The morning call., 1892-11-20

OF Europe for some years. He has had corn
exhlblts at the leading agricultural and in
uus.riai exhibitions of Europe during the
past eight years and he has been going among
the bakers Of Scotland. England and parts
OF me Continent and showing them how
10 COOK this meal. He went TO Russia and
showed the people there how to mix the In
uIah corn with rye to make the bread which
was used by the famine sufferers. and he is
uoing what ne can here 10 push the matter
WIN the German Government. He receives
salary OF $500 year from the Agricult-
urai department, and this, with a thousand
Goilats Tor his secretary, is all that the
GIooVeInment Is spending on this enterprise.
ue truth OF the matter is that there sh ould
oe dozen men here instead of one, and
that the very best and most practical bust
ness men of the United States should be
seiected. They should be seat here with
soou supply or money, aud the corn used
LOT experimenting should be selected corn
from the best soil and the best seed. The
bread should be introduced through the best
society. much as William Walter Phelps
introduced 1t at the dinner which he gave to
Dlsinafck and others, where the only bread
GU the taole was corn bread, so made that it
was as light and white as wheat bread, aud
II should not be brought forth as a starva-
ZION ieod or cheap food.
cnatted with Colonel Murphy last night
a s.o, his work and the prospects. Said he:
we are now making a bread of rye flour
and cofnmeal. The proportions are one
third corn and and two-thirds rye, and the
nread Is fully as nutritious as the rye bread.
III Is more digestible and at least IS per cent
cheaper. lie element OF cheapness makes
great dlference with the Germans, and in
this country every cent counts. This bread
mas the same taste rs the rye bread and the
rye completely conceas the taste OF the
corn. L have no doubt but that il Will be
ADOPTED by the army. and if it is it will be
used by The best disciplined fighting force in
oratt nyttH
save over $1,000. 900 a year by using il and
us adoption would mean a demand for this
purpose alone Of many million bushels of
our Indian corn every year. If it is used in
me army 1t VIII soon be introduced all over
germany. Every family in Germany has
one or more of its members in the army, and
this cheap and nutritious food would in
tnls way reach to every house in the en-
pre-. Already the maize is getting footing
among The people al large. There are more
IMAM thirty mills In Germany which are
grinding Indian corn fer human food, and
many OF the bakers are using from SO to 40
per cent OF maize with their rye. There are
a number of bakers hero In Berlin who are
selllbg H. and the corn is making its way
very fast"
rs the cornmeal the same rs ours?"
asked.
Ne" replied Colonel Murphy. "The
bread used in Germany must keep much
longer than in America. The average Ger
Ht~H o"hihS tdhcS pldce Only OHCe week,
ana there Is too much oil In the corn for il
To keep this long if it Ia ground as 1t is
ordinarily ground in the United States.
ihe most OF this oil is in the little germ at
the end OF the grain OF corn, and we get rid
OF TINS by cutting it out by DISCRIMINATING
machine. Ii Is then almost as free from oil
as rye. and it makes finer flour than many
people ia America can realize. 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 So 20 per 200 pounds, and the same
amount nf fine maize -four can be had for
about So 30, and many of the bakers are
using II without the knowledge of their Gus
TONERS, who suppose thew are eating cakes
made from Vienna flour. found a baker in
England who was using cur cOrnmeal
In this way. One day when passing gro
cery-stoIe was attracted BY CANDY sign
advertising wheat preparation which was
guaranteed to be excellent for puddings.
! had strong suspicion that this was some
form OF Indian corn, and / bought one
pound box of 1t for 10 cents aud took il
home to try 1t for my Sunday dinner. We
cooked II and found IL was nothing more or
less than old fashioned American mush
hayored with vanilla. Here in Germany
TINS c0rnmeal is being used in large Quanti-
ties by the restaurants as a thickeniDg for
soups aud Tor gravies. Ii is driving out the
Chinese rice, which does not give as COED
results and costs more. The Germans like
thick soups, and the German housewife is
waking up 10 the advantages OF Indian
corn"
when do you think the Government will
decide as TO the use IF the corn by the
army"
Il don't know" was the reply, ''but ex-
rect TO hear from them daily. In addition
TO their experiments on the bread they are
experimenting on a 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 IL is now, the
duty on imported meal Is so much greater
than that on raw corn that the most OF the
corn here would have to be ground by Ger
man millers. The nillers are watching the
experiments carefully and they are ready TO
buy machinery. the moment any decided
movement has been made. AS 1t is now,
Germany imports about one-thIrd Of its food
supply, and L hope to see this third made
up largely OF Indian corn. In the event Of
a wal with Russia the supply OF rye
which GERMANY now gets from there would
be cut of and the Germans would be mater
tally crippled from the lack OF it. BY the
way, young man. do you know any hing
about Indian corn?"
IL have planted il. heed and husked it."
said l. and l ought to know something
about it,
well. what do you know about it?"
As / stopped To think Colonel Murphy
went on: Whatever you know | can prob
ably tell you something mGre. Our foreign
crop is the biggest grain crop of he world
and We turn out some thing like 1000, coo. 600
bushels of corn every year, and we have six
States which produce over 100000. 600
bushels. Have you any Idea what this
means? Forty bushels Of sheIled corn is a
good load for team OF horses, and il you
would load iha; crop upon wagons, putting
the noses OF the horses heads 10 the tall
boards of the wagons in front of them, the
the line OF wagons would reach away In a
straight line for more than 10000 miles, If
II could cross the ocean il would go six
tines around the earth and have nearly
5000 miles Of wagons yet to spare. A single
years crop OF American corn would make
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 20 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 Francisco, and they would block
up all the trunk lines Of the country. And
the most OF this corn comes from only six
States, though corn can be raised in nearly
every State of the Union. Out Of every
thousand acres of arabic land In the coun-
try only forty-one are devoted TO corn, and
IL the price Is raised by this European de-
mand we will have millions upon millions
of acres of new corn fields. Suppose we
increase our areas only one-tenth this will
add SO, 100000 10 our corn receipts and the
money received from corn now by us 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
1t Is now II we can get an increase Of
cents bushel on corn we will add $780,
OOo,000 TO our receipts this year, and il you
could divide this increase up among the
families of the United States it would give
more than Sc a family. Our corn crop in
1889 vas worth more than 500, O00 GOO, and
l expect 1t TO run into the billions when
thesr people here are eating corn bread"
The most of that is new to me-, said l.
What more do Won knoW 2"