The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-02

pose, and has given notice OF large fu-
ture requirements. Our own govern
ment has recently ordered 10000 barrels,
and further orders will follow. Hence
forth smokeess powder will be exclu-
sively used in civilized warfare, and in
the manufacture of this powder distilled
spirits play a prominent part, thus open
ing new and quite extensive market
for American corn!
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The number of articles of commerce
that are now being made from corn has
reached twenty mine, 9nd every particle
of the grain is at present turned into
some useful product. The glucose su-
gar refining companies alone manufac-
ture this number OF products and the
number of bushels of corn consumed by
thei- factories in the United States
reaches well into the millions. The fol-
lowing is a list of the products now be-
Ing manufactured from corn without the
use OF any other component material:
Mixing glucose, of three kinds, used
by retners of table syrups, brewers,
leather manufacturers, jelly makers,
fruit preservers and apothecaries.
Crystal glucose, of four kinds, used by
manufacturing copfectioners.
Grape sugar, of two kinds, used by
brewers principally, and also by tanners.
Anlydrous sugar, used by ale and beer
brewers and apothecaries.
Pearl starch, used by cotton and paper
mills.
Powdered starch, used principally by
baking powder manufacturers. and also
by cotton and paper mills.
Refined grits, used In the place OF
brewers grits; they are giving better
| results.
Flourine, Used by mixers OF flour with
Lon lAt, tN hn COL
that a corn product Is taking the place
Of wheat product.
Four kinds of dextrine, used by fine
fabric makers, paper box makers, muci-
iage and glue makers, apothecaries and
many Industries requiring strong adj
hesive agent.
Corn oil, used by. table oil mixers, lu-
bricating oil mixers, manufacturers OF
fibre, shade cloth manufacturers, paint
| manufacturers, and in many similar in
dustTies where vegetable oils are en-
| ployed.
Corn oil cake, gluten feed, chop feed,
and gluten meal; ali cattle-feeding stuffs
| of a very high grade and capable OF be-
| ing scientifically fed with superior ad-
vantages.
Rubber substitute, q substitute for
crude rubber and very extensively used.
Corn germ, the material from which
| the oil and cake are obtained.
British gum, a starch which makes a
| very adhesive medium, and is used by
| textile mills for running their colors, as
! well as by manufacturers who require a
very strong adhesive medium that con
| tains no trace of acid.
Granulated gum, which completes with
gum arabic, is used successfully in Its
place, and finds a ready preference by
| reason of the absence of any offensive
odor.
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! Probably the most important in the
above list of products is rubber substi.
| tute, the substance which Chicago chem
| lists have recently brought to perfection
| This new rubber. made from the waste
! of ordinary yellow corn, will cheaper the
price of rubber goods % per cent. Corr
| rubber must be combined with an equa
| quantity of Para rubber to give it gen
| eral utility. Twenty chemists have beer
employed at the Chicago refinery for q
| year in bringing this new rubber to per
| fection. The greatest difficulty has
| been to make a product that would resist
heat. At last the chemists have devel
oped a quality of corn rubber that will
| bend. stretch. and show all the resiliency
Of the best Para, which is the standard
| of commerce. In the manufacture ct
| glucose part of the corn, about 5 pei
| cent, could not be utilized. This waste
Is what will be transformed into the new
| substitute for rubber. Corn rubber has
| almost the same appearance as the ordi.
nary reddsh-brown india rubber. Oil OF
corn, from which principally the rubber
is made, does not oxidze readily. Its
| tendency toward oxidation is one Of tht
principal defects of india rubber. Th.
| chemists who have been working on the
| corn rubber declare this to be an enor
nous advantage for the new product
Articles manufactured from it will al
ways remain pliable and not crack. II
| is calculated that corn rubber can bC
| sold at 6 cents n pound. 1t can be adapt
| ed TO nearly all the uses to which ordi
nary rubber is put from bicycle tires t.
| linoleum.