The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-12-10
MIN LARGE MEASURE THE
'fO .pospERITY OF THE Ma
TION DEPENDS.
rHf GREATEST Of.OUR CEREALS

Every Nerve and S1neW OF
" NV Country. The Part 1t Has
r ~ in the Development of the
United states.
Everett Spring in Saturday Globe)
- seems odd that the poorer class
= tbe old world, who are unable
Snv wheat and who are forced to
harley or rye instead, should be
,ront of the virtues of corn, or be
s.indiced against it, and thus use
y, only infinitesimal quantity. The
nbabitanys of the American CONT
amt the early immigrants as well as
~ indians, awoke to the merits of
tbis great cereal quickly.
Their provision, which grows in
/. feld. is chiefly Indian corn, which
.oduces a vast increase yearly,
fading two principal harvests, of
.,nicb they make wholesome bread
md good biscu it, which gives a
'+,ong sound and nourishing diet.
NJ indians in Carolina parch the
I'm lnv and then pound it into a pow
Sor Dutting it into a leather bag.
Mn they use it they take little
.nantitv of the powder in the palms
" their hands, mixing it with water,
ND snpping it off. With this they
eli travel several days. In short, it
" grain of general use to man
md beast. many thousands of both
siNds in the West hides having from
# the greater part of their subslst-
once The American physicians OBJ
Sorve that it makes good blood, and
removes and opens oppellations and
imnediments.' This statement, put
irto the spelling of today, is from
. hook named Carolina, or a Descrip-
Inn of the Present State of That
Country." which was printed in Lon
ion in 1882, whose author was Thos.
Ash. The Carolina which is men
toned is, of course, that region which
Was long afterward divided into
North and South Carolina.
These words written over two cent
ures ago are from a book which
not only gives the first accurate plct-
nres of life in England's far southern
coIonies in America, but also furnish
the first reliable account of the viz
nres of Indian corn; and they FUR
rish a suggestion of the consequences
which that cereal was bound to have
nm the future of the country now
known as the United States. Inc
fact that England's colOnistS settled
in a region in which corn production
was possible and that Frances colo
pists, which occupied Canada, were
in a country in which corn could be
grown in only comparatively small
0uantities, had a decisive effect on
thA question as to which of these
races should gain supremacy on TINS
continent. By cutting off the branch"
es of the trees sufficiently to let the
sun reach the soil, and then by GRID
ing the trunks so that the trees would
be in shape to be uprooted in lew
Years, the early settlers of the UNIT
ed States were able to raise enough
corn to supply their wants. Inc
earth was so kind in America, 10
slightly alter Douglass Jerrold's
words. that when tickled with stone
implement in the case of the indian,
or with the primitive spade or noe OF
the early white settler, she laughed
with a harvest. The ease with Whlch
corn was raised here and the aDuha-
ance of the crops fastened the settle-
ment and expansion of the country
by several generations and affected
in a momentous degree the history
of the United States. That Europe
is learning something about the VII
tues of the great American product
is shown by the fact that while corn
exportation was $4,000, 600 bushels
in 1894 and but 2S,00O,OOO bushels
in 1905 it was 100000 in 1917
and 100000 in 1911.
Our Greatest Cereal.
Of all the fruits of the earth and
the blessings Of Providence for whlch
a good American should give thanks
corn ranks first and foremost. 1t Is
the greatest of American crops, the
typical American crop. On corn the
of the United States de-
Ponds in larger measure than II
does upon any other single article.
Corn vitalizes a thousand Industries,
and affects in some degree almost
every nerve and sinew of the com
Ii the corn crop is bad things seem
a hollow mockery to millions; II 1t is
good the heartiest of thanksgiving
festivals are given.
1t may well be so. The corn crop
Of 1911, throughout the United
States, amounted to 1888 480, OOO
bushels. while the corn crop of all
the rest of the word put together ala