived. Even the two
mills in the latter city are baking and
selling large quantities of this bread,
and the old government garrison
bakery is turning out thousands of
| loaves daily.
The United States consul at Rottcr-
dam mentions the great increase in the
| irnportations of Indian corn. The Ger
man Millers' association has taken the
| alarm, and corn has been assailed as an
article of human food with an energy at
! which the Yankee must smile, seeing
what people has been bred upon 1t.
A well-informed correspondent In Ber-
lin writes MY firm opinion is that
when the German people know the full
value of Indian corn as human food,
they will consume as much as we do in
proportion to the number of inhab-
itants. The government is now putting
a corn-milling plant in their large mill
at Magdeburg, and the government re-
port on the value of corn as food will
soon be published, which is the result
of thorough investigation and prac-
tical testing of bread-making at the
garrison bakery in this city, and which,
l am informed by the commission, will
be highly favorable"
Probably without knowledge of these
facts, correspondent pleads for maize,
or Indian corn, as the most fitting ma
tional flower; as native of the CONT
nent, while the goldenrod has Euro
pean variety. what could compare
with it in sculpture or in harmony of
, tint for the artist, whether we choose
the tender tasselled blossom croyvning
the tall stem, the long leaf waving in
the wind, or the golden ear in its brown
sheath? 1t may be urged that the
; flower is not the striking feature of this
; plant, but when we take the tout en-
semble, there is nothing finer in the
botanical world. The shamrock of Ire
. land is generally represented by its
, leaf, not the blossom, therefore we
might reasonably take the fruit of the
/ maize as our emblem, for does it not
3 typify peace, prosperity, labor susten-
5 ance? Neither the goldenrod nor the
= pansy has any prominent traits; the
s abundance of the one, the lowliness OF
s the other, can only be claimed for them
Y Our correspondent kindly reminds u:
of fact with which we were not alto
: gether unfamiliar, that Lowell's hom
2 age to the dusty gold" occurs in hi:
: poem to a dandelfon. But there car
. be no question that Barlow's "IIasty
Pudding" one of the earliest of Amer
4 lean poems, dealt wholly with Ameri
n can Indian corn.-Harper's Weekly.