CORN 



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as food for man and beast, there are about thirty products 

 made from it : six kinds of mixing glucose, used by refiners 

 of table syrups, brewers, leather manufacturers, jelly mak- 

 ers, fruit preservers, and apothecaries; four kinds of crystal 

 glucose, used by confectioners ; two kinds of grape sugar, used 

 by brewers and tanners; pearl starch, used by paper and 

 cotton-mills ; powdered starch, used by baking-powder manu- 

 facturers; florine, used by flour mixers; dextrine, used by 

 fine fabric, paper box, mucilage and glue manufacturers; 



FIG. 14. ANALYSIS OF THE COMPOSITION OF CORN 



corn-oil, used by table oil mixers, lubricating oil mixers, 

 manufacturers of fibre, shade cloth, paint, and similar indus- 

 tries where vegetable oils are employed; corn-oil cakes, used 

 for cattle feeding purposes; rubber substitute, used in the 

 place of crude rubber; corn germs, from which oil and cake 

 are made ; British gum, a starch which makes a very adhesive 

 medium ; distilled spirits, used in the manufacture of smoke- 



