1903.] BAILEY—MOVEMENT IN PLANT-BREEDING. 57 
‘¢Tn its own publication a large commercial concern, which uses 
enormous quantities of corn, makes the following statements : 
«¢¢A bushel of ordinary corn, weighing fifty-six pounds, contains 
about four and one-half pounds of germ, thirty-six pounds of dry 
starch, seven pounds of gluten, and five pounds of bran or hull, the 
balance in weight being made up of water, soluble matter, etc. 
The value of the germ lies in the fact that it contains over forty 
per cent. of corn oil, worth, say, five cents per pound, while the 
starch is worth one and one-half cents, the gluten one cent, and 
the hull about one-half cent per pound. 
“©<Tt can readily be seen that a variety of corn containing, say, 
one pound more oil per bushel weuld be in large demand. 
«¢<« Farmers throughout the country do well to communicate with 
their respective agricultural experiment stations and secure their 
co-operation along these lines.’ 
‘These are statements and suggestions which should, and do, 
attract the attention of experiment station men. ‘They are made 
by the Glucose Sugar Refining Company of Chicago, a company 
which purchases and uses, in its six factories, about fifty million 
bushels of corn annually. According to these statements, if the oil 
of corn could be increased one pound per bushel, the actual value 
of the corn for glucose factories would be increased five cents per 
bushel ; and the president of the Glucose Sugar Refining Company 
has personally assured the writer that his company would be glad 
to pay a higher price for high oil corn whenever it can be 
furnished in large quantities. The increase of five cents per 
bushel on fifty million bushels would add $2,500,000 to the value 
of the corn purchased by this one company each year. ‘The 
glucose factories are now extracting the oil from all the corn they 
use and are unable to supply the market demand for corn oil. On 
the other hand, to these manufacturers protein is a cheap by-pro- 
duct and consequently they want less protein in corn. ’ 
‘“¢Corn with a lower oil content is desired as a feed for bacon 
hogs, especially for our export trade, very extensive and thorough 
investigations conducted in Germany and Canada having proved 
conclusively that ordinary corn contains too much oil for the pro- 
duction of the hard firm bacon which is demanded in the markets 
of Great Britain and Continental Europe.” 
It is very interesting to note that this does not mention the 
improvement of Leaming’s White, or Jones’ Yellow Dent, or any 
