Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-09-19

cooking of corn-bread and distributing
pamphlets in all languages.
Before the International Congress
of Millers in Paris during the ex-
position, Mr.. Murphy delivered an ex-
haustive address upon the delights of
corn pone, samp, johnny cake, Boston
brown bread, griddle cakes, corn frit-
ters, corn waf1es, succotash, corn pud-
ding and other American delicacies un-
known in Europe. Urging that the
lack of interest in the American food
was due to ignorance, he quoted a dis
tinguished traveller who asserted that
Americans made a palatable food
from corn meal called ''buckwheat
cakes" He established corn kitchens
in various cities in Europe and England
and sold corn bread off the stove at
nominal prices, partly at his own ex-
pense, in an effort to demonstrate to
Europeans that America offered a SUBJ
stitute for the peasants bitter black
bread more deliciously favored than
the white bread of the rich.
He pointed out the ruddy American
mush-and-milk-fed boy, and the har-
dy hog and hominy-eating American
of maturer years as proof of the
healthfulness of corn products. He
declared that if Europe would learn to
eat corn meal millions of the poor
would be benefited, and that the new
market for an American product would
rebuild our merchant marine He also
predicted that when the Panama Canal
was completed America would offer at
the ports of China and India a substi-
tute for rice at half the price of tha.
staple and of twice it's food value. AS
result of Mr.. Murphy's missionary
work corn bread is still called MUIR
ply bread" in some of the European
capitals. =
Twenty years ago we exported only
percent of our corn. We export only
10 percent at present; but the mag
nifcent home demand has put the ce-
real on commercial basis that insures
again the possibility of it's becoming
fuel again, except in the everc of a
serious panic. The bulk of the crop at
present never leaves the counties in
which it is grown. The producers
prefer to convert it into meat, cheese,
butter, milk, or other products. While
America has learned to assimiliate
her corn in large quantities, Austria
Hungary is now the second corn-pro-
ducing country in the world. and her
product is increasing every year, but
the demand increases SO much more
rapidly than the production that the
annual imports increase materially
each year. Northern China, Italy and
parts of Africa are now using large
quantities of corn for food Our heav-
lest exports go to England, Holland,
Germany and Denmark, and a part of
the corn imported into these countries
finds it's way to the tables of the in
habitants.
Corn grows from Siberia to the
South Sea Islands, although the great
est producing section is the Corn Belt
in the United States, the latitude of
which is measured by the northern and
southern boundaries of Illinois AL
most every civilized country is now
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expanded in most of them, but the
United States grows about Is percent |
of the worlds crop, and as it will be
possible, in the opinion Of experts to
expand the American crop to 5000, ,000,- !
700 bushels on the present acreage by |
improved methods of agriculture there |
S no danger that this country will lose
Ter position as the great corn grower,
IF cease to grow the proportion OF
he worlds crop that she now pro-
1uces.
Every state and territory in the I
Union grows corn. The crop means
Millions in profits annually to trans
'ortation companies. It has built
thousands of miles of railroads in
he great west; it built Chicago, and
When the fire almost destroyed that
'lty corn rebuilded it. Aside from it's
lses as food and for. distilling whis-
key. corn is now the basis of a number