The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-05
CORN AND ITS
 BY-PRODUCTS
OIL oNx or THE MOST 1MPoR-
 TANT.
Convsrtsd Into Many Useful Com msrcaal Purposes-starchea and Drsakfast Foods-Corn Ptth in
 1attleship Constructions. Cobs as Fuel.

| 8attle1h1p Const1ucsaoass
 . Cobs as Fuel.
 Charlotte Daily Chronicle.
 There appeared in The Observer seven | weeks ago communication on the By
 Products of Wood Tar, which was | wonderful revelation. Permit me to give to the readers or your paper some of the by-products Of | our common Indian corn. No doubt great many people think that the mii- l Hons of bushels of corn that are rais- | ed every year in the United States are l put to no other use than the making of bread, feeding stock and making Wn's- key. These were the first uses that corn was put to. and the larger part IS con stunned that way today. Corn is beyond any doubt of American origin. It was | first made known to the white man by | the Indians, hence it's name. Indian corn | In 1879, some mounds in Ohio of pre- | historic race were uncovered and in them was found corn in perfect state of pre- servation.
 What a vast difference in the results | of the use of corn made into bread and whiskey!
 The one brings life, health. strength, muscle, brain, hope and happiness 10 | mankind The other brings moral and
 
 blighted intellect and wretched manhood. Speaking of cornbread, there is quite a difference in the modern muffin with vel | low streaks of soda in 1t, baked m the modern cook stove, and the old-fashioned corn-dodger two or thre inches thick that
 our mothers used to bake in the old-tme, | oven on the hearth-rock of the old coun- try fireplace.
 Well does the writer remember the Iu, Nf h ,uhaY ha rp-
 turn from the field or rabbit hunt, tired | and hungry, would zee three large, brown corn pones in he ovea. He would be as anxious for those pones to get on the | table as a spirited impatient horse Is to
 go when you put ;he sadCle on hip. With turnip greens and hog towf those pones would soon disappear when set before six hungry brothers. who would break them open and put fresh. sweet
 butter in them and then wash them down
 with rich sweet milk, cold from the spring house.
 Go away, ye gods that sip the ambrosial
 dew and let the hungry country hoys come forward! Such reco1lections will ever live in the green folds of memory. The different kinds of corn have pedi- grees as much as the different breeds of animals. The chemistry of corn has de- veloped the fact that one can speak and command corn to produce an in-
 crease tof a certain product and 1t will
 obey, or decrease in amount of certain
 element and 1t will do it. One must be
 learned in cornology or understand the
 histological chemistry of corn to do this.
 Take, for instance, corn oil, one of
 the byproducts of corn. To increase the
 percentage of oil. you must plant and cultivate for the purpose of increasing and maturing the kernel of the corn, for the oil is obtained from it.
 I give an extract from Worlds Work, by W. s. Harwood. who is speaking of Profs Hopkins and Shamel, of the Illi nois Agricultural College: "In a word they have recreated corn. They have compelled corn to grow for man or beast or manufacture. They have told the | kernel to produce more protein, the great tissue builder of the race. or they have | told 1t to produce less They have told | 1t to increase its quantity of starch and to decrease it. They have told ti to pro- duce a large and still larger supply of oil. making 1t commercially far more val uable; and they have told 1t to curtail its supply of oil and give some other element more room. They have told the ear to change It's Aorm so that it should
 be longer or sho.'ter or leaner or plump CT. They have told the corn plant to Incl ease in height and to decrease in height and they nave even told 1t that 1t must weave it's leaves on a wider pat
 tern. All these things &nd more have they commanded of corn and in all of
 them 1t has obeyed."
 Oil is one of the most valuable by-pro- ducts of corn and manufactured in large quantities. It is said to be a fact that most of the olive oil consumed in the United States is imported from Spain, France and Italy, where most of the corn oil Is exported from the United States. Corn oil Is used 'n making soaps and in paints, lubricating Cils, rubber, for dressing wool and illuminating purposes. Oilcake is used for stock food after the byproducts have been extracted. Rubber Is made from corn oil by mixing it with pure para rubber. and Is known as vul- canized corn rubber.
 In the Worlds Work W. S. Harwood says: Immense quantities of corn are now manufactured into syrups and starches. In the manufacture of the for mer i've grades are now produced In the manufacturing of this come other by-products in the way of concentrated animal foods made from the protein and geFms which in such an establishment | are deterrent rather than aids. Five kinds of starches are made, and in their | production are developed five grades of | dextrine, five grades of grits or foods in | the breakfast line, together with three l grades of gum for use in adhesive pastes, | or for use in the manufacture of confec- | tionery. |
 Most of our starches are made from | corn. Medicine is now made from the | silk of the corn.
 The pith tcellulose) of the cornstalk compressed and put between the steel | plates of our battleships to stop the flow | of water when a p-ojectile penetrates l the vessel. The pith when wet immedi- | ately swells to about twenty eight times its own bulk
 Paper and various kinds of goods are made from the pith, leaves, husks and stalks of corn. About 1000 900 cases of canned corn are consumed in the United | States each year. Take all the blades on an average size stalk of corn and puf them together and they will make about "A square feet. One acre of corn during it's growth will absorb from the earth about 400 tons of water About Is, GOO O00 bushels of corn each year is made into whiskey.
 Three tons of cobs will make as much heat as ton of coal"
 stalk of corn has been known to | grow as much as five inches in one dav It seems that the magic finger of science industry and capital have wrought from our beautiful Indian corn as many won- .lA Au.I l.