Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-21
Introduction OF Now Foods.

Prior to the civil war. oatmeal, important
as a food in Scotland, was unknown in this
country. During the war it was used as
cruel for convalescents, and its first sale
was from drug stores on physicians pre-
scription. From that beginning, when all
used was imported, 1t has become a staple
food, and we now use more than all the rest
Of the world combined.
Potatoes were introduced into England
300 years ago, but it is only within the
last 100 years that they have been used
in Ireland, where they are now the staple
food.
Within the memory of people now living
tomatoes were grown as an ornamental
plant and their food use unknown.
Within the last eight years Ceylon teas
have been introduced into this country.
where they have to some extent crowded
out the lighter teas formerly admired.
Prof. E. Davenport. professor of agricul-
ture, University Of Illinois, says: We are
often told that corn -four is deficient in
protein, and that the consumer must in
crease his ration or else suffer for nitrogen
with which 10 repair his body. AS a matter
of fact, there is but slight difference in the
amount OF nitrogen as between wheat and
corn, and from the best calculations that
can be made it would seem that a diet Of
clear corn furnishes something like twice
the amount of digestible nitrogen that the
body actually makes use OF. The difference
between the protein Of wheat and that Of
corn is more OF character than OF amount.
Wheat is not the one standard of food that
God made purposely according to a definite
formula as food for His people. 1t is one
of the best food grains and corn is another.
Rise is another, and though it contains less
than half Of the protein of corn. it has
proved an acceptable food to many races"
Rank of the United States.
The following statement, from official
sources, shows the percentage OF the wheat
crop and of the corn crop of the world
grown in the United States:
Wheat-Bush Corn-Rush.
The World .......... $500. O00.O o 10000 Op
United States ...... 100000 10 1000. 90, OE
Per Cent Grown in
United states .... 20 50
Farmers Of Russia, Argentine and Indil
share in any advance in the price OF wheat
Increased food use of corn and consequent
advance in price inures to our use alone
We have the only corn belt on earth.
Europe grows more rye than wheat, Rye
is the staple bread grain OF the masses be.
cause Of its relative ~cheapness.
The new milling processes which remove
the germ OF the corn and then reduce the
balance of the grain to a -four equally a:
finely graduated as wheat -four, make /
possible to blend corn with other fours ii
making bread, With the old style of corn,
meal this is difficult. Today bakers in Chi.
cago, Decatur, Rockford, H.. Cleveland, o.
and other places are turning out a superior
article OF bread OF which corn -four consti.
tutes from 2 to 80 per cent, This bread ::
sold as cereal bread, in loayes the ordinary
size, at a price considerably below the price
OF straight wheat bread. In Chicago full
sized loaves are retailed at two for cents
against 4 and 5 cents for the wheat loaf.
When the European consumer is laugh
that he can get a palatable white bread al
less than the cost II his black rye loaf
larger consumption of both wheat and corr
-four will follow,
Can Corn Products He Exported.
1t is sometimes alleged that We canno
build up a trade in corn products because
they will not bear shipment. No one vii
claim that this applies to canned corn, HON.
my, etc. In the case OF corn -four, by new
milling process the germ Is extracted anC
the -four is then free OF oil and has better
keeping qualities than has wheat -four. l
is the drier OF the two,
This restricts then the charge to the asser
ton that cornmeal cannot be shipped withou
spelling. The best answer is a showing o
what is done each year. The treasury re
ports show that We ship each year cornmea
TO every quarter Of the globe and that IN
trade with each port, IL not gradually in
creasing, is holding its own from year Il
year. Taking the exports Of barrels Of corn
meal in the last ten years and dividing then
into two periods We get the following state
ment, which shows the average annual e.
portstion Of cornmeal in each period an