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The St. Louis Chamber of Commerce in 1876 



the author quoted, was not realized. Tobacco chewing 

 dechned noticeably after the war's end and factories 

 moved closer to raw material supplies of cigarette leaf. 



'orn produces a famous pipe bowl 



Com in great quantities had long been grown on Mis- 

 souri's farms. (Before the opening of the 20th century 

 more than one-tenth of the world's crop of the grain was 

 Missouri-grown. ) 



With all that corn available it was only to be expected 

 that some imaginative person would discover uses of the 

 cob other than fodder or fertilizer. Cornsilk was already 

 being surreptitiously smoked by numerous boys as a 

 preliminary to the delights of real tobacco, still forbid- 

 den them by their elders. 



