Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-11-30
A GOOD ADvIcE.


days issues of the German Correspon-
dent we said corn meal could take
the place of wheat flour. Under the
caption Corn is King" the New
York Evening Mail writes:
In the Dakotas it is feared that the
drain on the stores of wheat there
has been SO great that even the sup
ply necessary for seeding has been
drawn on
Never was there such a demand
as America is being subjected TO to-
day Never were the reserve stocks
so low. The bins will be scraped
clean before there is another harvest
OF wheat. The price OF bread may
so to figures beyond the purses OF
the poor.
In New York not long since one or
the great men Of the grain world
met some men from Holland here to
buy wheat.
why don't you buy corn?" asked
the grain man.
The visitors smiled.
You are likely to have TO CON
slider this matter of corn before the
winter is over" the grain man re-
marked significantly.
He knows.
And why do not Americans con
slider this matter of corn? Americans
scarcely know the virtues of corn. It
is time Cor them to awaken.
The Indian gave to the world
three things-potatoos, tobacco and
corn. The magnitude OF corn Is in
stanccd best perhaps by the state
ment that its yield is greater than
that of all other cereals combined.
It is purely American and is one
of the greatest Of foods, and yet
Americans have only slight appre-
citation OF it's virtue as a food.
Corn is cheap, comparatively.
Wheat Is high, very high We haye
much corn. We have little wheat.
We have raised three thousand mil
lion bushels of corn in one crop.
The greatest crop OF wheat we ever
produced was one thousand million
bushels OF the crop OF this year
, our yield Of corn is four and a half
times that of wheat
DR.. Barnard tells us cornmeal at
three cents pound Is equal in value
to two loaves of wheat bread
Based on food value, corn in the
form OF meal or hominy is the
cheapest foodstuff obtainable today.
The South knows corn. TO the
North and West it is little known
comparatively.
Again DR.. Barnard tells us three
cents worth OF cornmoal contains as
much nutriment as ninety-one cents
worth OF eggs at fifty cents dozen,
or lifty-six cents worth Of round
steak for which you pay thirty cents
pound.
The high cost Of living touches
every pocketbook II you would
tighten the strain on your purse
study the virtues Of corn
Today the American housewife
uses ten pounds of wheat -four to one
pound of corn--corn Of which we
have an ample quantity and wheat
Of which there is a scarcity that ap-
proaches famine.
Cornmeal at three cents q pound
Is equal in food value to six pounds
OF potatoes, for which the house
keeper today pays twenty cents
IL IS equal to a pound of cheese,
Tor which she pays twenty-five cents,
thirty cents or more.
1t is equal to six pounds OF ba-
nanas, eleven pounds of oranges,
! fourteen pounds of cabbage
The corn that we cook into corn
cakes, that we eat at hcminy and
mush, costs only one-tenth as much
as some Of our breakfast foods.
Cornmeal and hominy contain
twice as much fat as any other cereal
except oats, and the world knows the
worth of oatmeal
Think Of corn, study corn, talk OF
corn. The result will be to your
benefit and to the benefit Of America.
To increase the use of corn is q
work of economy and OF national
| good
Today, OF all times. this is true.
for what little export trade we had
in corn. which went out principally
in the form Of lard, has been cur
tailed to the point of disappearance.
Eat corn bread Get to know the
corn bread of the south Have q
real southerner serve corn bread to
you once and the wheaton loaf no
longer viii have its present appeal
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