282 INDIAN CORN. 



gallons of the syrup, and the quality is by good judges 

 pronounced excellent. 



DISTILLATION. This cereal has also, like some 

 other of the best gifts of the Deity, been perverted to 

 base and injurious uses. In Ohio and some other 

 parts of the West it is employed in the manufacture 

 of high wines and whiskey. While man is endowed 

 with a twofold nature of good and evil, it is hardly 

 perhaps to be expected that all the beneficent gifts of 

 Providence will be exclusively appropriated to their 

 highest and most valued purposes. But though the 

 amount of corn consumed by the distiller appears 

 large in the abstract, it is yet relatively small, and 

 dwindles to comparative insignificance when viewed 

 in connection with the vast quantities absorbed by 

 other and better uses. 



OIL. The vegetable oil contained in the grain of 

 Indian corn is capable of separation by chemical 

 means, and when thus extracted is more or less useful 

 in various ways. For illuminating purposes it has 

 been tried in some of the light-houses on the Western 

 lakes, and found available. It is doubtful, however, 

 whether the proportion of oil yielded by corn (sixteen 

 gallons to one hundred bushels of grain), taken in con- 

 nection with the expense of separating it, will render 

 it sufficiently economical for general use. 



GREEN MANURE. For soils deficient in vegetable 

 matter, ploughing in green crops is found by expe- 

 rience to be very useful. It supplies the precise 

 material most wanting in such cases, and in quantities 

 that cannot fail to prove effective. Buckwheat and 



