The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-10-27

New and Valuable Ideas Advanced ~
Jonathan Perlmm.

Jonathan Perian.
Jonathan Periam, a well-known au- !
thority on agricultural topics, makes
some valuable suggestions about the
care OF corn between the times OF har-
vest and consumption. lie thinks the
cereal would be far more attractive To
Europeans IL offered 10 them In better
shape, and that the average American
consumer would like food prepared
from corn much better were IL not for
the fact that IL is allowed 70 become
musty, soured or bitter as 70 the germ,
which destroys its integrity as food
grain. He boldly advances the state
ment that, one year with another, In
dian corn kept in wide cribs through the
winter and subsequently in the com
mercial elevators is not in n proper con-
dition TO be used for human food, nor il
IL in the best state for the fattening
OF live stock. II is not strange that Eu-
ropeans decline TO use it as food when
the ordinary hog will refuse TO touch
corn year old II laid side by side with
sufficient quantity of newly pluclSed
corn taken directly from the fields of
the west In October. IL the corn could
be carried TO Europe in its perfect
state the people OF that part OF the
world would take kindly To 1t as q
precious food.
Ear corn, kept In the ordinary way
| In the wide cribs Of the west, heats in
the winter or early spring. 1t 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 II
the airing has been fairly carried on.
Corn that will terminate 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 IL artificial
w. The Indians knew how 20 ac-
complish this In better way. They
selected the best ears and placed them
IN holes in the ground, points down
ward, without removing the husk, the
J holes having capacity of about tive
bushels each, and being lined will
rushcs il necessary 70 dryness. The
deposit was mounded over with earth
! and the seeds never failed TO grow
+ promptly when planted. The secret o
. the process was complete exclusion
, from the air.
Mr.. Periam says when corn once ma
got out OF condition IL cannot be re
stored TO soundness 1t will MAKE
musty -four and meal in spite o
sulphuring and polishing, which ma.
deceive the superficial observer but no
the chemist
He advocates the building of store
houses in which corn and other FOO
products could be kept in air-tigh
chambers, and does not believe
would cost more than store room cor
structed on the present wasteful plar
The principle used in canning fruit
and egetables-exclusion OF the al
e might be extended in a more simpl
d way TO the cereals through storag
r elevators. When this Is done we ma
e have pure materials In the cerea
$ used for human sustenance, and IN
n man ingenuity will find the means {
u doing this economically Both d,
'r nestle and foreign consumers woul
N paw more for the -four and meal fro
y grain thus kept than for what Is mad
from grain that is musty, smutty, mi
dewed, sweated or infested wit
weevil. such as too often comes fro
"A our present system OF warehouse sto
age. 1t is certain that all the cerea
are far better as food IL containir
4, normal moisture OF about Is per cen
than after the moisture has been art
q ficially eliminated by kiln drying
/. other manipulation. -Chicago Tribun