Arizona republican., 1894-11-06

thority on agricultural topics, makes some valuable suggestions about the care of corn between the times of bar vest and consumption. He thinks the cereal would be far more attractive to Europeans if offered to them in better shape, and that the average American consumer would like food preparetl from corn much better were it not for the fact that it is allowed to become musty, soured or bitter as to the germ, which destroys it's integrity as food grain. He boldly advances the state ment that, one year with another, h. dian corn kept in wide cribs through the winter and subsequently, in the com mercial elevators is not in aproper con dition to be used for human food, nor is it in the best state for the fattening of live stock. Itis not strange that Flu ropeans decline to use it as food when the ordinary hog will refuse to touch corn a year old if laid side by side with a suthc ent quantity of newly plucked corn taken directly from the fields of the west in October If the corn could be carried to Europe in it's perfect state the people of that part of the world would take kindly to it as precious food,
 Ear corn, kept in the ordinary way in the wide cribs of the west, heats in the winter or early spring. It acquires a bitter or musty taste while on the cob, and when shelled the chemical process thus sta rted goes steadily for ward in the ordinary elevator, even il the airing has been fairly carried on. Corn that will germinate promptly neither has been heated in the crib nor has the germ been severely frozen. Seedsmen compass this by plucking the corn when just ripe. before freez- ing weather, and drying it artificial ly. The Indians knew how to ac- complish this in a better way. They selected the best ears and placed them in holes in the ground, points down ward, without removing the huslz, the | holes having capacity of about two bushels each, and being lined with rushes if necessary to dryness. The deposit was mounded over with earth, and the seeds never failed to grow promptly when planted. The secret of the process was complete exclusion
 from the air.
 Mir. Periam says when corn once has got out of condition it cannot be re-
 stored to soundness. It will make
 musty four and meal in spite ot
 sulphuring and polishing, which may
 deceive the superficial observer but moi
 the chemist.
 He advocates the building of store
 houses in which corn and other fooC
 products could be kept in air-tight
 chambers, and does not believe i
 would cost more than store room con
 structed on the present wasteful plan
 The principle used in canning fruit
 and getables-exclusion of the al
 might be extended in more silnpl;
 way to the cereals through stora r' elevators When this is done we ma,
 have pure materials in the cerea.
 used for human sustenance, and, hi , man ingenuity will find the means c doing this economically. Both dc [ mestic and foreign consumers woult pay more for the flour and meal fror } rrain thus kept than for what is mad rom grain that is musty. smutty, mi 5 dewed. sweated or infested wit l weevil. such as too often comes frol r our pre- sent system of warehouse sto1 ) age. lt is certain that all the cereal l are far better as food if containin t normal moisture of about 15 per cen {; than after the moisture has been art g ficially eliminated by kiln drying (
 other manipulation. Chicago Iribun'