| Show rubber RUBBER FROM CORN OR MAIZE J ai R z ff 61 AN 7 W 4 A le A modam hybrid white corn arlea ada corn Goil dess of stone mou moud A buller Bull dr pottery jul jutca tross pr dy by COL FAIN WHITS WHITE KING research director of archaeology of kentucky jiow ilow many pounds of synthetic rubber vill a bushel of corn produce no two authorities seem to agree the oil industry claims considerably sider ably more corn must be used to produce grain alcohol and from it synthetic rubber or thay the farm bloc estimates tho the distillers association states that a thousand gallons of high proof alcohol will produce a ton of butadiene but adione bernard M baruch has baa been appointed chairman by the president of a committee to recommend the best program to produce synthetic rubber for the war effort nince the presidents veto of the grain rubber bill it Is hoped that much of the confusion and varying estimates can be eliminated as to the best method product quantities and means of producing rubber the public to is interested te first in securing a permanent and immediate source ot of rubber for or the war effort next for or their cars vehicles and private uses and are not particularly interested in the controversy between the farm bloc and the oil industry in their efforts to become the principal source of thin vital product except that the issue become more clarified rind immediate results be obtained to produce rubber la is not so simple as it may ono one can not dump a bushel of corn into a hopper and from it grind out rubber it la Is first necessary to distill alcohol from grain and from tho the alcohol through long chemical lessch finally secure a satisfactory rubber the producing of synthetic rubber from oil la Is practically as long and laborious oa as tho the grain method both requiring steel in plant construction manpower man power and complicated methods little did the prehistoric man realize that when ho he developed the plant from the cereal grass in the highlands of mexico that from it would come one 61 the principal sources of food fo odthe the hybrid corn of today and synthetic rubber of tomorrow neither did the mound builder at wickliffe kentucky site of our greatest ancient burled city know that when for the first time he developed in large numbers a particular typo type of juice press which la is illustrated above that ho he was beginning to produce alcohol which industry to Is now centered in kentucky in the many distilleries tho the mound builder squeezed his juices from his pottery press collecting it in shallow wide plates which he no doubt allowed to ferment for the first time in the mississippi valley and in kenta kentucky he made a form of nl al cohol which ho he evidently dennl with great relish during the liun hun deeds ot of years ot of occupancy nt at wide 1110 kentucky Kon tucky lie ho never learned to distill alcohol from ills his for fermented juices of wild grape ernpao strawberry and plum etc ancient man mail in our country and in central america realized the importance of corn over long per periods 1 0 1 s ot of famine corn wits was the principal means of sustaining life often the alio goddess of fertility and corn associated among the early curly gro groups middle figure above tho the corn danco dance la is celebrated in august among tho the southwestern san domingo indians for hundreds or cen aurles corn lias has been worshipped wor shipped ni as a source of food for its lire giving 9 qualities it sustained the fiort american in drought famine and adversity when we look today over the waving fields of corn and see tho batalka of tas tassell ng corn and know it Is a source of rubber wo we probably feel as antich veneration and respect for till this grain as did the early un clenta in this country come and see the mound abound builders cobs no longer than your small finger and tiny grains of corn sixty thousand of these theno a thousand years old and a million other things such as is tools jewels tein temples vies altars and the people themselves with their possession in an ancient burled city located at ky |
