Show 1IIC CORN COINENTION lao Dilegates In Alteiiilinro MI the loel big Held In I Calling Chicago rob IOThe Hint corn convention con-vention ever held In the United Htnte began today at the Grand Northern hotel about 150 delegateq being Us ent anti more oro expected Narl all the middle western Commonwealths or represented as well an II low oC the far western eommnwrlllth 1rrallge ments bay been made for giving IL practical demonstration of the value ot coin as food MrP n Coburn secretary of the Marinas Pinto board oC agrjculture was chen chairman Ile said The object nC our coming tog the I to confer About the wayet and mean hy Ill ell Americas Iemler crup nnd wonderful cereal may Le bell er under stood Rod appreciated Ly the world nt IlIrA IlIrAThe government statistics holV the acreage devoted to corn to have been 11 I p recent year about ten per rent grntr than he aggregate devoted to hat OIlS barley buckwheat and po tlltoe We hear much DC the wheRi crop Statistics however how that during the lat decade the value one sear with another of our corn crop has been 99 pr cent greater than that of our hent The value of the corn crop In this dade has been about the same as the combined value ot wheat ants barlr buckvAlicat and potatoes produced In the same period Th average anuuat product ol American silver mines during the three years ending with 1395 wan less than U COO 000 while the Average value ot American corn for each of the last lei years has been nearly 16000000 or more than thirteen and a halt time the value of all I I our silver which In tile mind is DC so many I a endod with well nigh godlike attributes AddinG to the silver the output DC gold we nnnually produce corn worth more than seven times as much as both thee precious and much coveted metlll |