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mean is those who raise cattle want cheap corn. I have talked recently with 

 a very prominent farmer in Morgan county, and I talked with one the other 

 day Irom Franklin county. Both of those gentlemen said to me: "I have 

 made more in raising stock with corn at 50 cents a bushel than I ever made 

 at 20 cents a bushel. The greater the price of the corn, the more you have of 

 the cattle, the better prices you get for cattle. 



Mr. John Stewart: I would like to ask if you have looked at corn 

 shipped over from' this country? 



Mr. Carr: I did, sir. I saw a load of corn on the dock. I went to 

 our grocer there and got him to go down and get some and grind it, and 

 you could not eat it. It had been wet and was musty from the voyage. If 

 in sending it you take as much care of corn, as in sending flour, keep it dry, 

 there would be no trouble. Flour would be kept in a dry place, and wheat 

 would, too. This corn meal was musty, for the corn was in a ship with no 

 cover over it, shelled corn on a ship, and that is the way most of it is shipped 

 abroad, no care being taken of it. The gentleman is perefctly right, but it 

 is just as easy to ship corn to Liverpool and Copenhagen dry, and care for 

 it so as to have it wholesome, as it is to ship wheat. 



Mr. Hostetter: Is it a fact that the corn shipped to these foreign coun- 

 tries will have to be consumed as a luxury? Getting it there will add to 

 the expense so much, it is claimed, that it will be a luxury, and the quanti- 

 ties consumed will be small. I think if that were true, it will be hard to 



convince a convention that they sho uld ship corn. I would like to ask if that 

 is a fact? 



A. I don't think it is at all. 1 don't see why Indian corn cannot be 

 placed on the market as cheaply as other things. The question is to get 

 them to eat it. The exportation has doubled since 1891. We don't expect 

 to get the people to live on Indian corn, but we do expect, and we do believe, 

 that we can get it on the tables as an article of diet, the same as other arti- 

 cles, and from experience there I heard nothing in all the talks that I had 

 that seemed to indicate that we could not put Indian corn on the market in 

 all those countries with as little expense as any other cereal. The corn is 

 ^certainly cheaper than wheat per bushel, and there is no reason why it 

 should cost any more for Indian corn than flour. 



