The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-27

The Corn of P1enty-Corn is that food. There's a surplus of it.
 Providence has been generous in the hour of our need It has given us corn in such bounty as was never known before. Tons of corn. Trainloads of corn. Five hundred million bushels over and above our regular needs. All we have to do is to learn to appreci- ate it. Was ever patriotic duty made so easy? And so clear?
 Americas Own Food-Corn! It is the true American food. The Indians hardest of races, lived on it Our fore fathers adopted the diet and conquer ed a continent For 8 great section of our country it has long been the staff of life How well the South fought on it, history tells. Now it can help win world war.
 Learn Something-Corn, It isn't one food It's a dozen. It's cereal. It's vegetable. It's a bread. It's a desert It's nutritious more food value in it. dollar for dallar than meat or eggs Or most other vegetables. It's good to eat; how good you don't know until you've had bread properly cooked. Best of all it's plentiful and it's patriotic.
 The Big Corn Crop is Now Moving. More than 5000 million bushels raised in 1917-gives big surplus. Saves world food situation. This mighty crop raised in 1917-more than thirty bushels for every man, woman and child in America-is now rapidly moving to the market The actual in- crease is about 800 million bushels. This extra store of grain is coming on the market in the nick of time, since the American wheat surplus has been sent to help famine threatened Eur ope.
 Just as it happened in the Colonial days, the War of the Revolution, and the Civil War, corn has actually be- come the nations mainstay.
 In the entire list of Americas S food commodities there is no item that is better than corn. In buildings, bread, corn pone, and as hominy combined with meat or eggs, corn is without a peer, Housewives are fast learning the large number of delicious dishes that may be made with corn and their families are beneftting by an in creased use of the cereal. Corn, more than any other cereal, contains all of the clements essential to maintaining life and health.
 Tn order. that the fighting men abroad and in the army camps at home may fed, and in order that actual
 .-.. may be kept from the nations assoc ted with America in the war, the citizens of America are finding corn products delicious and palatable on 'wheatless days" and glory in the fact that "wheatless days" here mean more wheat for the war worn allied nations of Europe.
 England, France and Italy must be fed from Americas great stofehouse. They will get some consequently Tta1y-but most of their grain ship ments must be wheat. Their ability to use corn is small compared to the facilities they have for using wheat. And it is the opinion of officials in Washington that the present is no time to try and change the eating habits of Europe.
 Americas greatest use of corn will be in the form of corn bread and corn meal, mixed with wheat in the mak ing of leavened bread. Mixed with so percent wheat flour, corn meal can be used in bread making, producing
 loaf more nutritious than bread7baked with wheat alone. It is fact corn miliers will verify that dozens of the
 arge American bakers have been sue cessfully using a corn four in bread making for several years.
 Hominy grits, served at breakfast with q poached egg, or eaten at any other meal with meats or gravy, is another use of corn that will become unusually popular during the war