222 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The cost of protein in the principal stock feeding states varies from 

 3 to 5 cents per pound. In other words, the protein is several times more 

 valuable per pound than corn itself. Consequently, stock feeders want 

 more protein in corn. (Very possibly the feeders in the southern states 

 want more carbohydrates to supplement their present more abundant sup- 

 piles of nitrogenous food stuffs.) 



The price of corn starch varies from 2 or 3 cents to 5 or even 10 cents 

 per pound, depending upon the wholesale or retail nature of the sale. The 

 manufacturers of starch and glucose sugar, glucose-syrup, and other pro- 

 ducts made from starch want more starch in corn. 



In its own publication a large commercial concern, which uses enor- 

 mous quantities of corn, makes the following statements: 



" A bushel of ordinary corn, weighing 56 pounds, contains about 4V& 

 pounds of germ, 36 pounds of dry starch, 7 pounds of gluten, and five 

 pounds of bran or hull, the balance in weight being made up of water, 

 soluble matter, etc. The value of the germ lies in the fact that it contains 

 over 40 per cent of corn oil, worth, say, 5 cents per pound, while the starch. 

 is worth iy 2 cents, the gluten 1 cent, and the hull about y 2 cent per pound. 



" It can readily be seen that a variety of corn containing, say one 

 pound more oil per bushel would be in large demand. 



" Farmers throughout the country do well to communicate with their 

 respective agricultural experiment stations and secure their co-operation 

 along these lines." 



These are statements and suggestions which should, and do, attract 

 the attention of experiment station men. They are made by the Glucose 

 Sugar Refining Company, of Chicago, a company which purchases and 

 uses, in its six factories, about fifty million bushels of corn annually. 

 According to these statements, if the oil of corn could be increased one 

 pound per bushel, the actual value of the corn for glucose factories would 

 be increased 5 cents per bushel; and the President of the Glucose Sugar 

 Refining Company has personally assured the writer that his company 

 would be glad to pay a higher price for high oil oorn whenever it can be 

 furnished in large quantities. The increase of five cents per bushel on 

 fifty million bushels would add $2,500,000 to the value of the corn pur- 

 chased by this one company each year. The glucose factories are now 



