| Show properties OP or kirias or CORX CORM indian corn according to professor johnson Jo linson contains starch oil pil and albumen but in very different proportions according accor dinc to the seed which is analyzed the southern corn has a fair proportion of starch and of oil also another variety the name we did not hear ilear has a large quantity of starch but no oil so has lias rice corn sweet corn hn his but little oil but a considerable amount of gluten ac if starch is required the cont cor containing the largest proportion of this in gradient efto if to fatten cattle corn containing i oil should be used pop corn is dependent for its peculiar powers if we may so speak upon the quantity of oil which it contains its popping by which its whole character if is changed being the result of the tile expansion of the oil od contained within the cells one barrel of this corn when popped will make malic sixteen barrels one barrel of rice corn will make thirty two barrels after popping rj re ference was made to wheat which is kaid kald said said sald to contain usually about two per cent of oil while corn contains between nine and ten tea per cent thus it will be seen that knowledge of the structure of the seed has to do with the tile subject of raising and fattening cat tie and with manufacture |
