Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-18
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MANY STRANGE USES FOR CORN.
By-Products Not Dreamed of a Few
Years Ago.


People who like to talk in millions
and billions should revel in discussing
the corn crop. Corn was the gift Of
| the New World to the Old. 1t prob
ably originated in Mexico or down
there somewhere. Now it is grown all
over the world and the average annual
crop is about 1000. 100000 bushels. The
United States furnishes two-thirds of
| that total.
Every year some new use is found
| for corn. In the old days there were
| only two ways to dispose OF 1t, to feed
| it to cattle, and i'm the shape of corn
meal, to some people. The meal had
to be for local consumption because
| when made, as it then was, from the
whole kernel it soon became rancid.
Modern machinery removes the germ,
| in which most of the oil is and which
therefore caused the spelling, and that
| has made it possible to keep and to
ship the meal.
Immense quantities of this meal are
| now sold abroad, our exports of it
amounting annually to 100000 barrels
| with a value of $2,5OO,OO0. 1t is mixed
with other kinds of flour and baked
| into very nutritious bread.
From the germ, which is separated
| from the kernel in the milling process,
the oil is extracted by chemical and
mechanical processes and constitutes a
product which is coming into use in
the manufacture of paint; it is also
applied to other purposes. Nearly A.
OOO, 900 gallons of corn oil are produced
| in this country annually, says the
Youths Companion. The oil enters in
to the manufacture of a number of
products containing rubber. The
cheaper grades of rubber tires, hot
water bags, rubber gloves, boots and
so forth are manufactured from mix
ture of the corn oil and rubber.
The vulcaniZed oil is used extensive
| IL in surfacing linoleum and oilcloth,
and is applied to number of other
purposes. After the oil is extracted
there is left valuable rcsiduum
| known as corn oil cake. which is sold
extensively here and abroad. and is
used in the fattening of sheep and 9TH
er animals. Nearly 50,000,00O pounds
nf this material is annually shipped to
Great Britain and Germany. and there
used by thrifty farmers, who find 1t
cheaper than materials of a similar
nature which they can grow at home.
Large quantities of corn, mostly or
the best grades. are made into flour.
starch. grits and flakes. The flour
proper is a form of 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 a very important item Of
manufacture.
In the production Of starch certain
by-products are secured. one of which
is gluten. The gluten, mixed with fl
brous material from the grain, is
ground into meal and sold for feeding
live stock, especially milch COWS.
| Corn flakes are made from grts pre-
vinusly prepared from good white corn
and then salted and sugared. Thcs"
grits are cooked by steam. dried and
rolled into flakes or waters and brown
ed in a special form of oven.
| A corn product which is coming into
extensive use is glucose, made from