The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-11-02
GRAIN SUPPLY.
. WHAT IT MEANS.

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WHAT It MEANS.
New Ways Of Using The Big Germ
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Scientific American.
The corn carnival Is the feature of
the great valleys of the Central West
when the frost Is On the pumpkin
and the corn is in the shock" bnt
with q crop Of some 300000,000
bushels to harvest there are tired souls
and wearled bodies in the corn belt
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 monetary compensation that dis
heartens and dispirits. Never was
there more propltlous carnlva: season
than tbs present, and Kansas and tho
corn belt are jubiiant. Crops are good
and prices are good. Germ is every
where and everything. One cannot
walk the streets OF a Kansas town to
day without encountering witnesses Of
the States wealth. There are corn
neckties in the show-windows, corn
husk parasols and hats in the possess
ION of fair women pedestrians, corn
stalk canes jauntily swung by prosper
Gus Swains, and corn shoes and dolls
for children every here. The manifold
value of corn for household and per-
sonal adornment has been the feature
of each succeeding carnival, and this
years creations haye totally eclipsed
anything heretofore witnessed.
But while the carnival emphasize.
the ornamental side, there is an uu-
dercurrent of seriousness about this
adoption of corn and its by-products
that more deeply concerns the people
tEan an outsider might imagine. Corn
was never used in SO many different
ing purposes as III the past year Or two.
II we cannot Induce the Europeans to
take our corn for household uses, we
can manufacture it into different
articles of commercial value which
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trend OF thought IN the corn belt, and
new inventions and discoveries an
nually open up new consumptlve mar
kets for corn and its products. Corn is
gradually entering into industries that
seem far removed in every sense from
this product of the fields. The queer
corn shoes, corn hats, dolls, and neck
ties 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
recipes for using corn as an article OF
food which government experts pub
lished ten years ago for the benefit OF
benlghtad Europeans who did not
appreciate this article of food are not
so important in~ Increasing the con-
sumptive demand as some of the recent
which is extracted from the grain, has
an extensive demand IN various trades
where vegetable oils are essential.
Corn oil can be produced more cheaply
than most OF our vegetable oils because
OF the relative abundance of corn, and
In the last year much of the Oil has
been used for table purposes. No at
tempt has been made to substitute for
good olive Oil, but jildlciously mixed it
will pass muster as low grade table
oil. It is also fair luhricating oil !;
but its largest use is ia the trades and
manufactures. Paint mixers employ it
quite generally, and also manafactur-
ers of fiber and shade cloth. It pos
sesses qualities that recommend it par
ticularly to these Industries, and the
demand for it is annually 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 in making glucose
could not formerly be utilized, and
this waste seemed absolute. The new
corn rubber is manufactured from this
apparent waste, and woen mixed with
pure rubber it produces an especially
valuable compound. Improvements in
this rubber substitute are made each
year, and 1t has to certain extent
supplanted Para rubber TOR many pur-
poses. This imitation rubber is from
25 to so per cent. cheaper than pure
rubber, but it has not been sufficiently
perfected entirely TO displace the Para
article. The Oil which is found ia
corn gives pliabl:,ty to the rubber
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