334 CORN 



Sometimes the maize meal is leavened with yeast and subsequently- 

 baked in iron vessels. In this form, it is known as "pone." In Ire- 

 land, baking powder is used or the maize meal is mixed with flour and 

 so converted into loaves. One-third of its weight of good flour is 

 sufficient to enable fine maize meal to form good loaves. The color 

 of the bread is always rather dark, however, even if the proportion of 

 wheat flour be increased to one-half. 



Exportation. Our export trade in corn meal amounts to a great 

 deal at the present time. During the seventeen years from 1898 to and 

 including 1914, the following amounts with values appended, were 

 shipped to foreign markets : 



Year Barrels of Meal Value 



1900 943,782 $2,148,410 



1901 896,877 2,065.432 



1902 348,034 1,046,643 



1903 451,506 1,382,127 



1904 590,774 1,691,669 



1905 371,565 1,113,295 



1906 543,794 1,623,397 



1907 766,880 2,313,410 



1908 654,515 2,053,447 



1909 452,907 1,549,010 



1910 331,531 1,147,568 



1911 463,266 1,456,683 



1912 439,624 1,519,792 



1913 428,794 1,444,539 



1914 336,241 1,185,891 



The following countries have been the chief importers of corn meal 

 manufactured in the United States according to the Government 

 Statistical Report on Commerce and Navigation. 



The total number of barrels exported to all foreign countries for 

 1914 was 336,241. British Africa, West Indies, Porto Rico, the United 

 Kingdom and the Dominion of Canada, including Labrador and New 

 Foundland have been the principal importers. 



The above figures give an idea of the countries using most of the 

 export corn meal. It may seem strange that so much goes to South 

 Africa. It may be interesting to know, in this connection, that plahi 

 corn cake constitutes the chief food of the South African Kafirs em- 

 ployed in the African mines. 



Milling By-Products. The by-products from this system of milling, 

 consist of the germs and hulls. The larger manufacturers press the 

 oil out of the germ and then sell the "germ-oil meal" for stock feed. 

 Rut, as the majority of corn meal mills are in the smaller towns in 



