The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-01-18
CORN IS KING

the stores or wheat there has been so great that
even the supply necessary for seeding has been
drawn on.
Never was there such a demand as America
is being subjected to today. Never were the re.
serve 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
purchase 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
The visitor smiled.
You are likely to have to consider this mat.
ter 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 scarcely know the
virtues of corn. 1t is time for them to awaken.
The Indians gave to the world three things
potatoes, tobacco and corn. The magnitude
of corn is instanced best perhaps by the state
ment that it's yield is greater than that of all
other cereals combined.
1t is purely American and is one of the great
est of foods, and yet Americans have only a
slight appreciation of it's 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 thous-
and million bushels of corn in one crop. The
greatest crop of wheat we ever produced was
one thousand million bushels. Of our crop this
year our yield of corn is four and a half times
that of wheat.
DIR. Barnard tells US cornmeal at three cents
a pound is equal i'm value to two loaves of wheat
bread.
Based on food value, corn in the form of
meal or hominy is the cheapest foodstuff obtain
able today.
The South knows corn. To the North and
West it is little known comparatively.
Again DR.. Barnard tells us three cents
worth O. corn meal contain as much nutriment
as ninety one cents worth of eggs at 30 cents a
dozen, or Sc cents of round steak for which you
pay 80 cents a pound.
The high cost of living touches every pocket
book. If you would tighten 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 approach
es a famine.
Corn,neal at three cents a pound is equal in
food value to six pounds of potatoes. for which
the housekeeper today pays ~ cents.
1t is equal to a pound Of cheese, for which
she pays % cents, 80 cents or more.
49, 1t is equal to six pounds of bananas, II
pounds of oranges, IA pounds of cabbage.
The corn that we cook into corn cakes, that
we eat as hominy and mush, costs one-tenth as
much as some of our breakfast foods.
Cornmeal and hon1iny 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 corn
bread of the South. Have "a real southerner
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. New York Evening Mail.
We knew all the time that .Townley could
not stand up under the grueling attacks of the
Omemee Herald and the Souris Messenger and
it is little wonder that he is moving to Mime
sofa. What surprises us is that he does not
move farther away 80 as to get beyond the in.
fluence of these publications.