26 THIRTY CENT BREAD 



corn annually. Even though in 191 7 we should be 

 called upon to export 500,000,000 bushels we would 

 still have for our own use 2,000,000,000 bushels. 



Of this amount every year 50,000,000 bushels are 

 converted into glucose and laundry starch. The 

 glucose is used for numberless technical purposes, 

 including the manufacture of pastes, sizes, blacking, 

 printers' rollers, shoe polish, silvering glass for mir- 

 rors, liquid soaps, hair tonics, sponges, and in the 

 tanning of leather, the roasting of coffee, the polish- 

 ing of rice, and the production of logwood. 



Enormous quantities of corn are employed in the 

 production of dextrines, used in the textile indus- 

 tries ; for strengthening the fibre and finishing the 

 fabrics of cloth, carpets and twine; for the thicken- 

 ing of colors for calico and other printing; for 

 leather dressings ; for gums and glues ; for ink, mu- 

 cilages, and adhesives. 



Corn oil and paragol are used in the manufacture 

 of soap powders, oilcloth, rubber substitutes, insulat- 

 ing material, etc. 



Surely, if necessary, we can do without laundry 

 lump starch, corn isoap, and loUypops, in order to 

 add to our food supply the 50,000,000 bushels Qf 

 corn which annually go into the production of these 

 luxuries. 



In the production of grain alcohol, whiskey, and 

 beer from corn grits and glucose another batch of 

 50,000,000 bushels of corn can be saved for food 

 purposes, thus yielding from these two sources alone 

 100,000,000 bushels of fifty-seven pounds each. 



In the manufacture of degerminated cornijieal we 

 lose 25 per cent, of the protein, 23 per cent, of the 

 fatj and 60 per cent, of the mineral salts of the whole 



