The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-28
OUR CORN IN EUROPE.
MIR. Murphy's Efforts to Increase the
American Abroad.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Before / sail to America / feel that it is
due to your valuable journal and your kind
Endorsement OF my work, official and other
wise, to say how much / thank you, and
How cheering your words of Endorsement
have been to me. We are all human, you
know. and a word of praise goes as far
with me as with any other m particu-
larly when one labors sometimes against
discouraging circumstances, as everyone is
aware that nothing is more difficult to up
root than inherited prejudices. which our
national grain has always had to combat,
particularly in regard to human food. Now
that prejudice to a great extent has been
lessened, people are more willing to receive
our Indian corn as a breadstuf, markets
lave been created for its sale that never
before had been dreamed of and our ex-
porters can and should indorse this state
ment, which had resulted largely to their
profit. But the greatest success of the Agri-
cultural Department has been in northern
Europe. and I recall with pleasure Minister
Carr's Endorsement Of the corn propaganda
and his cheerful aid to the same. and on
his authority L assert that not one pound
of manufactured corn could be obtained in
the Kingdom of Denmark. and previous to
my coming he was obliged to send to
America for what he required for his own
use.
Now what a change. In the principal
shops of Copenhagen and throughout Den
where displayed and extensively sold
through their enterprising merchants.
Every large brewery now in Denmark ex-
cept one brews now by American methods
and imports our American corn brew meal,
one firm ordering at a time forty tons. Car
loads arrive frequently to be utilized in the
so M praU nrnUfnO fha Ornaf ca fiCfapfinn
brew meal gives. California wines and
fruits are also now extensively sold, and
forced TO establish through the great de-
mand for Americas products an American
annex to their already very large establish.
ment, where only American products will
be sold. and through their numerous agen-
cies distributed throughout Scandinavia. All
these results prove the wisdom of the APP
have passed and those of the present year
to give official aid and increase outlets in
foreign lands not alone for maize but for
all of our products of which we raise more
than we can consume. The wine industry
of California has received a great benefit
in the award recently obtained at the Ant
fix attention OF European buyers to the ex-
cellence of our native wines which cannot
m be dis cr = as that the e65u uISy b %aS convened One oe 'i IN
Europe and the wine furnished was Of such
a quality that might easily court such =
judgment. Already has the effect been
AlALA ~ III
are now negotiating for the exclusive agen-
cies for our native wines, and now France
and Germany will lave to look TO their
laurels. as we will epter the lists in conpe-
tition in many OF the countries OF the old
world. In Belgium the work of the Agri-
cultural Department has given a great i'm
petus to the importations of American brew
meal to be used in many of their large
breweries, Notwithstanding the high prices
which now rule for this article, and the
chemical congress recently closed at Brus-
sells has placed beyond a doubt the advisa-
bility of using Indian corn flakes and other
corn products in the preparation Of their
beer. In Holland. where / now am, I Sc
cured the first order for the American
agent that has ever been given in the king
dom Of Holland at The Hague from one Of
the largest breweries there. 1t is to be re-
GREETED the scarce crop at home, which will
make the price excessive this year, but the
work of the Agricultural Department has
been sown on good ground, and IL will add
greatly TO the prosperity Of our country as
the years roll on and the demand increases.
proving the value of the Official aid given
to the extending of foreign markets In Eu-
ropean countries. as a government repre-
receive attention that the representative Of
a private firm could never obtain. and Ger
many. recognizing this fact, has recently
attached a commercial special agent to the
German consulate at Chicago, which means
for her country a great deal.
Rotterdam, Oct. Ia. c. j.