264 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



VALUE OF THE CROP. 



The price of corn varies from year to year and through the year. For 1902 the 

 average monthly price of corn on the Chicago market was 59 15-16 cents per 

 bushel P"'or the year 1897 it was 25% cents per bushel. 



In January, 1902, the wholesale price of corn reached 88 cents in Chicago, while 

 in February of 1897 the price went as low as 20 cents or less per bushel. 



Question G. With the price of corn M cents per bushel, what would be the 

 I alue of the crop of corn of 1902? 



Question 7. Dividing the value of the crop among the 80,000,000 people of the 

 United States, hoxo much xoould each man, looman and child receive? 



USES OF CORN, 



The uses to which the crop is put may be roughly outlined thus: 



1. Human Food, 



Meal, 



Special forms. 



Flour, 



Hominy, 



Grits, 



Flakes, etc. 



2. Stock Food, 



Grain — Whole or ground, 



Ensilage, 



Fodder, 



Whole crop — green, 



Manufactured by-products. 



3. Manufactured, 



Starch and resulting products, 

 Distilled and resulting products, 

 Corn stalks, 



(a) Pith, 



For naval use. 



For manufacture of smokeless powder. 

 For manufacture of high grade varnish, 

 For manufacture of paper. 



(b) Woody portions. 



Food for stock, 

 Paper of low grade. 



Wherever corn is grown it is used as a more or less important factor in the diet 

 <if the people. 



In Mexico it constitutes the chief and indeed almost the only grain diet of the 

 people. 



The same may be said of the diet of the peasantry of Roumania and some other 

 < ountries of Europe. 



It constitutes the chief grain diet in certain sections of our own country while 

 in all sections it is highly esteemed and takes a more or less important place in 

 the dietary of the people. 



The United States exports annually not far from two hundred million bushels 

 of corn, England, Holland and Denmark being the largest buyers in the order 

 named. 



Of that remaining at home, 



Perhaps forty million bushels are used annually by the stai'ch and glucose fac- 

 tories and 



Seventeen million bushels are used in the manufacture of distilled liquors. 



Question 8. How many bushels of the crop of 1902 are left on the above basis 

 for home consumptio7i, for animal food, human food, and for seed? 



It Is impossible to say how much of the crop is used for human food. In 1900* 



*U. S. cen.sus report of 1900 



