Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-02-24

practical demonstration Of the value
OF corn us food, kitchen having been
opened where bread, crackers and a
number OF table delicacies are to be
had for the asking.
Mr. +. ID. Coburn, secretary OF the
Kansas state board Of agriculture, was
chosen chairman Of the convention.
lie said:
The object Of our coming together Is to con.
fer about the ways and means by which Amer.
icas premier crop and wonderful cereal MAJ DO
better understood and appreciated by the
world at large We are satisfied that scarcely
one person in 100000 comprchends the magni-
tude OF Its product, Its money value, Its innu-
merable uses ind possibilities, or its whole
someness Us universal food for animal and
man. The central western states ore tho
home ind habitat Of Indian corn.
The government statistics show the
acreage devoted to corn to have been In recent
wears about ten per cent greater than the ag-
gregate devoted to wheat, oats, barley, buck
wheat and potatoes In 1893 the acreage was 10
per cent greater We hear much OF the wheat
crop ind the casual reader Of the newspapers
would suppose there was no other which could
rightly be compared with IL Statistics, how
ever, show that during the lust decade the val
ue, one year with another, of our corn crop has
been nearly double-09 per cent greater than
that Of our wheat The value Of the corn crop
In this decade has been about the same on the
combined value Of wheat, oats, barley, buck
wheat and potatoes produced In the same Pc
Rod
In the last three OF four years we have heard
much Of silver and its Importance, ind from
the attention, oratory ana printers ink devote
cd to II we might suppose that II was the one
interest before which oil others paled and sank
into insignihcance The average annual
product Of American silver Mines however,
during the three years ended with 1898 was less
than s46,5OOO00, while the average value OF
American corn for each Of the last ten years
has been nearly 1850, 0U0 00O, or more than l3h
times the value Of oil our silver, which In the
minds Of 40 many Is endowed with we'll nigh
godlike attributes Adding to the silver the
output Of gold, we annually produce corn worth
more than seven times as much as both these
precious and much coveted metals
l an proud TO come from o state regarded by
many OF the benighted and unsophisticated as
something Of DESERT which, while being trans
formed from buffalo range into the wonder
full garden II Is coming to be, has, In 70 years,
produced corn that In the fields had value Of
more than tS26, 900 00O and In the last two years
had ON output OF 87b, 0OO 00O bushels. These few
simple facts afford ample justification for our
meeting here TO devise ways md means by and
through which corn shall obtain wider recog-
milton and the appreciation which It's merits
must command. consider II not only great
pleasure and great honor but o patriotic
duty as well, To be Identified with such o.
effort, which and the people represent wish
q hearty God-speed.
Following Chairman Coburn, J. J.
Murphy, Of Chicago, presented in
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, 1t is
asserted, the corn growers are largely
indebted for the increase OF the con.
Of corn in Europe, the ex.
ports having increased In four years
from 100000 bushels to 1888, 900, 900 |
bushels. Col Murphys attention was
asst called to the value Of corn by ex-
Mayor Hewitt, of New York.
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
mittee. Plans were mapped out for
extensive exhibits Of corn products at
The Omaha and Buffalo expositions
and at the Paris exposition in 1900.
The executive committee will meet in
Omaha next November.
Arrangements had been made for
giving a practical demonstration OF
The value OF corn as food, a kitchen
having been opened where bread,
crackers and number Of table deli
,acies were TO be had for the asking.
Miss Emma Sickles was In charge and
Mrs Auman, Of Decatur, presided over
he mixing Of the dough Mrs Auman
s called the lightning biscuitmaker
:, he is said 10 hold the record and turns
tut 5000 fresh, crisp biscuits
lay when the stove is working salts
actorily. The object Of the exhibit
vas to show the merits Of corn -four.
Biscuits made from flour about 20 per
ent Of which Is corn -four were served
With tea and cocoa. Doughnuts and
'astry in which larger per cent Of
orn flour is used were on exhibition
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