The Washington herald., 1921-11-21
HUGE CORN CROP
MEANS INCREASED
SUPPLY OF MEAT
World Grain Resources
Little Below Nor
NAL.
EVEN WITH RUSSIA
U. s. Yield Three-F ourths of
Total, Says National
City's Record.
EVEN WITH RUSSIA

PROMISE OF q corn crop OF D loz,-
000, 900 bushels in the United States
alone, coupled with recent favorable
reports on world wheat and rice
crops, suggests, says the Trade Rec
ord of the National City Bank of
New York, that the worlds supply
of bread and meat will be little be-
low normal, despite the shortage in
the wheat fields of Russia. A
5000, 600. 000-bushel corn crop In the
United States means probably 4,000,-
900 900 bushels for the entire world,
for the United States usually pro-
duces three-fourths Of the worlds
corn outturn.
And this big corns crop with US
means in turn an unusually big
meat supply. especially of pork. for
large part of the corn of the
United States is fed to swine on the
farms where it is grown. and the
meat thus produced distributed to
all parts Of the world in far greater
values than that of the corn in the
natural state. With the changed
conditions of production and trans
portation in Europe resulting from
the war. the demand of the world
upon the United States for bread
and meat has continued down to the
present time. and the promise of
an abnormally large corn crop in
dicates that we shall be able to re-
spond to the world demand for meat
as well as breadstuffs.
Already in the nine months OF the
current year for which figures are
now available We have exported
more corn than in any full year
since 1906, while the quantity 60
ing in the form Of pork products in
the current year is 20 per cent
greater than in the same months of
1920, though the value is probably
less by reason of the reduction in
prices. Even at the reduced prices
OF wheat and corn the exports of
pork products chiefly produced from
corn will be nearly $500. 900, 900 in
value, and the corn exported in the
natural state approximately $780,
00o, 900. The value of the pork
products exported from the United
States in the past decade exceeds
$4,000, 100000 and of corn in the nat
ural state about s400. 700. 900. The
wide distribution of our corn in the
form of pork is illustrated by the
fact that the exports OF bacon in
1920 went to ninety different coun-
tries and colonies, hams to eighty
five. lard to eighty Eight and sau-
sage to eighty-thre countries and
colonies. >,
The tremendousness of our corn
crop-three-fou of that of the
world-accounts, adds the banks
statement, for the fat that we have
far more swine than any other
country, for swine are the most
convenient process of Transforming
corn into human food, especially for
expectation, and corn is the most
useful food for swine, except for
the production of the bacon hog"
which is chiefly fed on the smaller
grains-wheat, rye, barley, etc,
with an admixture of dairy prod
ucts-and as consequence the
bacon hog" producing areas are
those lying north of the corn belt
of the world, but producing ample
supplies Of the smaller grains above
named. g This close relation of the
number of swine to the supply of
corn as their best food for fatten-
ing purposes has resulted in a
growth in corn production, and as
a consequence the United States
alone has about one-half of the
swine of the world. while it pro-
duces about three-fourths of the
corn of the world.
1t is only in very recent years
that our corn crop has crossed the
100000, 000-bushel line or that of
the worlds crop output the 4,000,-
600, 000-bushel mark. The world
was slow in adopting this new food
grain which Columbus carried back
from Haiti under the native name
of 'mahiz" on his first return voy-
age but 1t gradually spread through
Southern Europe, where it was des-
ignated as maize" in recognition
of its Haitian title, above named.
and after its introduction in South
ern Europe extended slowly over
the other continents. At present
the corn crop of the world is nor
mally: United States, 100000, 900
bushels; Europe as a whole, $780,
100000; Argentina. 100000. 900; Asia
as a whole, 100000, and Africa,
about 100000 The corn crop of
the United States has been stated
as holding first rank in the value of
our farm outturn, hay ranking sec
end, cotton third and wheat fourth.