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Show The golden Ij plumes of the cornstalks 1 wave this I year over a S goodly f portion of the 343,000 square miles devoted to food crops. Placed end to end, the stalks bearing our 3,191,000,000 bushels of corn would reach to the sun and back, a distance of 184,000,000 miles, leaving enough over to traverse the distance between earth and moon thirteen times and girdle the globe six and one-half times! ZSf'fSXP 1" again is king ' The golden A I ')lllmes of tue maize crop wave jf f assurance to a worried world 3 1 that starvation is not imminent ft Wheat, aristocratic cousin of the yellow grain, is going to be a ySC'W'1 trifle short this year. But the old maize deity of the Aztecs seems to have smiled upon the broad American acres given to the cultivation of the sun-tinted grain of man and beast. Wheat, a foreign importation, is a "slacker." Corn, native to America and always peculiarly connected con-nected with American material prosperity, has certainly cer-tainly "done its bit." This year, with half the world facing starvation and dependent upon the other half for subsistence, the government crop forecast reads: "Corn, 3.191,-000.000 3.191,-000.000 bushels." V The lifty-one-story Woolworth Building rears its nragnltieent crest TOO feet above Broadway. To the beaten copper cornice of the main portion of the building the height is that of a standard city block, 4(H) feet. Its total cubic capacity is in excess of fi21.'JiX cubic yards. It will hold at one time, theoretically, 11.737.8-12 bushels of the golden cereal. Yet the American corn crop of 1017 would fill the Woolworth Building to its last available inch of area 20 times ! If allowance were made in the calculation for walls and floors the flood of grain from (he vast agricultural area deviated to the "king crop of the country" would 11 1 1 the world's greatest structure E00 times ! It is frequently said that compulations in bil- ) i "l m t j i I t r l-2Lt 1 t M ft M f ! 1 V i vPi Mr,,Brp ii4 -af .Mil r mt-m1 fin tft J Vheat, Erstwhile Immigrant to Our Shores, Has Proved a "Slacker,9' hut Indian Com, Native to 'America, Has "Done Its Bit" Right Loyally in Response to a ill Steadily Increasing, Demasid for Foodstuffs lions mean nothing to the imaginative 'side of the human mind. The intellect intel-lect has had no experience or observation to suggest the graphic scope of a billion bil-lion bushels of corn. But some appreciation of the immensity of this yield is acquired when it is computed com-puted that the 328,608 horses in the United States army could be fed upon the present corn crop for 207 years 1 For one year it would constitute an adequate ration for each ol UC,352,740 horses! A horse eats ten or twelve times its own weight annually, and the food hoard that could withstand the voracity of almost 100.000.000 beasts for a whole year holds out to the scrimping and saving world a promise of relief that the war-ridden countries of Europe will acclaim with joy. Estimating the average length of the stalks at seven feet and placing them end to end, the American Ameri-can corn crop would reach to the sun and back a distance of some 1S4.0OO.000 miles and after this "Jack and the Beanstalk" trip to the heart of the solar system would" leave a surplus capable of thirteen thir-teen round trips to the moon (distant 240,000 miles), with enough left over to girdle the world at the equator six and one-half times! Estimating the average length of an ear of corn at ten Inches, the 1917 corn crop, placed end to end would girdle the globe at.its greatest circumference 2.S13 times! With "cash corn" quotations hovering around $1.S0 per bushel, the approximate value of this year's yield is something like So.fli HJ.i H i0.00 . This is almost al-most three times the size of the initial Liberty Loan sale of government bonds and a sum so staggering that, like the other mammoth financial llgmvs of these extraordinary times it suggests nothing at all of its actual immensity and remains a mere flat symbol on paper. This vast sum will nor be actually realized, of course. Corn is distinctively a produrt which leaves a goodly portion of its annual yit-ld oil the farm. It is a nieatmaker par excellence. Now is the time, say students of the subjnet. to popularize corn as food in Europe and Increase our Estimating the average length of an ear of corn at ten inches, the 1917 corn crop, placed end to end in domino fashion, would girdle the globe at the equator 2,813 times! Straightened out, this "com girdle" would extend S2,325,0C0 miles, or more than halfway to the sunl annual exports by hundreds of millions of dollars. Corn has never received a very warm welcome in Europe, where a peculiar prejudice obtains in favor of wheat and rye bread. But with starvation stalking grim over the battlefields and the peasantry of half a dozen belligerent countries eating "black bread" compounded of a little flour and much straw, wood fiber and chaff, corn's opportunity has come. The wholesome, gold-tinted grain would appear like ambrosia to hungry Europe. The old prejudice against the American "maize" will vanish before the keener appetite of the peasants whose shell-shattered furrows haven't yielded more than a tithe of the usual wheat crop. As a food corn is more appetizing than the people peo-ple .of the war-ravaged continent realize. It adapts itself to more combinations and purposes than any but an expert in the cuisine of corn cookery has any cognizance of. The Indians of the prediscovery era ale it. raw and cooked, boiled, roasted and pounded into coarse meal and baked in cakes. It was the cereal staple of the whole North American continent. The colonists embraced it eagerly, and the old New England Thanksgiving feasts are replete with trib- What This Years Corn Would Do , AT CURRENT prices the 3,191.000.000 ttlbushels would jay off the first Liberty Lib-erty Loan three times. Feed all the horses m the United States army for 297 years. Feed 100.000,000 horses for a year if each ate twelve times its own weight in corn every twelve mon ths. utcs to the golden heart of the corn. Like the pumpkin, equally golden and sturdy and delicious, corn is a ii'ue blue American product. "The one gift to civilization that we may credit to the American Ameri-can aborigines," said a seventeenth century historian, his-torian, "is the American 'maize' or 'Indian corn.' the production nf whirh promises tn be undertaken under-taken a vast "scale" Just lw "vat" that soale has been is. attested by the fact that it is now the greatest great-est annual crop In the country, coun-try, and often spoken of as the "American ' barometer of prosperity." This year, with wheat short, starvation in Europe Eu-rope an imminent possibility and the raising of greater numbers of live stock an urgent ur-gent necessity, our corn crop is the largest and most valuable val-uable in history. To the American, used from infancy to "Indian pudding.", "johnnycake" and the other toothsome combinations from corn, the European prejudice against the sustaining and palatable cereal has always been more or less of a mystery. mys-tery. Their "black" bread, peculiar pecu-liar lo Russia, Poland and sections of Germany and the Balkan states, is. in Ameri- I can eyes, the most unappetizing unappetiz-ing concoction imaginable ' A recent arrival! at an Atlantic port brought to America a specimen of "black bread" as the hungry peasants are now eating it. It was a miserable looking crust, containing a very small portion of bran and rye and a very large percentage of straw, grass, twigs and other non-nourishing aud unpalatable unpala-table "bulk" creators. One ear of corn would contain con-tain more calories of energy than a whole panful of black bread. Corn keeps well, is handled with the ease peculiar pe-culiar to all cereals and adapts itself to innumerable purposes, from the manufacture of alcohol now Germany's sole fuel for internal combustion motors to fowl dishes that a king might, crave. lis importance impor-tance at a time when "food" is on the lips of almost all of the statisticians in the world cannot well be overestimated. The manufacture of distilled alcoholic beverages from corn has been prohibited. The uo of corn in the daily cuisine is being encouraged by" government iletnonstra tions and booklets delineating the tnaiiv The cubical capacity of the 51-story Woolworth, the world's biggest office building, is approximately 524,200 cubic yards. This would accommodate 11,757,842 bushels of corn, and the 1917 crop would fill this tremendous structure 280 times! If allowance were made for floor and vijall space, the corn crop would fill it to 4 capacity 300 times! iU $ V l' I '-h(' J I 7 X ' 1 , J$ 4. ? I M' l- ,n capacity ' l) Xn , 51-story h Wheat, Erstwhile Immigrant lo Our Shores, Has Proved a r?3'$nO a-w ' I s&kfi'-i! ' ' i 'j'" biggest office L )f ' "Slacker," bat Indian Cora, Native to 'America, $.'$4; jr f Has "Done Its Bit" Right Loyally in Response to a -''4 JS P XM , 'IP- v. Steadily Increasing Demand for Foodstuffs iUr.Si aJlILe 'f W i . , n?hfti I li bushels of corn, tT?lW Vn flF I . "'.'I ft r '-l tremendous Jiiii : 4 ill ; W 28 ' If s X yJ Mmtmlm$ . "TtJt l If allowance Z?r ' . 1 C C- 300 times! plumes Jr i m mmmsm h.A m? "'fi i of the 'H ,1' y j lJUik r ' v1-i cornstalks I H Estimating the average length of an ear of corn at ten inches, the 1917 com ,ff (t t f ' f l(s J - wave this f r-f : f crop, placed end to end in domino fashion, would girdle the globe at the I u frft l'rl "f , " year over a I h jf equator 2,813 times! Straightened out, this "com girdle" would extend SCf. t y " t f lx . '; goodly f f ' 52,325,0C0 miles, or more than halfway to the sun! Lt f I x ;" ( r ' ' " W - 1 portion of fjisEssssssamt asssEBasaslx ' . I? 47v ' " ' i the 343,000 N ' V lions mean nothing to the annual exports by hundreds of millions of dollars. has been is. attested by the 1 1 1 X I J' J s square miles 1 Si Imaginative 'side of the Corn has never received a very warm welcome fact that it is now the great M W 2t I 1 ! ? ' , i devoted to I I I ' human mind The Intel- in Europe, where a peculiar prejudice obtains in est annual crop in the coun Wl - 4 ' ? N I i lect has had no experience favor of wheat and rye bread. But with starvation try, and often spoken of as , v. ( r 2 V, 1 ' rood crops. ewmaaaMSaaaJ rtSSSEBKEaS3 . or observation to suggest stalking grim over the battlefields and the peasantry the "American ' barometer of 'ffth ?1 fe&tS&h $ Placed end to the graphic scope of a bil- of half a dozen belligerent countries eating "black prosperity." This year, with Sfe M f 4 SStl O end, the lVT lion bushels of corn. But bread" compounded of a little flour and much straw, wheat short, starvation in Eu r ( i Qftl Z t stalks bearing t&i' some appreciation of the wood fiber and chaff, corn's opportunity has come. rope an imminent possibilitj U ' . n- 101 nnnnnn ,-'?3hA& ,mmpI,,ln. of tnls vield is The wholesome, gold-tinted grain would appear and the raising of greater 1 1 1 , lv izSZS5t t our J 131 1)00,000 acmdred when it 'is com- like ambrosia to hungry Europe. The old prejudice numbers of live stock an ur ' 'If " iS1 4 ' bushels of com would reach to the sun and back, a distance of tha). the 325,608 against the American "maize" will vanish before gent necessity, our corn crop $ 'V-$S-- I 184,000,000 miles, leaving enough over to traverse the distance horses in the United States the keener appetite of the peasants whose shell-shat- is the largest and most val between earth and moon thirteen times and girdle the globe six army could be fed upon tered furrows haven't yielded more than a tithe of uable in history. T f-Kk . N ' , and one-half times! the present corn crop for the usual wheat crop. To the American, used from t JO-CC. V-TN- 4 f x 097 rears! For one year "As a food corn is more appetizing than the peo- infancy to "Indian pudding.' fi &&K0$pq 'ysy'2$Li ' VrWr,tOK a-iin is kins' Thegolden it would constitute an adequate ration for each of pie .of the war-ravaged continent realize. It adapts "johnnycake" and the other jr&3 y 1 JNV. ' e b' fc ,1(,0-0m . , itself to more combinations and purposes than any toothsome combinations from s H TiZS St- 2ZZP 1 J AL PUlmeS f I"6 maiZe C1? ""I,0 Th'oL ea ts t'en or twelve times its own weight but an expert in the cuisine of corn cookery has corn, the European prejudice ' i tSZXCS-A, XV I Wheat ri,"ora t c con hi of the the voracity of almost 100.000.000 beasts for a whole The Indians of the prediscovery era ale it raw l-latable cereal has always gLCTriS f A ft yellow "rain is gohig to be a -ear holds out to the scrimping and saving world and cooked, boiled, roasted and pounded into coarse been more or less of a mys- nS$3Nr OJC&Zb rifle stTort this year. But the a promise of relief that the war-ridden countries of meal and baked in cakes It was the cereal staple lory !, old maize deity -of the A7,tecs Europe will acclaim with joy. of the whole Nor h American contmen. 1 he The be, bread, pecu jX? ' -: seems to have smiled upon the broad American Estimating the average length of the stalks at colonists embraced it eagerly, and the old New a of f eri , T W? f acres given to the cultivation of the sun-tinted grain seven feet and placing them end to end, .he Ameri- England Thanksgiving feasts are replete with tnb- - 10ns f Germany and the jSZ? of man and beast. can corn crop would reach to the sun and hack-a c ,n e" s the 1, t T I Vfh TKt 1 " Wheat, a foreign importation, is a "slacker." distance of some 1S4.0CX1.000 miles-and after this . , " 2! "T L'H 5r?7 i Corn, native to America and always peculiarly con- "Jack and the Beanstalk" trip to the heart of the j-Qg Y ear S LiOm "A Iect . , lns1nable- ' fey-- ' i'7nJZJ2 nected with American material prosperity, has cer- solar system would" leave a surplus capable of thir- ., t ' an ,u . xit t.n round trins tn th moon (distant 240.000 miles). A nn H i Jn Atlantic port brought to merits of the humble relative of the lordly wheat. The suggestion has been made that Americans oat more corn and save the wheat for exportation to countries which seemed to prefer the latter, but it has been well maintained that the time fur "international "interna-tional propaganda" in behalf of com has arrived. Our corn crop, cramming the YVoulworth Building ' (in graphic comparison) hundreds of times, girdling the earlh repeatedly and reaching through the millions mil-lions of miles of space to the sun, reluming and traversing the distance from the moon a dozen times, is well worth an effort much more practical than these hypothetical' achievements. Ameri.-au "cuni" the com of the pioneers and rilgrim Fathers is about to take its place anion" the great food products f ,1, whole world. It has ' lived up to Ih,. best of American traditions The wonderful :i.l!il.ilili:i.iii)i)-l,i,shel cro,. ,.ov,.s ,,,. is nn able ally in the arduous t:lr.k ,,f ,.,,., ,, world safe for democracy." " Copyright, 1317, by J. Kcf'.ty.) |