DAIRY MEIETING. lOI 



region and what is now Illinois (1697) found large quantities 

 of stored corn in a village of the Illinois Indians and took about 

 40 bushels with him. Columbus in reporting his discoveries 

 to Ferdinand and Isabella speaks of fields of corn some 18 miles 

 long. Indian corn is adapted to few other countries than our 

 own, and while many attempts have been made by other nations 

 to raise this crop, America still holds supremacy. While the 

 region in which corn is principally produced has shifted from 

 the eastern states to the central, yet it is a crop which is still 

 and even better adapted to New England than it formerly was. 



USES OF CORN. 



The uses of corn besides those commonly known are diver- 

 sified. It enters into the commercial life of the time more than 

 any other of the farm crops. 



The grain of corn affords wonderful possibilities. "There 

 are thirty odd products made from it, as follows : Six kinds 

 of mixing glucose, used by refiners of table syrups, brewers, 

 leather manufacturers, jelly makers, fruit preservers, and 

 apothecaries ; four kinds of crystal glucose, used by manu- 

 facturing confectioners ; two kinds of grape sugar, used by 

 brewers principally and tanners ; anhydrous sugar, used by ale 

 and beer brewers and apothecaries ; pearl starch, used by cot- 

 ton and paper mills ; powdered starch, used by baking powder 

 manufacturers, cotton and paper mills ; refined grits, used by 

 brewers instead of brewers' grits ; florine, used by flour mixers, 

 without detriment ; four kinds of dextrine, used by fine fabric, 

 paper-box, mucilage and glue manufacturers, apothecaries and 

 many others requiring a strong adhesive agent; corn oil, used 

 by table oil mixers, lubricating oil mixers, manufacturers of 

 fiber, shade cloth, paint and similar industries where vegetable 

 oils are employed ; corn oil-cake, used in gluten feed, chop feed 

 and gluten meal for cattle feeding purposes ; rubber substitute, 

 used in the place of crude rubber, and extensively used ; corn 

 germs, from which oil and cake are obtained ; British gum, a 

 starch which makes a very adhesive medium, used by textile 

 mills for running colors, as well as by textile manufacturers 

 who require a very strong adhesive medium that contains no 

 trace of acid ; granulated gum, which competes with gum 



