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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-17

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September II. 1917
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-17
AGRICULTU RAL DEPARTMENT

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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-17
The Weather
FURNISHED by U. 8. Weather Burenu]
Forecast. Virginia

Forecasts Virginia
Fair Nj o n d a y,
warmer Int riOr,
south portion, Tues
day fair, warmer.
Ort h Carolina
Local ruins Monday,
Tuesday fair, warm
er interior.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

i, half the value of all our farm animals, and to more than that of all the manu- factures we exported last year.
 Looking upon our corn fields as one great gold mne, we shall get out of them in a single year more than l6 times have taken from Alaska since we bought that country of the Russians. We shall get 40 times as much as all the gold mined in the United States within the past i2 months and thrice as much as all the gold taken out Of South Africa since the precious metal was discovered at Johannesburg many years ago. The total is more than eight times as great as all the gold and silver product of the whole earth in any one year since the world began. Moreover. we shall h1ve just as much from the same mine next year, and for every year during ths ages to come. This good mine reneWs itself. Like the widows cruse it is always full and it will feed the United States to the end of time.
 And now look again at the magnitude of the crop and consider the mighty mass of foodstuffs of which it is made. X single grain of corn planted in the earth often yields moro than thousand fold I have raised many an ear on my farm in Virginia which had more than 300 kernels on the cob. and I have had two or three ears on a single stalk The volume of the corn crop is beyond comprehension. To say that it meas ures more than 3.20o. 000000 bushels of shelled corn gives no idea of it's i'm mensity. To see what the figures mean, let us load the corn upon wagons. We shall put 40 bushels, or more than ton, iu each wagon. Such a load would be enough for two horses. We shall start the procession eastward, putting the noses of the horses at the trailboards of the wagons in front of them, allottins to each team 40 feet on the roadway How far away do you think the first wagon would be when the last wagon was moving. Suppose We start at the Mississippi river, would it be in Pitts burg on the other side of Ohio? No In Boston on the coast of the Atlantic? No Suppose we could bridge the ocean would it be where our Army Is fighting in France? No. The caravan would reach far beyond that. It would extend on and on across Russia. It would reach over Siberia, across the Pacific ocean and come back to the Mississippi val ley where it started. Even then the
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possible to introduce it except as a mix ture with wheat or rye flour, and the best solution of the probleM will be for us to eat the corn at home and ship our wheat and wheat flour to Europe.
 Indeed, there Is no reason why corn Should not take the place of wheat in every American family. As it is now we are using barrel of wheat flour per mead every year. A barrel of wheat flour means five bushels of wheat, and at that estimate the total amount of whea taken to feed US is s0o0Oo0o0 bushels per annum. Suppose we should exchange that wheat for corn, the amount of corn consumed will be less than one-siXth of cur crop, and we would have a half bil- lion bushels more wheat to feed our allies n Europe Suppose we cut down our wheat flour consumption four-fifths, We can send 4oO,000.000 bushels across the water and this would largely supply the food demands of our allies. There is no better way in which every family in the United States can do it's bit than in changing its bread diet from wheat te corn In one shape or another x
 IF the early history of this country we had practically no wheat to speak or. We learned from the Indians how to raise corn, and our colonial ancestors were brought up on it. For decades after the United States became a nation tho chief cereal of the people consisted of ground maize and hominy, and the food was such that 1t made them the strongest oe men. The health of the United States would be equally good to- day if corn meal should take the place of wheat flour.
 I have before me a number of esti- mates as to the value of corn as a food stuff. They show that it equals, and, as far as the price is concerned, Is su- perior to almost any other The late Surgeon General Billings, who had to figure on the food of our army esti- mated corn meal and wheat flour as of the production of heat and potential en- ergy. pr. Harvey Wiley, when he was chief chemist of the department of ag rculture. gave a report saying that corn was about as dgestibe as wheat, and that It was a most excellent food as fat producer, muscle producer, bone producer and blood producer. The National Association of White Corn Aiilers has recently shown that white corn flour can be mixed with wheat flour in the proportion of 15 per cent in the making of all bread and cakes, and that such a mixture would save S200,- oo,eD year in the food bill of the country This mixture has the ap- proval of the national government in- cluding the council of na ational defense.
 The bureau of chemistry of the de- partment of agriculture has been ex- perimenting for the past four years in the making of bread containing mix lures of other Hours with wheat flour. It is said that their experiments show that 25 per cent of white corn flour can be mixed with whe>< flour and the result will be a letter bread from every standpoint. It is claimed that the corn flour contains more food value than the wheat flour. The fol- lowing is comparative analysis of the two:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

doing all he could to teach the Kaiser how to use the cereal for his army.
 Few of you will remember Corn Meal Murphy" He was the chief apos . tic sent by the United States to Eu- rope to preach tho value of corn as q foodstuff Colonel Murphy realized the great value of the corn crop and he wanted the United States to export 1t instead of wheat. Nc was sent to France by the state or Nebraska, and later on received comNlission froia Congress to go from capital to capital and preach corn meal, corn flour, corn cakes and corn bread as human food. At that time corn was selling for something like 20 cents per hushel in some parts of the west and it had fall- en so low that there were places along the Missouri river where the peop1 3 burned it sin their stoves, finding it cheaper than coal.
 Colonel Murphy gave lectures before the National Agricultural Society of France. He preached corn in Russia, and he very much interested the Kaiser, who had shortly before come 10 the throne, and was already schen1- ing as to how he could conquer the world
 met Colonel Murphy during my stay
  day he sent delicious pound cake mode of corn meal to my hotel, and ] also tasted the mixture of rye and corn meal which was being made into a bread for the soldiers. Colonel Murphy told me that the government chemists and bakers were testing the flour, and that they had produced a bread made of one-third corn and tvo-t thirds rye which was a success. This bread tasted about the same as rye bread, and some of the German soldiers were fed eight days upon it before they realized that they were eating anything else than a bread of pure rye After they learned that the bread contained corn they objected. but not before. This bread was also tested in the prisons, where the German scientists figured out it's strength producing powers in compari- son with rye.
 All the grain used at that time was ground in the mills of the imperial government and the bread was made under the eyes of the government of ficials. Colonel Murphy told me that 1t was much more digestible than rye bread, and he believed then that it would be eventually adopted as a food :. stuff over Germany. He said that the chief trouble he had in introducing corn flour was the fact that the Ger mans did their baking only once a week and that the corn flour would not keep that long on account of tho oil in it. He solved this problem by cutting out the germ at the end of the grain of corn by a degerminating
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

train would have hardly begun, and not ne-tweutieth of the crop would vet have been loaded. The train of wagons would reach more than 000000 miles, sufficient to make a line of teams, POO abreast, all the way from Philadelphia to San Francisco It would fill 200 Lin coin highways with solid corn. If we could bridge the skies and start the crop toward the moon we should have a double row of teams each carrying ton of sheled corn reaching from the earth to that dead planet and 150,500 miles beyond. If we could load it on cars at 1000 bushels to the car the train would girdle the globe at the equator with many miles to spare
 And this mass consists entirely of food stuffs, the most nutritious, the mos, heating and most energy producing ot any known to man. The crop is big enough. if it were divided equally among us, to support the life of the whole na tion and leave some to spare. It would give g bushels to every man, woman and child in our country, or enough to supply every ono of our families with three bushels of meal every week for the whole year to come.
 Tn actual quantity corn is the greatest food crop of the world. This year it will exceed the wheat crop, which comes from
 
 be of enormous value in the, war stua- ton. vast amount of it will be fed at home and q caravan of ships will carry another portion abroad in the shape or meat and corn meal to be used to make war bread of one kind or another,
 Indeed, the value of the corn crop as war asset could be greatly increased, if more were used in the shape of corn meal instead of being manufactured into meat on the farms. As it is now one- fourth of our corn is consumed by horses and mules. another fourth is eaten by hogs and several hundred million bush els are fed to the cows. A vast amount goes to make beef and something like 60, 100000 bushels are annually consumed by our sheep. It is the high price of corn that makes the high price of meat, and I might say also the high prices of other foods which could be replaced by our eating corn meal.
 We might grind the corn and ship it to Europe, but the people there have no idea of it's value, with the exception, per- haps. as a stock food The prejudice against 1t is such that it would be m-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
Omaha, Neb.

Omaha. Neb an7 7E F who would sup with the OO Ik devil must have a Iona
 lCl spooni"
 In the great fight for the food of today the devil is the kaiser and Uncle sam has one of the chief seats at the table. He has a score of spoons on each side his plate, and some of them are exceedingly long. In my letters about the great American industries have shown how many of them surpass those of the Kaiser, and the spoon write of today is the longest of all. refer to the corn crop, It is vital factor in our fight with the Germans In the ->-ape of grain, flour, money and meat. it is filling our banks, our warehouses and the ships which are crossing the ocean loaded with food for our allies in Europe. There is nothing like 1t on the face of the globe It is the greatest crop of all time and all nations, and upon it today are founded our hopes for tne fu- ture.
 Have you any idea what the corn grown in the United States this year will amount to? l have before me the latest estimates of the agricultural de partment, From it's stattsuctans, scat tered throughout every corn raising sec tlon of the union, 1t has figured up the possibilities. It estimates the amount at just about 3,200, 00000 bushels, and you cannot buy 8 bushel of it anywhere for less than $1,4o The average price No vember 1 was HAS per bushei. The total value of the crop is more than $4,000, ,o0o,- GOO If it were turned into gold eagles, worth $2o each, there would be 200.0O00o0 of them so many that if the Wandering Jew, who is supposed to live forever, had sat down before a pile of such gold pieces 100 years before the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock and counted a gold piece to the minute, from then until now, he would still be on the job.
 The sum is so great that before the war began it would have paid our pub lie debt four times over. It is so great that 1t will pay the interest on any debt we are likely to incur. At per cent it would equal the dividends on more than $50 00o, ,000,o00. The crop this year is equal in value to all the money we had in cir culatien in l91s It is equal to more than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

machine This he found made the corn flour as free from oil as rye flour and fitted it for making the finest of white bread and for all sorts of cakes. Dur ing my stay in Berlin some of the bakers were using such corn meal for cake making, advertising the product as made of wheat flour.
 The German government was also exnerinenting on corn as a food for the cavalry horses. At that time the army horse was considered more inn portant than now, and the Kaiser had concocted a condensed horse food fer the cavalry on the march. am not sure how much corn meal thls con tained but it was a concentrated mix ture which had so much nutrlment that a. man could carry in his pocket sufficient number of balls made of 1t to feed d horse for q week, and to enable it to march that long without other food. All such foods were kept secret and the same is true of the foods used in Germany today. In 1870 the army which invaded France was supplied with 8. pea sausage which formed first class food and of which the rest of Europe had not learned prior to that time.
 It was Colonel Mufpny lued to make cornmeal as common in Europe as wheat four and rye flour are now He wanted to get that market for the corn crop, and the same market is open today If the millions of Europe could be taught to eat cornmeal 1t would add greatly to the value of American corn, and the crop would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year more than 1t Is now. Colonel Murphy had prepared recipe book showing several hundred ways in which corn could be used as human food in place of wheat and rye, and with these he demonstrated the value of the cereal to the people of Europe He gave me copy of the book, which now lies before me. It has directions for making hundred or more dishsa of cornmeal. The recipes are from different parts of the union. Many are from New England and many from the south, which today is the chief corn eating section of the country. The southern recipes include hoe cakes ash cakes corn pones and dodgers. One recipe is headed "Towa Waff1es" another 'Illinois Corn Muffins" and q third, Georgia Corn Dodgers" There are also many recipes for corn bread, corn buildings and cake of various kinds used as desserts. Some of the recipes require only water, salt and cornmeal, and some take more or less fats or other ingredients.
 The national department of agricul-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

ture has recently published cook book as to the use of corn and corn meal. This probably contains some of Colonel Murphy's recipes, and 1t has many others showing the various ways in which our housewives can make ap petiztng bread. cake, buildings and oth CT dishes without the use of flour. The book should be in the hand of every family, and it will be a material aid to such as wish to help the nation in the saving of wheat at this impor tant time in our history. The cook book is for general distribution, and a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture should bring one to you The title is Farmers Bulletin No. 565"
 Copyright, 1917, by Frank c. Carpen-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
BINGHAM ESTATE
 WILL PAY S2,000,000
 TAX IN KENTUCKY
This Amount Is Said to Be Sufficient to Pay Off Entire Debt of
 the State

Louisville, Ky. December 15.-Coleetion by the state of ekntucl1y, without contest, of approximately s2,0o00oo in in- heritance taxes on the estate of the late Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham was indi cated by announcement this week that an inventory of the entire estate would be filed with the state taxing authori- ties. The announcement was made by officers of a Louisville trust company, administrators of the estate, with will annexed. It was taken to mean the heirs would not resist imposition of the tax.
 Mrs. Bingham, who formerly was Mrs. Henry M Flagler of New York, left an estate estimated at sS0,O0o.0o0. She died at her home in Louisville last July with In less than a year after her marriage to Mir. Bingham.
 Announcement last September that relatives had caused her body to he ex- humed at Wilmington, N. C.. with q view of more definitely determining the cause of her death, created widespread inter- est. The result of the ensuing chemical analysis of some of her vital organs nev- CT was announced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
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 From this 1t will be seen that the two Hours are about the same in pro- teins and carbohydrates. The corn flour exceeds :n fat and it has also more 1ysine. q substance which is fla vora ble to bodily growth. What is true of corn flour Is also true of corn meal, and the latter Is much cheaper than wheat flour. A pound os corn meal, re- tailing at 5 cents. has the same food value as 10 cents worth of wheat flours 10 cents worth of rice, 50 cents worth of potatoes. 70 cents worth of eggs and 80 cents worth of beefsteak These are facts, the results of analy- ses.
 If the Germans had our corn crop there would be no possibility of con quering them by starvation. The Kaiser has eXperimented in the use of corn and the German scientists know all about its food values. It is now 20 years since they began to mix corn meal with rye flour as a war bread and they have thoroughly tested the cereal as 3 food for the people and army. I base this statement on my investigations during the great fam inc in Russia. It was in 1892 that I travelled over the hungry districts of the Russian empire. going thence ta Berlin to write letters as to the food situation there. I found that the Ger mans were experimenting on corn as food and that the work was going on under Corn Meal Murphy" who was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

All the cold storage warehouses in the London district are filled to capacity with foodstuffs, and have announced to deal- CTS and shippers that they cannot accept any further custom. This is having marked effect on the markets, forcing down prices and bringing incoming sup plies onto the counters.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-22
BUILDING PLAN
READY in WEEK
Congress May be Asked to
Appropriate Billion Dol
lars for Ships.

washington, Aug. 22.-Estimates
included In the present request the
shipping board will make for a billion
dollar appropriation to complete Its
eighteen months building program
were gone over today at a conference
between Chairman Hurley, OF the
board and Secretary McAdoo. The. re-
quest will 30 to congress probably this
week.
The board needs $500, 100000 for
construction Of fabricated steel ships,
|$250,000,000 to carry our commandment
ing Of vessels now building in private
yards, and another $~250,060,o00 for
contracts for steel and wooden ships
to be let oon The communicating
program will cost In all about $685.
900, 900, but $780, 00, 900 of the origs
inal 100000, 900 appropriation will
be used for that purpose.
Contracts for building Fabricated
ships will be let within q few days.
PIanstfor taking. a large amount OF
tonnage Out, Of the great lakes for At
lantic service also will be completed
by the shipping board soon. 1t liz esti-
mated that between 5000 and 400
900 tons q be removed before the
winter season sets In. A
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-22
LEGAL NOTICE
NoTIoE 70 Build srDEWAIFs,

" o04AO SAO6W AxA6 =
council of the city of Grand Forks,
North Dakota adopted Augusts6 6, 1917,
notice Is hereby, given to each owner
after described to rebuild and construct
sidewalks in accordance with the re-
quirements of the ordinances governing
Sidewalks Of the city Of Grand Forks,
ject to the approval Of the street com
missioner, within 20 days after the first
publication Of this notice, in front Of and
the real property as hereinafter
Sidewalks condemned and ordered re-
built are as follows: t4t
On the South side Of Third Avenue, IN
front OF Lots 3 and 4. in Block 81. 3. &
On the South side Of Third Avenue in
front of Lots 8 to 10 inclusive in Block
SO, B.& p. Addition.
front Of Lots ~sSi ! and and = e ana nde + 2 S Ia insln IN
sive, In. Block IA, and Lots IL and T.,
Block 16, Holes Central Addition.
All Or the above sidewalks shall be
and must be six feet (e)s in width. and
shall be constructed under the dfrectfon
n supervision Of the city engineer.
Each OF said owners and occupants Of
take notice that in the event Of his fail.
ure or neglect to construct and rebuild
the aforesaid sidewalks AUDITING tns
properly owned or occupied by him with.
In the time above mentioned, the same
VIII pc rebuilt and constructed unde
the direction Of the city Of Grand Forks
and e special assessment will be levied
against said property to pay for the
B Ry order Of the city council.
1s.n LA. DINNIE.
Attsss.olw = Mayor
City Auditor.
(Aug. 1922. 1919
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-22
SUNDAY GAME
PROMISES TO !.
TIME
Elks Refuse to Give Out
Line-up-Big Surprise
is in Store.

DO. -t- fLE- .h#
Indications promise that the ball
game staged for Sunday afternoon be-
tween the Elks and U. CT. teams for
the benefit of. the Machine Gun fand
NJ company funds will be one of the
most interesting and holly contested
games ever staged on the local ball
park. - st
The Elks' team is shrouded with
mystery and they are evidently plan
ming q surprise Of some sort for the
u. c. 2. team. eff we gave out the
lineup now" said the manager. at
would spoil the game. You wouldn't
be able to see. the travelling men FOR
dust. They've been playing together
all summer, but we're ready fortthem.
They'll take several very big surprises
Sunday, j III.
Entire proceeds Of the game will be
given to the company funds that are
being accumulated for the soldier boys
to take to their mobilization camp, 70
supply necessities which the govern
ment cannot furnish. In addition to
this the concessionaire will give all
his net profits to the funds. /,
There will be one admission price
for all, giving the holder admittance
to the grand stand, bleechers, fence or
standing room. u