The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-12-01
CORN is KING.

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Cdrain 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 demand as
America is being subjected to today
Never was the reserve stocks so low
The bins will be scraped clean before
there is another harvest of wheat
The price Of bread may 60 to figures
beyond the purses of the poor.
In New York not long since one OF
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 consider
this matter of corn before the winter
is over" the grain man remarked
significantly.
| He knows.
And why do not Americans consider
this matter Of corn? Americans scar
cely know the virtues of corn. It is
time for them to awaken.
The Indian gave to the world three
things-potatoes, tobacco and corn.
The magnitude of corn is instanced
best perhaps by the statement that
it's yield is greater than that of all
other cereals combined.
1t is purely American and is one
of the greatest Of foods, and yet
Americans have only slight appre-
citation of its virtue as a food.
Corn is cheap, comparatively. Wheat
is high, very high. We have much
corn. We have little wheat. We
have raised three thousand million
bushels of corn in one crop. The
greatest crop of wheat we ever pro-
duced 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 corn meal at
three cents a 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 cheap
est 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 corn meal contains as
much nutriment as ninety-one cents
worth of eggs at fifty cents a dozen,
or fifty-siX cents worth of round
steak for which you pay thirty cents
a pound.
The high cost of living touches ev-
cry pocketbook. If you would light
en- the strain on your purse study the
virtues of corn.
Today the American housewife uses
ten pounds of wheat flour 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
Corn meal at three cents a pound
is equal in food value to six pounds
of potatoes for which the house
keeper today pays twenty cents.
1t is equal to a pound of cheese
for which she pays twenty-five cents,
thirty cents or more.
1t is equal to six pounds of banan-
as, eleven pounds of oranges, four
teen pounds of cabbage.
The corn that we cook into corn
cakes. that We eat as hominy and
mush, costs only one-tenth as much
as some of our breakfast foods.
Corn meal 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 a
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