The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-08-21
rpSlTILE KING CORN;
|, WASHINGTON EXHIBIT.
.oooucTs ALMOST AS NUMEROUS
,uosE OF THE COTTON PLANT.
!, ae Depended Upon for Food, Cloth
i,o Strong Drink and Many Ar
ticIes of Luxury.

nersons probably imagine that
wv tbe only products OF corn are
o 9nio w. meal and whisky, =, That is
'lI ,om being the truth. The prod
-" - the corn plant are almost as
Gu y. and varied as those of the
'ln', Giant An exhibit in the agri-
FoI'O1 danartment, in Washington,
wv ,batin case of necessity corn
lO ~ ho depended upon for food, cloth
01- md strong drink, and a number OF
.;oIes of virtu oand luxury besides
4 ' Zionist of the department has gone
t tar as to produce from corn a sub
.,~,o for rubber which cannot be told
.' on expert person from the genuine
o. o." It. looks like rubber from
'l s;1 foels like it. acts like itand has
D,a .ho Characteristic properties of it.
az f,r the invention has not eenmade
Commercially practical, that Is
''' nocoss costs too much to make the
'D' nobbcr a competitor OF the rub
", # is to be expected, however,
p'.. nnbber for tires will be grown in
GU tnntbor article of especial interest
tho agricultural departments eX-
siait Is corn oil. This is likely to
49,. ,, more or less into competition
'y .IE cotton seed oil of the higher
", ,5os The corn oil is said to be pre-
:,alc like olive oil, to taste like It,
md to be good for any use in which
1.-Two oil is employed. Only the most
rnort can distinguish corn oil from
,be HIGHEST grade Of Italian OLIVE oil.
nj. nroduct has been turned to com
n,r.iaI account, and already large
Quantities of the oil are sold
There are some pretty and lustrouS
,bongb not very strong cloths from
a,, fibre shown. There are hats,
A,.,ots ETC., made of the fibre. No
c,as store. however, is set upon the
no,.Hlities of the fibre in this line.
q 0redhe greatest possibilities is in
heMe of paper making. a mer-
cbaDable quality of paper has been
made from it. and experiments with it
are being continued. The pith OF the
corn stalk is being used in large guam
titles in making cellulose for packing
the sides of warships. These are
lust few of the products of the corn
p1ant. One of the officials or the ag-
rcultural department is authority for
the statement that, all told, there are
not far from one hundred products to
be had from corn.
It will interest farmers to know that
the department is conducting lnYestl-
cations and experiments with a view
to LARGELY increasing, if not actally
doubling, the production of corn, with
out any increase in expense OF cuItl-
walton or Of acreage. 1t is hoped this
can be accomplished by q system OF
selection and cross breeding. The
selection of corn for planting is said 10
be a most important matter. Proba-
bly, 500 farmers out of every 1000 make
their selections of ears after the corn
is in the barn. This is said to be
wrong. The selection should be made
in the field. the health, vigor and
strength of the stalk being taken into
account. BY carefully selecting the
seed corn from the stalks in autumn a
increased yield, 1T is sad,
may be secured, while by cross-breed-
ing the best specimens the nitrogen
contents of the corn VIII De
The department has no"
produced several thousand hybrlds"
Within the next year or two 1t hopes
to evolve corn which, with proper
cultivation and fertilization, will pro-
luce 100 bushels to the acre on lana
that now brings forty to fifty bushels