CORN 



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CORN 



exported is only one or two per cent of the 

 total, while the corn consumed in towns and 

 cities, except when used in manufacturing, is 

 only two per cent of the total crop. 



Coming Uses for Stalks. Chemists announce 

 that every hundred pounds of cornstalks can 

 be made to produce slightly more than one gal- 

 lon of alcohol. In not harvesting his stalks 

 for such economic use the farmer, where a 

 market is not too distant, allows a great deal 

 of wealth to go to waste. One acre of ground 

 yields ten to twelve tons of stalks, or the 

 equivalent of 1,200 pounds of alcohol, or 200 

 gallons. The wholesale price, by present meth- 

 ods of production, is about forty cents per gal- 

 lon. If all the alcohol possible were derived 

 from the nation's cornstalks the price would 

 drop until it would compete with gasoline as a 



Watty, 10.8 



'roteinJO.O 

 Fat, 4.3 



Carbohydrates,73.4 



COMPOSITION OF DRIED CORN 



fuel. The United States Department of Agri- 

 culture declares that the alcohol so derivable 

 would run all automobiles, trains and steam- 

 boats, would heat and light all houses and 

 illumine the streets of every city. 



It is more than possible that experiments 

 already extending over several years will re- 

 sult in developing a process of manufacturing 

 printing paper from cornstalks. When one con- 

 siders that every time a great Sunday news- 

 paper is now printed a small forest is destroyed 

 to produce the paper, it is evident that the 

 day is not far distant when a substitute for 

 wood must be found to feed the paper mills. 



Food Values. All varieties of corn are very 

 nutritious, richer in albumenoids than any 

 other cereal. A mixture of rye and corn meal 

 makes excellent bread; corn-meal porridge is 

 nourishing; corn-meal biscuit, called locally 

 "johnnycake," is the delight of many families. 



As human diet all preparations of corn 

 flour have high. food value. The composition 

 of corn is nearly twelve per cent water; ten 

 per cent protein; 73.4 per cent carbohydrates, 



with a fuel value of 1,645 calories per pound. 

 Pop corn has a value of 1,875 calories per 

 pound, corn cereals, 1,680 calories, and parched 

 corn has even a higher value, 1,900 calories 

 per pound. The average home-cooked corn 

 biscuit has a value of 1,920 calories per pound. 

 Green corn boiled in the ear possesses little 

 of the food value of the flour preparation, 

 giving only 550 calories per pound (see CAL- 

 ORIE; FOOD). 



Boys' Corn Clubs. The boys' corn-club 

 movement in the United States is an out- 

 growth of the Farmers' Cooperative Demon- 

 stration Work, inaugurated in 1904 under the 

 auspices of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. In recent years the importance 

 of awakening in the boys an interest in farm 

 life and its problems has been widely realized. 



Carbohydrates, 19. 7 



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COMPOSITION OF GREEN CORN 



and this movement originated in the desire to 

 create such a love for rural life that the num- 

 ber of youths who yearly left the country for 

 the cities would be greatly diminished. The 

 work was definitely organized in 1909, and at 

 the present time the enrollment in the clubs 

 of the various corn states is about 55,000. 



The corn-club work is managed by the 

 demonstration workers, the county superintend- 

 ents of public instruction and the rural teach- 

 ers, and the boys follow the directions and in- 

 struction given in the circulars and bulletins 

 sent out by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, under the personal supervision of 

 the demonstration workers. The superintend- 

 ents and teachers organize the school-boys over 

 ten years of age into clubs; the parents fur- 

 nish land, teams and tools; public-spirited citi- 

 zens in the community provide the prizes; and 

 the publicity work is taken care of by the local 

 papers. The boys follow a uniform plan in all 

 their work. 



The general plan is to have each boy culti- 

 vate one acre of corn, thereby becoming a 



