The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
INDIAN CORN IS
KING OF THE SOIL
Many Products Made From
This Cereal
PRICE CHECK MANUFACTURE
Maize, on Account of Its Cheapness,
Has Entered Into Great Variety
of Products-Mix With
Cane Syrup.
PRICE CHECK MANUFACTURE


has been identified with humanity as a
food product and has accompanied NAN
and civilization. hand in hand, to the
present time.
Probably commodity ever held sucn
place of Importance so continuously as
corn, and today, a part failure Of the
crop in the six states known as the
Corn States sends a tremor throughout
the civilized world. for its use Is no
longer confined to food for man and
beast, but it forms the basis of many
manufactured staples of CO mmerce.
1t is estimated that there Is now being
consumed in the manufacture of corn
syrup, corn sugar and starches about BE-
600 bushels annually, of which LOCO, 900
are made into starch. The manufacture
of these products has grown to these
proportions through a former low price
as compared with present prices The
increase of 80 per cent in 1908, however
has had a tendency to check the ad-
vancement made along manufacturing
lines.
Corn May Not Be Lower.
Whether 1t remains checked cannot now
be foretold, but the present indications
do not hold any encouragement for the
belief that corn Will ever be less. The
high price of corn has curtailed to some
extent the amount of corn syrup used by
confectioners and syrup mixers. The
starch business of the country has been
decreased on account of the importation
Of sage and the so-called powdered tapi-
oca flour.
Sage has supplanted corn starch be-
cause 1t sells for less. 1t completes with
corn starch with dextrine manufactu
for sizing the cotton mills and with the
ca1eip1ina mamma rf,irars TIA DiOca ig used
for making envelope and other gums and
also supplants starch with the mill trade.
1t was not until after the civil war
that experiments were started In the
United States to make syrup from corn
starch the cheapest source of starch In
this country. These experiments We're
successful and the products called grape
sugar and corn syrup were made from
potato starch
The industry grew rapidly until. in 1884,
the Importation of potato syrup and po-
tato sugar or grape sugar, fell off to a
very small amount and the expectation of
corn products assumed large proportions.
Since that time 1t has grown until 1t Is
now one of the most important indus
tries.
Syrup Requires 100000 Bushels.
In 1907 there were used in the manufac-
ture of starch and glucose 100000 bush
els OF corn, worth more IMAM @1V,VVv,VVV'
The corn exported was S3.000.O00 bushels.
This means that this industry has paid
the farmer for about half as much corn
as has been exported. The corn sold from
the farm is called cash corn and of this
about Is per cent is consumed by the
starch and glusoce manufacturers.
The following is a comparison of the
total products of the starch and glucose
industry and their values as compared to
some other agricultural industries.
Lbs Value.
Total corn products =. .os1 900 s41, 221. 900
Beet sugar in U. S. :. se7. 22S,Oo0 23,s95 ,S17
Cane sugar in u. S. :. 514,320,0 900 2S,004,6 $50
Tobacco 80 - -. So, 223 264 IS, AIS, $50
This shows how enormously has been
developed the industry and how strong
a hold it has ON the manufacturing COM
munity.
But this hold on the manufacture can
not be judged intellgently until some ade-
quate conception is given of the things
that these corn products form part.
Chemistry has found many new fields OF
usefulness for corn products and they
now constitute a long array of commodi-
ties Here is the complete list:
The list of starches is made up of pearl,
powdered corn, maizena,, laundry, lump,
crystal. thin boiling for confectionery,
thin boiling for laundries, pressed lump,
grlts, soluble and amlldex-
More Uses for Corn.
They are used In the following lines of
business: In laundries, for food-jellies
and buildings; for candies-gum drops.
lozenges; for balsing-pie filters, pastes
and sauces, sizes for stiffening and finish
ing warp and cop yarns and fabrics in
textile industries; in paper manufacture
ing as a filler and f1nisher for cosmetics
and asbestos; in brewing beer and ale,
and by alcoholic manufacturers.
Doctrines are made In the following
grades. known to the trade as white. spe-
cial, canary, special dark canary British
and American gum.
They are used in the following lines of
business: In the textile industry they are
used In sizes Tor strengthening the fiber
and finishing the fabric; for cloth. carpet
Irvine, etc, for thickening colors for cali
co and other printing; sizes, leather
dressings, pastes; for food sauces. gums
and CLUES; ink, mucilage. and American
gum, which is used In the place of gum
arabic, and successfully.
Corn syrups are made in nine grades
for human consumption and manufac-
turing uses The use into which they en-
ter constitute the greater variety or
things. The complete list is as follows;
For mixing with cane syrup and mo-
lasses in the preparation of mixed syrups
for confectionery, baking, In syrups, jams,
jellies and preserves. For the manufac-
ture of vinegar, brewing of beers, In the
manufacturing of chewing tobacco. food
sauces. canning of meats, pastes and
sizes, tanning Of leather, backing, print
ers' rollers. shoe polishes. for finishing
molds in iron foundries, in extracts such
as logwood, etc, and in silvering glass
mirrors.
Sugar From Corn.
Only six different grades Of sugars are
made from corn, and their uses are cor
respondingly limited. They are as fol-
lows In the manufacture of caramel, or
sugar coloring. In the manufacture OF
Tactic acid for tanning. In the manufac-
ture of beers ales, porters, etc., and vim
| egar.
| The grades of corn oil now In use are
six, not including paragot, which Is a
rubber substitute made from the Oil corn
used in the manufacture of rubber goods
| by mixing with pure Para rubber. INC
| wearing quality OF the mixture Is IN nc
wise impaired and the article is less ia
F., BILE to crack or rot from heat when
mixed with this substitute. 1t Is very
| valuable discovery that has every char-
acteristic of rubber except the stretcn.
| The uses of corn oil are the manu-
facture of soap, soft soap and soap pow
| ders oil cloth and leather, paragon OF
| rubber substitute, for edible purposes