790 MAIZE 



CHAP, are the first material results of the changes it has undergone. 



xvn - Inside of the still when these vapours rise to the top they are 



condensed into 'high wines,' which are drawn off, while the 



mash, with its remaining moisture after all the high wines 



have been collected, is carried away to the feed-house. 



" Now that Nature's mysterious work of chemical extrac- 

 tion has been perfected, modern ingenuity takes the grains in 

 hand to see what can be made of them. Here is where science 

 achieves her finest triumphs and becomes the true servant, for it 

 is in the saving of every atom of waste, the conversion to profit 

 of things already used and which former ages considered of no 

 worth, that latter-day manufacture makes its surest margin of 

 gain. Millions have thus been added to the wealth of the 

 world in the past decade. 



"When the mash, now known as 'slop,' heavily saturated 

 with moisture, is first taken to the feed-house it is subjected 

 to heavy pressure and all possible liquid squeezed out of it. 

 The residuum of the grain is then dried by being run through 

 heated chambers and over spiral evaporators and packed as 

 feed for cattle. 



"There still remains, however, the liquid, and this upon 

 examination is found to be high in nutritive elements. After 

 sundry experiments a mechanical method was obtained of 

 converting this into solid form, and now it comes out from the 

 final stage of reduction in the shape of a thin, breadstuffy 

 brown sheet which when it first leaves the compressing-rollers 

 has the appearance of crepe paper. Added to the dried-out 

 grains before mentioned, about 4 lbs. to the bushel, there 

 results a nutritious cattle feed, which wet down with corn 

 stalks and other fodder is one of the most effective of milk- 

 producers, showing as high as 33 per cent of proteids, 14 per 

 cent of fats, 40 per cent of carbohydrates, and from 12 to 14 

 per cent of fibre. This utilization of the fluid residuum adds 

 about 1 cent a lb. to the value of the food. Thus the last 

 elements of worth in the grain are saved, and preserved in 

 this way go back through the medium of manure to the land 

 to make more corn. 



" Meantime the work of making de-natured alcohol goes on 

 without interruption. The high wines which were solidified 

 from the vapours thrown off from the mash in the beer-vat are 

 again vaporized by means of steam coils and redistilled in a 

 similar fashion, after which they come out in the shape of 

 alcohol. 



