The Semi-weekly leader., 1921-12-07
A HOME MARKET FOR
MISSISSIPPI CORN
Home Demonstrator Urges Use
of Home Grown Meal in
Mississippi.

While Mississipipans are worrying
because their large corn crop cannot
be sold TO an advantage, they are at
the same time bringing into the state
more thanA million dollars worth Of
corn meal, and thousands of dollars
worth of canned hominy, to say moth
ing of grits and other corn products,
from northern and western states,
Two reasons are given for this
poor business management: First, it
is being stated that southern corn
meal is not wholesome, and is not
properly made; second, that home
grown corn bread causes pellagra.
Neither of these statements are
true. Corn meal made from Missis-
sippi corn has a higher food value
than the imported meal, because the
imported meal had had extracted
fIom it the corn oil which is sold for
salad and cooking oil. Practically
every community does have or can
have an inexpensive grist mill which
nay be run in connection with saw
mill, cotton gin, or motor driven
farm machinery. 1t is very little
trouble to sift out the chaff and thus
have fresh, smooth corn meal that
makes perfectly wholesome, palata-
BILE bread at little expense. The
nearness Of the grist mill makes it
possible to have meal ground fre-
Quently and thus avoid having stale
or mouldy meal.
Corn bread does not cause pella-
gra, neither does our cane syrup or
sorghum. When corn bread is eaten
with vegetables from the home gar
den, and eggs and milk, there is no
danger of pellagra. 1t is when corn
bread, fat meat, and sorghum are
eaten in too great quantities and
without these other foods to form a
balanced ration that pellagra may
appear.
1t is the lack of balance in the
food that causes the trouble. Corn
bread never gave anyone pellagra.
If every. family in Mississippi will
use homegrown meal and make a !
supply of lye hominy for the winter
it will wipe out any surplus corn we
have In our state which can be used
to build better homes in Mississippi. !
The following bulletins give re-
cipes for great variety of ways of
using corn meal and hominy. They
may be obtained free from your
county home demonstration agent, by
writing to Mississippi A. & M. Col
lege, or to the U. S. Department Of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Farmers Bulletin No $50, Use of
Corn and Cow Peas in the Home.
Farmers Bulletin No. 249, Cereal
Breakfast Foods.
Farmers Bulletin No. 565, Corn
Meal as a Food and Ways of Using
1t.
Farmers Bulletin No. 29s, Food
Value of Corn and Corn Products.
Corn meal mush with milk makes
an excellent breakfast food or sup
per dish.
Corn meal suffle, corn meal gems,
egg bread, polenta, Indian Pudding,
and cracking bread are delicious
dinner dishes for a cold day.
Baked hominy with home grown
ham Clipped fine is fine.
Hominy baked with cheese and a.
little milk until brown is delicious.
Search your cook books and maga-
zines for new ways to cook corn
meal and hominy. See that your
pantry shelf is supplied with the
home grown articles. Send for the
bulletins If you need them. Let's
market the surplus corn crop to the
very best advantage by using it at
home and have our money to spend
for convenience, comfort, and beauty
into our homes.
The money sent out of Mississippi
for corn meal each year would en-
ploy county home demonstration
agent in every county at an adequate
salary several times over.-Susie v.
Powell