The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-23
USES FOR THE BIG CORN CROP.

5 IOuullltS.
 USES FOR THE BIG CORN CROP
 Over a Hundred Articles of Food Be
 sides Rubber, oil and Glucose.
 The corn carnival is the feature O
 the great valleys of the central west
 when the frost is on the pumpkin ant
 the corn is in the shock" but with {
 crop of some three hundred million
 bushels to harvest there are tired souls
 and Wearied bodies in the corn bel
 these fine autumn days The promise
 of wealth and abundance of this worlds
 goods brings consolation and joy; 1t is
 the prolonged labor without the none
 tary compensation that disheartens and
 dispiritS Never was there a more pro-
 pitious corn carnival season that the
 present, and Kansas and the corn belt
 are jubilant. Crops are good and prices
 are good. Corn is everywhere and eve-
 rythng. One cannot walk the streets
 of Kansas town to-day without en-
 countering witness of the states
 wealth. There are corn neckties in the
 show windows, corn-husllN parasols and
 hats in the procession of fair women | pCoSbllldllS, CO1DSldIh CdH6S swung by prosperous swains, and corn shoes and dolls for children everywhere. l The manifold value of corn for house. hold and personal adornment has been ! the feature of each succeeding carnival, and this years creations have totally eclipsed anything heretofore witnessed.
 But while the carnival emphasizes the ornamental side, there is an undercur- rent of seriousness about this adapta- ton of corn and It's by-products that more deeply concerns the people than an outsider might imagine Corn was never used in so many different ways for commercial and manufacturing pur- poses as in the past year or two. If we cannot induce the Europeans to take our corn for household uses, we can manufacture it into different articles of commercial vaule which they must take. This seems to be the trend of thought in the corn belt, and new i'm ventions and discoveries annually open up new consumptive markets for corn and it's products Corn is gradually en- tering into industries that seem far re- moved in every sense from this product of the fields The queer corn shoes, corn hats, dolls and neckties which were made and exhibited for celebrating the corn carnival stand In sharp contrast with the corn oil, corn cakes and corn rubber.
 The one hundred and twenty odd rec ipes for using corn as an article of food, which government experts published ten years ago for the benefit of benight- ed Europeans who did not appreciate this article of food are not so impor- tant in increasing the consumptive de- mand as some of the recent discoveries Corn oil, for instance, which is extract ed from the grain, has an extensive de- mand in various trades where vegeta- ble oils are essential. Corn oil can be produced more cheaply than most of our vegetable oils because of the rela- tive abundance of corn, and in the last year much of the oil has been used for table purposes. No attempt has been made to substitute for good olive oil but, judiciously mixed, it will pass mus ter as low grade table oil. It is also fair lubricating oil; but its largest use is in the trades and manufactures Paint mixers employ it quite generally and also manufacturers of fiber and shade cloth. It possesses qualities that recommend it particularly to these in- dustries and the de mand for it is an- nually increasing.
 Corn rubber is new article which is substituted for pure rubber in certain lines of goods. This cheap substitute is mixed with equal parts of pure Para rubber. The corn part of the substitute is taken from the refuse of the glucose factory. About five per cent, of the corn used in making glusose could not formerly be utilized, and this waste seemed absolute, The new corn rubber Is manufactured from this apparent waste, and when mixed with pure rub Der it produces an especially valuable Improvements in this rub Der substitute are made each year, and | 1t has to a certain extent supplanted | Para rubber for many purposes This ! imitation rubber Is from twenty-five to |, fifty per cent cheaper than pure rub | Der, but it has not been sufficiently per | fected entirely to dispace the Para ar ticle The oil which is found in corn | gives a plability to the rubber com pound that prevents it from cracking
 
 rubber do. Moreover the oil of corn tends to prevent the rubber from oxidi- sing, fault common to most india rub per.
 There are five refineries of corn oil in he United States which use between en and twenty million bushels of corn md corn waste. Besides the output of ,il, the refineries have made nearly hirty other different products from the 'orn. But in spite of all these various products about five per cent. was prac- ically waste until the discovery of the ubber substitute was made. The spir- ts distilled from corn constitute anoth- r large industry, and recently the em- 'loyment of the spirits in the manufac- ure of new grades of smokeIess pow Ter has greatly increased the demand or corn. The British government has een liberal buyer of the spirits for his purpose and the Japanese govern- nent has quite recently placed an or CT for several thousand barrels for the anne purpose. An extensive European ,ar would consequently send the price f corn "booming," because of it's gene al need for food and because it would e in demand for the manufacture of lrge quantities of smokeless powder The distillng companies are not only lcreasing in number, but the output