The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-12-06
.VARIED. ARE USES OF CORN
USEFUL COMMODITIES THAT ARE
MANUFACTURED FROM IT.
Once Thought to Be Only Good For
Live Stock Is Now Used For
Most Every Purpose.
More things perhaps are made and

Most Every Purpose.
More things perhaps are made and
! used from corn than from any other
grain raised in the United States.
From the oil it contains are manu-
! featured toilet soaps, tooth paste,
] soap powder, oilcloths, leather and
many different varieties of paints
and YaTnishes.
At one time corn was fed only to
| live stock as the grain was looked
upon as being too coarse for human
/ consumption. But this opinion grad
ually Iessened when the hoe cake
| came into use in the south. Corn is
now used all over the United States
for food consumption in some man
ner.
Wonderful Transformation.
Scientists have discovered just how
to divide the oil from the starch in
corn and utilize both. A grain of
corn is soaked in water until it sWells
to three times it's normal size. Then
the grains are ground into a fine
-four. The water in which the corn
has been soaked is drawn off and the
gluten that it has absorbed is used in
the manufacture of syrups and jel-
lies.
The corn is again soaked after the
grinding and the oils rise to the sur
face and the starches and sugars
sink. The residium is dried and oil
and oil cake are made from them.
Many people who walk upon rub
Der heels do not know that corn has
anything to do with their makeup.
1t is the corn oils that are used in
the making of rubber tires, boots,
rainCoats, near-leather and oilcloths.
This oil is put through vulcanizing
process which converts it into a rub
Der substitute. Many thousand
pounds of insulating cloth and mate
rails are made from this corn oil. In
its raw state it is the basis for scores
of soaps, pastes, cooking oils and 9TH
er everyday necessities.
Syrups and Sugars.
Syrups and sugars are obtained by
a process known as hydrolizing the
starch. This simply means the chem
ical decomposition of the starch and
the formation of new compounds
when the starch is absorbed by wa
ter. A subsequent refining and evap-
Grating process is necessary for the
production of the corn syrups and
sugars. The dextrines, otherwise
the. gummy compounds formed by
the action of heat on starch, are pro-
duced from the corn starch by a pro-
cess of roasting.
How Starches Are Used.
The starches have a multitude of
uses. They are employed for foods,
such as jellies and buildings, baking
powder, pastes, sauces, candies, gum
drops, lozenges. for brewing beers
and ales, for stiffening and finishing
yarns and fabrics in textile indus
tries, in paper manufacture as a fill
er and finisher, for cosmetics, asbes-
tos, soaps and adhesives and in the
manufacture of coal briquettes.
The dextrines are the elements
that are used in furnishing the Amer
lean homes. Carpets, cloth hang
tngs, Irvine and other accessories can
be made from them Some calico
dresses were once part of ears of
corn. 1t is the dextrine part Of fire.
works that are safe and sane.
Many valuable uses have been
found for corn syrup. Among 9th
ers may be mentioned the confec-
tionery uses, such as for baking,
syrups, jams, jellies, preserves,
mincemeat and other desserts; brew
ing of beer, flavoring chewing tobac-
co, food sauces, canning of meats,
pastes and sizes, tanning Of leather,
backing, printers rollers, shoe pol
ishes, for finishing molds and cores
in iron foundries, in extracts, such as
logwood, in silvering glass for mir
rors and in liquid soaps, hair tonics,
sponges, coffee and rice polishing.
Corn sugar is used in the manufact-
ure of caramel and sugar coloring,
in yinegars and in the manufacture
Of Tactic acid for tanning and for fill
ing leather.