Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-24

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practical demonstration OF the value
of corn as food, kitchen having been
opened where bread, crackers and a
number of table delicacies are TO be
had for the asking.
Mr. e. ID. Coburn, secretary OF the
Kansas state board of agriculture, was
chosen chairman of the convention.
He said
The object Of our coming together Is TO con-
| fer about the ways and means by which Amer
ica's premier crop and wonderful cereal may be
better understood and appreciated by the
| world at large, We are satisfied that scarcely
one person in 100000 comprehends the mQgni-
tude OF It's product its money value, its innu-
merable uses and possibilities or its whole
someness us a universal food for animal and
man. The central western states are the
home and habitat of Indian corn.
The government statistics show the
acreage devoted to corn to have been in recent
years about ten per cent greater than the ag-
| gregate devoted to wheat oats, barley buck
| wheat and potatoes: In 1895 the acreage was IS
per cent greater, We hear much OF the wheat
| crop, and the casual reader of the newspapers
would suppose there was no other which could
rightly be compared with It, Statistics, how
ever, show that during the last decade the vail
ue one year with another, Of our corn crop has
been nearly double-9g per cel,t greater than
TINT Of our wheat The value of the corn cron
| in this decade has been about the same as the
combined value of wheat. oats barIov buck-
| wheat and POTATOES produced in the same me-
Rod
In the last three or four vears we bavo heard
! much of silver and its imnortance and from
the attention, oratory and printers ink devot-
ca to It we might suppose that 1t was the one
ite petore wn,o on ooners paea ana SANK
product Of American silver mipo. however STi
during the three years ended with 1895 was less
than s45'5OOOOl, while the average value of
corn iS Seo e@ Nno or inc iss ten years
times the value Of ali our silver which in IKE
minds Of so many is endowed with well nigh
godlike attributes Adding to the silver the
UuSput ., sou' we annually produce corn worm
precious and muc I,' coveted metals '''I '-'''
am proud to come from state regarded bv
many Of the benishted and unsophisticnted as
sonleoa' t oI aIeserI wnlcn wnie Delng trans
ful garden # is Coming to be has in os vears
produced corn that in the fields had value Of
more than aSse, 100000 and in the last two years
n MADAM an output Oh 91oVOo,ooo bushels Thesefe
meeting here to devise and uenm iUr Uui
through which corn SHAH obtain wider recog-
milton and the appreciation which its merits
must command CONSIDER IL not only great
6mtv os wn 70 Sa ,do U VuU ,b puoliocie
effort which and the people I represent wish
hearty God-speed.
Following Chairman Coburn, j. j.
Murphy, of Chicago, presented i'm
formation regarding the corn move.
ment Mr. Murphy is the son of Col.
Charles j. Murphy, of New York, who
was the first to introduce American
corn foods abroad, and to whom, it is
asserted, the corn growers are largely
indebted for the increase of the con-
sumption OF corn in Europe, the ex.
ports having increased in four years
from Al 100000 bushels to 1888, OOO 900 |
bushels.
j. R. Rippey, of Columbia. Mo-. and
Col. Thomas w. Harrison. of Topeka,
Kan, were selected as two of the mem |
bers of the national executive com.