The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-18

SEChEIA AM r. ID tbBJhN'
practical demonstration of the value
of corn as food, kitchen having been
opened where bread, crackers and
number of table delicacies are to be
had for the asking.
Mr. Il. d. 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
icas 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 magni-
tude of its product, its money value, its innu-
merable uses and possibilities. or its whole
someness MS q 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 IL
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 val
ne one year with another. of our corn crop has
been nearly double-g9 per cent greater than
that Of our wheat The value Of the corn crop
in this decade has been about the same as the
combined value Of wheat, oats. barley buck
wheat and potatoes produced in the same pc
Rod
In the last three or four years we have heard
much of silver and its Importance, and from
the attention, oratory and printers ink devot-
ed to IL we might suppose that IL was the one
interest before which all others paled and sank
into insignihcance. The average annual
product OF American silver mines, however,
during the three years ended with 1895 was less
than 00l, while the average value OF
American corn for each of the last ten years
has been nearly 1896, 900 00O or more than 1917
times the value OF all our silver, which in the
minds Of so many Is endowed with well nigh
godllke 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
lam proud to come from 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 1t is coming to be, has, In % years
produced corn that in the fields had value Of
more than 1925 600 900 and in the last two years
had an output OF 1913, 00O, 900 bushels These few
simple facts afford ample justification for our
| meeting here to devise ways and means by and
| through which corn shall obtain wider recog-
milton and the appreciation which its merits
| must command | consider II not only great
| DlthSuTt uHu RTtdl uoHOIs Dul u puLIlOllC
duty as well. to be identified with such an
effort, which and the people l represent wish
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
| foods n hrnaA and 10 HON ~ IL
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, 1000, 900 bushels to 1888, 900, 900
bushels. Col Murphys attention was
first 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 me M
bers of the national executive com
mittee, Plans We're mapped out fol
extensive exhibits of corn products al
the Omaha and Buffalo eXpositiont
and at the Paris exposition in 1900
The executive committee will meet in
Omaha next November
AITdHRGIutuln lhu Dtcn Ildut lOl
giving a practical demonstration o
the value of corn as food, kitchen
having been opened where bread
crackers and n number of table deli
cacies We're to be had for the asking
Miss Emma Sckles was in charge ant
Mrs. Auman. of Decatur, presided Owe
the mixing of the dough. Mrs Aumal
is called the lightning biscuitmaSer
She is said to hold the record and turn
out 5000 fresh, crisp biscuits
day when the stove is working salts
factorily. The object of the eXhibi
was to show the merits of corn flour
Biscuits made from -four about 20 pc
cent. of which is corn flour were serve,
with tea and cocoa. Doughnuts an,
pastry in which larger per cent. O
corn flour is used were on exhibition
also. During the afternoon Their
, were some short talks on the merits o
corn flour.