Middletown transcript., 1897-12-04

BFltal1 anu EuIOpo. W say H0tutuS Vi
the famished millions of Indiap
Again how few farmers feed corn TO
their stock to the best advantage
Still fewer are those who make the
cornstalk a source of prof.. And pro-
badly not one per cent of all the husks
in the crop are utilized. The waste of
corn fodder and fiber Is due to the idea
that they cannot be profitably employed.
In some sections this is partly true, but
what a grand field is here for improve
ment and invention to utilize for the
amelioration Of mankind this almost
universal and comparatively inexhaus-
tible fiber and fodderl What manu-
factures may be made from the plant
and its grain are as yet but family con-
ceived.
Unite brains and advertising. To
increase The consumption of corn genius
should be encouraged to originate new
uses for it. Then these new methods,
as well as existing ways of using the
grain, fodder and fiber, should be made
known to the public at home and
abroad by proper advertising. The en-
couragement offered should be so sub
| stantial as to attract the ablest talent,
and in such farm as to direct we'll
nigh universal attention to the pro-
blem.
The advertising should be SO novel
and effective, so directed and persisted
in, so extraordinary but perfectly legi-
innate as to force the domestic and for
eigD public to use more corn without
feeling that 1t is being forced to d.
The American Maize Exposition Cor
poration should be organized to take up
this work. 1t should be composed pf
all interested persons, and officered by
men Of large executive ability. The
different states should be fairly repre-
sented in its makeup. The industries
that depend upon the corn plant-live
stock, packing and provisions, agrieul-
ural implements and milling machinery
railroads, etc-should be included in
the management.
An International Exposition Devot-
ed to the Corn Plant and its Products
TO be held at Chicago or Buffalo in 1899
should be the main purpose of this cor
poration. 1t thould exhibit the corn
plant in all stages of growth, and of
every kind and variety, ancient and
modern.
Also exhibits of every possible use of
/ corn fodder, corn fiber, husks, ,cobs, ,ete.
The manifold uses Of the corn grain
would be shown by exhibitsof all forms
of corn food preparations, also stock
feed meal, etc. The Manufactured pro-
ducts from corn grain would also be
shown, such as alcohol, spirituous liq-
uors, syrups and the like.
/ This show may or may not be held
in connection with the American fat
stock show, but il should have de-
partment for cattle, sheep and hogs to
show the product of animals fed Oh
corn. Also a strong dairy department
to show the use of corn In this direc'
tion.
Large Prizes should be offered in al
the departments above named. Espec.
tally generous should be the cash prizes
and medals to stimulate inventors and
manufacturers to originate new pre-
parations Of corn as food for both mar
and beast, new methods of handling
the crop, new means of utilizing tht
fodder, fiber and husks. The corr
foods now on the market are most ex
cellent, but they are only a suggestion
of what can be dope. The new pro
cess of making paper from cornstalks
either before or after the pith is remov
ed, also lining for war ships, is-anothel
indication of an endless variety O
! schemes that ingenuity may devise fol
!, utilizing cornstalks. How few realize
) the hygiene and comfort in properl.
made husk mattress. Discoveries thai
shall fully utilize corn fber worth mil
j lions to the nation, and ever should b.
made to encourage them.
The American Monopoly of Corn is large
| ly due to the marvellous development 0
, machinery for growing, handling and mil
ling this crop. Yet the harvester, shredde
and husker are so new as not yet to b
generally introduced. And no one will sa
: that any implement, machine or proces
0 involved in any part of the work of rais
/ ing or using corn is beyond improvement
Liberality toward all these interests woul
accomplish wonders in the next two years
!, A Cooking School should demonstrat
. the thousand and one new and old method
: of cooking corn and its products. 1t shoul
, be big enough to accommodate larg
number Of pupils at once. SO arranged
q classes that thousands of women coul
!. receive these object lessons. Prizes Youl
s draw out many new ways of cooking Ii
cereal.
: Numerous branches or kitchens of til
cooking school, in all parts of the exhib
: tion, should serve corn food in every variet
free of all cost to every visitor. A pan
!. phlet descriptive Of every possible use
u the plant and its grain. and including a
+ cooking recipes. printed in several lal
l. guages, should be circulated by the milliol
a These cooking schools might well be ru
a on smaller scale in all the principal citi'
q lof America and other lands.
The essential idea of the great expos
tion should be to increase the consumpti
y of maize at home and abroad. To this en-
p it should be worked upon such compr
hensiYe scale as TO attract international a
IT tention and widespread notice throughol