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Johnny cake, corn bread, hoe cake, corn griddle cake, and I said: I am going 

 to have them get me some." So I told the man to go and buy some com 

 meal, and he went out to the store to get some. He came back and said they 

 had never heard of it. He went to all of the provision stores, and they did? 

 not know of it by that name. They call it maize, and such a thing as mush 

 for a person to eat made out of that they never heard of it. People who 

 ate the blackest rye bread and ate it with a relish, and ate horse meat 

 every day if they had any meat at all knew nothing about corn meal as food 

 for human beings. Horse meat is as common as beans in America. It ia 

 eaten by the common people and I have heard men say they would rather 

 have horse steak than any poor beefsteak. I saw men who ate horse meat 

 look with amazement at me when I went to get some corn meal to eat. 

 They had it and fed it to the hogs, and fed it to all their cattle. I went to* 

 every provision store in Copenhagen that I could think of and one man 

 said he had it and brought out a package of corn starch. He wanted to 

 charge me 75 cents for it. Ifound there was not an ounce in Denmark. 



I sent to Mr. Thomas, who was the minister at Stolkholm and he sent 

 word back there was not a pound there. There was not a pound in all 

 Scandinavia and they did not know what it was. They had no concep- 

 tion that it was food. 



To make the story short, I was determined to have it. I sent to New 

 York and they sent me over a bushel in a tin box done up in tissue paper,, 

 kept dry from the moisture. It had a cover on and I never tasted nicer, 

 They called it golden meal. 



After that we had corn cake and Johnny cake and hoe cake and flap- 

 jacks. That was our experience and that was a fact. The first thing I 

 knew I heard there was a man coming to tell about Indian corn, that man, 

 whose name should always be spoken with reverence by every farmer on 

 this continent, Jeremiah M. Rusk, then Secretary of Agriculture. He sent 

 over a man to introduce Indian corn as human food in Europe. He came 

 to Copenhagen from Germany and started in. There was an appropriation 

 of $10,000.00 for the purpose of introducing it and none since. 



C. J. Murphy came right to me, of course, and introduced himself. He 



