Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1898 — SENDING CORN ABROAD. [ARTICLE]

SENDING CORN ABROAD.

Efforts to Secure the General Opening of European Markets to the Great American Staple. The secretary of agriculture is heartily in favor of further intelligent effort looking to a general opening of European markets to American corn. He is in hopes that congress will provid4 a sufficiently liberal appropriation for the agricultural exhibit at the Paris exposition to warrant an extensive display of corn and its products, including efficient demonstrators and cooks •who will show visitors in a practical and substantial way what good American corn bread, corn dodgers? corn cakes are like. Mr. Wilson does not look for any particularly increased purchases of corn abroad among the poorer classes. It is generally supposed that the laboring man of Europe, when he is ghown the toothsomeness and cheapness of corn, will readily substitute it for the rye. oais or wheat he now eats. These people, says the secretary, make their meals from one article of diet, be it wheat, rye or eats. They live on but one staple. They must have ar article which will supply them sufficient nitrogenous matter to enable them to do a day’s work, and a hard day’s work. This they find in rye, wheat or oats, but not in ct>rn. Corn is fattening and contains a large percentage of carbonaceous matter, but will not replace the tissues wasted by toil to the extent that rye and oats and wheat will. Therefore he looks rather to see corn introduced among the better classes, who can affordtmore than one article on their tables and who will appreciate the sweetness and wholesomeness and variation of a partial corn diet, but who will not be dependent upon it solely for nourishment. Mr. B. W. Snow\ the late assistant statistician of the agricultural department, and now’ active in the maize propaganda, is working late o’ nights for the success of the scheme. It is the hope of the organization after the Paris exposition to continue the work; of advertising American corn in all the large citiescf Europe by practical, free demonstrations of the great variety of wholesome dishes it is possible to prepare from it. —Farm News.