The Winslow mail., 1899-03-04
OUR CORN All PARIS.
Movement to Secure a Good Display
at the Big Fair.
The Project Is to Have the Corn
States Contribute Money to Fur
ther the Sale of the Prod
uct Abroad.

tneF tbS SskS OF me FrOu-
uct Abroad.
The National Business league is 10
join hands with the American Maize
propaganda in an effort 10 make a dis
play of this cereal at the Paris exposi-
ton such as will acquaiEt the worlG
with its value as a food product. The
appropriation by the national govern
ment of $4,000 for display of the ag
ricultural resources of this country
at the exposition will be wholly made
qGate. Il is thought, 10 even attempt
the practical showing which it is felt
corn must have if it is to receive any
benefit from the opportunity which
the exposition offers. For this reason
the secretary of The National Business
league has been instructed to write
every member. of. congress and to the
secretary of agriculture urging a fur
Their appropriation in this direction. 1t
is also proposed 10 ask the states en-
hraced in the corn belt of the country
to make appropriations, and bill APP
propriating $4,000 has already been
introduced in the Illinois legislature.
The .proposton. which originated with
the Maize propaganda, and which ha,
been indor<ed- by the business league.
is, among ether things, to maintain al
the Paris exposition corn kitchen"
where the uses and adaptability of corn
as a food product Will be practically
demonstrated.
= a committee of the Maize propaganda
laid the matter fore Commissioner
Guested that space be set apart in the
American division of the agricultural
department for the corn kitchen" Mr..
Peck agreed with The arguments ad-
vanced by the committee asto the good
results likely to come from a display
of corn products, and agreed to set
apart a space 40X10 feet in the agri-
cultural pavilion for the kitchen.
The question of what help the gov
ernment would give came up for discus
sion, and Mr.. Peck stated that mas
much as only $4,000 had been appro-
priated for the entire agricultural dis
play, it would hardly be possible to de-
vote the sum required for the display
outlined by the committee. 1t was
promised however, to do everything
possible to make an adequate display Of
corn.
The Maize propaganda also has un-
der consideration the erection of a corn
palace at the exposition, and already
elaborate designs have been suggested
in that direction. Just what will be
done in this particular depends upon
the amount of money available, but it
is the belief Of the officers of the prop
aganda that it. will be constructed.
The propaganda has just issued a
short address on this subject, which it
terms "a Practical Plan to Teach the
World to Eat Corn" and which appeals
especially to the corn states for help.
1t says, after reciting the inadequacy
of the national government appropria-
ton and the duty Of the corn states:
"Money so spent will return a. hun
dredfold in the advance in the price of
their greatest product. If the six great
corn states would devote one-tenth OF
enc per cent. of the annual value of
their present corn crop for a single
year to the effort to find foreign mar
ket for our surplus product it would
De returned an hundredfold in the in
creased taxable value Of their farm
lands"
Ii is estimated that $250,C00 could be
easily raised in this way, and it is sug-
gested that the governors of each of the
states of Illinois. Ohio, Indiana. Iowa.
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska appoint
a commission of three members, which
Will form joint corn belt commission,
which should proceed at once to formu-
, late plans fer the Paris exposition.
after which educational work should be
carried on in northern Europe, China,
Japan, the Philippines, and in every
country where the food problem is
pressing for solution.
"Such a commission, properly organ
ized," continues the address, land hav-
ing mode~nte funds for economical ad-
ministration will do more to establish
permanent prosperity for American ag-
riculture than any legislation, state or
national, that can be devised.
After calling attention to the excel
lent results which have been accom-
plished through well-directed efforts
to place corn abroad and the increase
in exports f. )m G0,00O, 900 bushels per
annum TO more than 150,000,000 bush
els he cddress says;
Create foreign demand large
emo gh to absorb all of our surplus
above requirements, and the American
farmer will have 40-cent corn. One
cent a bushel added TO the prb of a
normal corn crop would mean $20,000,-
0CO added to the annual income of
American corn growers. On the basis
of recent production it would mean ST.
300, ,O0O added to the annual income of
the farmers of Indiana, $2,000,0O0 to
those of Illinois, So, 2,750,O00 to those of
Iowa, 81, 500, 600 to those of Missouri,
S1750OOO TO those of Kansas, and
81 .600,0 900 to those of Nebraska
Ore cent a bushel means $10,900,-
coo added to the yearly incomes of
the farmers of six states
Evening News.
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