Middletown transcript., 1916-12-23
coRNBKiNG

drain on the stores Of wheat there has
been so great that even the supply
necessary for seeding has been drawn
on.
Never was there such demand as
America is being subjected 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 go 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. y
''You are likely to have to consider
this matter of corn before the winter is
over," the grain man remarked signii-
cantly.
He knows.
And why do not Americans consider
this matter of corn? Americans scarcely
know the virtues Of corn. It is time
for them to awaken.
The Indian gave to the world three
things gs-potatoes, tobacco and corn.
The magnitude of corn is instanced best
perhaps by the statement that its 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 a Slight appreciation of its
virtue as 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 produced was one thou
sand 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 food
stuff obtainable to-day.
The South knows corn. To the North
and West it is little known compare
lively.
Again DR.. Barnard tells us three
cents worth of cornmeal contains as
much nutriment as ninety-one cents
worth of eggs at fifty cents dozen, or
fifty-six cents worth of round steak for
which you pay thirty cents pound.
The high cost of living touches every
pocketbook. If 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 scarcity that approaches
famine.
COrnmeal at three cents a pound is
equal in food value to six pounds of po-
tatoes, for which the housekeeper 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 bananas,
eleven pounds of oranges, fourteen
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.
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 work
of economy and Of national good.
To-day, 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 curtailed to the point
of disappearance.
Fat corn bread. Getto know the corn
bread of the South. Have a real south
erner serve corn bread to you once and
the wheaton loaf no longer will have it's
present appeal.
Know the corn pone, if opportunity
offers. Know hominy. Know the grain
Of all grains, corn.