The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1917-03-08
CORN is KING; BUY 1T
TO OFFSET HIGH PRICES
Corn in Form of Meal or HOminy Is
Cheapest FoOdstuff known to the
World Today, Says Grain Man.

essay on corn that is interesting. In
cidentally, this friend stated that 500
people in Des Moines had pledged
themselves to eat no flour bread until
it is cheaper. The article is as follows:
an the Dakotas it is feared that the
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 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, who
were here to buy wheat. Their deal
ings are interestingly told by a writer
in the New York Evening Mail.
"'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 sig
nifcantly.
He knows.
"And why do not Americans con-
slider this matter of corn? Americans
scarcely know the virtues of corn. 1t
is time for them to awaken.
'The Indian gave to the world three
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.
ut is purely American and is one of
the greatest of foods, and yet Ameri-
cans have onlya slight appreciation 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 bush
els. Of the crop of this year, our
yield of corn is four and half times
that of wheat.
cdr. Barnard tells us cornmeal at 8
cents pound is equal in value to two
loaves of wheat bread.
BIASED on food value, corn in the
form of meal or homlny 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 8 cents
worth of cornmeal contains as much
nutriment as 81 cents worth of eggs
at Sc cents dozen, or Sc cents worth
of round steak for which you pay 80
cents pound.
"The high cost of living touches
every pocketbook. If you would light
en- the strain on your purse, study the
virtues Of corn.
To-day the American housewife
uses 10 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 approaches
famine.
"Cornmeal at 8 cents a pound is
equal in food value to six pounds of
potatoes, for which the housekeeper
today pays 20 cents.
1T is equal to a pound of cheese,
for which she pays 25 cents, 80 cents
or more.
ut is equal to six pounds of ba-
nanas, l pound of oranges, IA 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.
"Conmeal 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 bene-
fit and to the benefit of America.
ITO increase the use of corn is a
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.
Eat corn bread. Get to know the
corn bread of the South. Have a real
Southerner serve corn bread to you
once and the wheaton loaf no longer
viii have its present appeal.
Know the corn pone, if opportunity
offers KNOW bnpnvnv Krox.y +ha