The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-12-03

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and is used in the fattening Of snee,
and other animals. Nearly $4,000, 00l
pounds Of this material are annually
shipped to Great Britain and Ger,
many, and there used by tliriftS
farmers, who fnd It cheaper thar
materials Of similar nature which
they con grow at home
Flour, Starch, Grits and Flakes.
Largo quantities of corn. mostly OF
the best grades, are made into -four,
starch. grits and flakes. The -four
proper is form or starch prepared
by washing the ground grain with
weak alkali solutions. thus removing
nearly everything except the pure
starch grains. BY mechanical and
chemical processes the starch, which
forms more than half the corn grain,
| Is separated from the other parts Of
the grain. and constitutes very inn
portant item of manufacture.
In the production of starch certain
by products are secured one of which
is gluten. This gluten mixed with
fibrous material from the grain, Is
ground into meal and sold for feed
ing live stock. especially mich COWS.
Corn fakes are made from grits pre-
viously prepared from good white
corn, and then sailed and sugared
There grits are cooked by steam
dried and rolled into flakes or wa
fers, and Drowned in a special form
of oven
2oo,ooo,ooo Pounds of Glucose Elk.
ported.
A corn product which is coming
into extensive use is glucose, made
from starch, water and sulphuric acid
Confectioners use large quantities Of
glucose, which is a coIorless, sweet
ish syrup useful as food when prop
erly taken. Nearly 200.000,O0O pounds
of glucose are sent out of this coun-
try each year TO all parts of the
world
From corn starch also comes dex-
trim of several kinds, used extensively
in making of glue, paste. and mucil-
age. When one ticks a postage stamp
one gets a taste of dextrin, favored
often with some harmless preserva-
tive.
There are many other special prod
ucts made from the grain of corn,
either directly in indirectly-so many,
in fact, that it would not be practice
BILE even to attempt to enumerate
them.
corn-pith Protects 5attIeships.
Some of our largest battleships are
now protected with a belt of corn
pith cellulose. largely made from corn
grown in the Ohio valley. The same
material, or modified forms of it. are
used in the manufacture Of high explo-
sives. such as guncotton and smoke
less powder.
Large quantities of ground grain
and cobs are now used for feeding.
The cob is also ground and mixed with
various highly concentrated foods,
such cottonseed meal, and sold for
stock food. Large quantities Of cobs
Furthermore, are utilized in certain
parts of the Mississippi valley in the
manufacture OF corncob pipes.
Other Kinds Of Corn.
An interesting and useful phase of
corn growing occurs in connection
with the production Of sugar corn, or
sweet corn. for home use as roasting
ears and for canning. Hardly a gar
den in the country is complete with
out it's patch of sweet corn for table
use and in the states of New York,
Maine and Illinois, especially, large
areas are planted exclusively for can
ming purposes. 1t is the common
practice of the factories to make con-
tracts with farmers for the corn to be
delivered, and as the ears are gathered
early, the farmer has fine and useful
forage left for feeding to the live
stock.
OF the popcorns there are twenty
FIVE or thirty different kinds grown In
all parts of the country, but in com :
mercial way largely in three or four
northern states. principally Michigan,
wisconsin and Iowa. Immense quaint
ties of popcorn are used by CONNECTION
ers, 800 or 400 carloads being shipped
each year from a single point in some |
Of the states mentioned.
Influences of the Corn Crop.
In closing it is proper to say a few
words regarding the far-reaching in
1uences which the production Of such |
IN enormous crop as corn has on many |
lines OF business, especially transpor-
Lation, both on land and water A /
large proportion of the crop is fed to |
hogs and cattle, and these find their |
way to the great packing houses,
where they are killed and the products |
-herefrom shipped throughout the
world.
The greater portion of the crop,
in the principal corn grow
ng states leaves the farm In the shape
If the raw product or the grain itself
"a very bad practice, agriculturally
speaking, because it means the send
ng away from the land OF immense
Quantities of fertility which are never
out back. Our best corn lands, there
ore, are being depleted and in the
lot far distant future new methods
If growing and handling the crop must
De inaugurated If we are to maintain
'ur supremacy as feeders of the world.
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