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times more valuable per pound than corn itself. Consequently, stock 

 feeders want more protein in corn. (Very possibly the feeders in the 

 southern states want more carbohydrates to supplement their present 

 more abundant supplies of nitrogenous food stuffs.) 



The price of corn starch varies from two or three cents to five or 

 even lo cents per pound, depending upon the wholesale or retail nature 

 of the sale. The manufacturers of starch and of glucose sugar, glucose 

 syrup, and other products made from starch want more starch in corn. 

 In its own publication a large commercial concern, which uses enor- 

 nious quantities of corn, makes the following statements: 



"A bushel of ordinary corn, w^eighing 56 pounds, contains about 

 4^ pounds of germ, 36 pounds of dry starch, 7 pounds of gluten, and 

 five pounds of bran or hull, the balance in weight being made up of 

 water, soluble matter, etc. The value of the germ lies in the fact that 

 it contains over 40 per cent of corn oil, worth, say 5 cents per pound, 

 while the starch is worth 1^2 cents, the gluten i cent, and the hull about 

 J/j cent per pound. 



"It can readily be seen that a variety of corn containing, say one 

 pound more oil per bushel would be in large demand. 



"Farmers throughout the country do well to communicate with their 

 respective agricultural experiment stations and secure their co-operation 

 along these lines." 



These are statements and suggestions which should, and do, attract 

 the attention of experiment station men. They are made by the Glucose 

 Sugar Refining Company of Chicago, a company which purchases and 

 uses, in its six factories, about fifty million bushels of corn annually. 

 According to these statements, if the oil of corn could be increased one 

 -pound per bushel, the actual value of the corn for glucose factories would 

 be increased 5 cents per bushel ; and the president of the Glucose Sugar 

 Refining Company has personally assured the writer that his company 

 would be glad to pay a higher price for high oil corn whenever it can be 

 furnished in large quantities. The increase of five cents per bushel on 

 fifty million bushels would add $2,500,000 to the value of the corn pur- 

 chased by this one company each year. The glucose factories are now 

 extracting the oil from all the corn they use and arc unable to supply 

 the market demand for corn oil. On the other hand, to these manufac- 

 turers, protein is a cheap by-product and consequently they want less 

 jtrotein in corn. 



Corn with a lower oil content is desired as a food for bacon hogs, 

 especially for our export trade, very extensive and thorough investi- 

 gations conducted in Germany and Canada having proved conclusively 

 that ordinary corn contains too much oil for the production of the hard, 



