Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — Even Corn HnXks Are Valuable. [ARTICLE]

Even Corn HnXks Are Valuable.

The fates are combining to make things pleasanter for the Western farmer, the latest discovery of value to him being thut the husks of corn will make excellent paper. Hitherto husks have not had any commercial value and have only been eaten by stock under protest and during hard spells. Now, however, the estublishmentof paper mills in the West should put a stop to the constant shipping of paper from the East, and also convert a waste article into what manufacturers would call a “residuary profit,” such as coke in a gas factory. It is not many years since old rags were looked upon as the only possible raw material for the manufacture of paper, and the course from cast-off shoddy to the covering of corncobs has been both steady and interesting.—[St. Louis Globe. Australia liai 75) acres devote! to hop culture.