MISCELLANEOUS USES OF COKK 



THOUGH the principal value of maize is due to its 

 nutritive property, and its highest importance lies in 

 the amount and quality of the food it supplies, there 

 are yet other and various economical purposes for 

 which the several parts of it have been found to be 

 well adapted. 



PAPER AND CLOTH. Many attempts have been 

 made, with various success, to use the fibre of corn in 

 the manufacture of paper. This fibre is contained in 

 the husk, stalk, and leaves ; but a larger proportion 

 of it, and perhaps a better quality, is found in the 

 husk. The attempts to produce paper from this fibre 

 have not thus far been very successful in this country, 

 but in Austria a process has been discovered and 

 patented for making a very superior article of corn- 

 fibre paper, of various grades, and of the finest and 

 strongest texture. 



The inventor of this process is Chevalier Auer 

 Yan Welsbach, a native of Austria, and a member of 

 the Imperial Government. His experiments have 

 been conducted for a series of years under the patron- 



