The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-17
BELGIANS EAT CORN
UNITED STATES FURNISHED THEM OVER 15,0OO,OoO
 BUSHELS IN 1900. |
Many Uses It is Put to-other Eu- ropean Countries Buy Over leO,- : GOO, 900 Bushels and Also
 Much Wheat.

Writing from Liege, under date oI Aug'
 F, Alfred A. Winslow, United states oCh- | sul, says: - ..., | irg fo fhs Denartment of Agriculture. | more than three-fourths or the lnoldn- | corn crop of the world, IL Snouio pc
 matter of interest to the millions oi per
 5uct,on to know what becomes of a large
 nortion of it. and to learn of its possi- | bilities. u.a ,o | 76S 213 bushels of corn, Of Wmch z5,oS5, | 27 bushels was taken by Europe; wnIe | In 1900 we exported 2O9. S4S,2I55 5 pushels, oi which Europe took l92, 5l9,1so bushels.
 partly the outgrowth of the corn prop | uganda ina1gurated by Colonel Charies | J. Murphy in 1888. as special commlssioness
 of the Department oi @ ,.od,,,, S,ai SmI
 Belgium from the first showed the | greatest interest in the investigation O, | the value of corn as human food, ana l offered all possible inducements .and even | to this day corn enters belsium free ol duty, while France imposes 10 cents per | bushel thereon and Germany proposes lo | increase its already high duty Belgium | is so densely popuiated-there being more | than 500 persons to the square mile, or | about one to the acre-that 1t IS utterly
 impossible to produce lf w1fnih .he i'S Secessary | food supply. During 1900 there were con
 sumed in this country 2o6sl .17 bushels | of corn, of which the United states 1ur- l nished IL 56l 456 bushels and the Ar8en- l tine Republic 3,792, ,54S bushels. During l the same time 40,591 ,9J5 bushels or wheat were imported, of which the United states l supplied SA7.905 bushels ana the Argen. 1 tine Republic II 396 bushels. when It is understod that no corn IS raised m | this country, while large quantities or l wheat and other cereals are grown, 1t will be seen there is great opening here Of the 1s25l9, 7s5 bushels of corn ex- | ported from the United States to Europe in 1900 1t will be seen that the 6.l50oi inhabitants of Belgium consumed u,56l,- 45; bushels. or about two bushels per | head. against 1S0,95S,329 bushels for the other 36O, ,000,000 inha bitants Of Europe, or only about half bushel per head
 1t will be noted that the United States furnishes Belgium only little more than one-half of the corn consumed. During the lasL five yeas, however, the consump- little more than doubled. while our DOT tion has Increased from 10000 bushels
 in 1898 to Il. .56l. 45S bushels in l9OO This
 speaks volumes for our energy and for recognized as the best.
 The uses to which corn Is put in this country are constantly on the increase.
 Most of the bread consumed by the la
 boring classes contains l5 per cent. to 20 per cent. of cornmeal. One bakery com
 pany tn this city informs me that during
 
 meal in its bread and this Is only one of the Z76 bakeries in Liege: The impor-
 tance of such general use of corn by the bakers will be better understood when 1t is known that more than nine-tenths of the bread consumed in Belgium Is made by tn m. IL is of a very good qual- CTS bread in the United States. One bak- cry in this city makes on an average, 1
 am informed. lo.ooJ ioaves per week of MuFphH hrelad which contains than 25 per cent of white cornmeal, It gets it's name from Colonel Charles J. Murphy.
 late Commissioner of the Department of | Agriculture.
 Corn is also very extensively used by
 tn 5000 brewers and distill rs of this
 country, and with great profit In some
 Is used with the malt In making beer. There are now in op ration in this coun- try eleven extensive mills where cornmeal
 Is ground. One mill at Alost. I am in-
 formed by the proprietors, has a capacity of 17, ,000.000 pounds per year. It is said that all the mills are crowded at present. crop in Europe this year. there should be great effort to extend the corn propa
 ganda, The %'0000. .fO0- bushsl mark for
 Europe should be reached in 1902, and I
 market found for 5000 GOO bushels In this
 intensely industrial country. Belgium at
 present furnishes an exceptionally good
 field, because of the industrial crisis it is
 passing through, which necessitates econ
 omy on the part of the labcring classes.
 Cooking schools should be held in the large manufacturing centersaof the con
 tinent for several mcnths at a time
 where free instructions could be given th'
 woi king classes in the pi eparation of tlis most nutritic us of foods, and where sam
 ples of the cooked article could be freely
 distributed, in order to cultivate a taste for 1t. A large propOI tion of the com
 m 'a people of Europe think corn Is only fit to feed animals, and do not at first
 like the taste Of edibles made of corn meal
 The corn propaganda at the Paris Ex- pOsitic in 1900 did good work, but the
 trouble was it did not reach the masses
 of the people who so much need this nu-
 triticus food. It is the poorly pad "oi
 inc people of Europe that should re
 reached-the people who work for from
 40 cents to 50 cents per day. There are
 millions of this class on the continent,
 and Belgium has mere than it's propor tion, who would cons tune much more corn each year If they were aware Of hs
 value as human food. and were taught
 how to prepare it.