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Show CORN WILL WIN DEMOCRACY'S WAR America's Greatest Cereal Crop Is Now Moving to Market. j y MAINSTAY IN NATION'S CRISIS. Surplus Whe.1t of the United States Has Been 8ent to Famine Threatened Threat-ened Europe. America- great corn crop, exceeding exceed-ing 3,000,000,000 bushels, will save the vorld"s food situation, officials of the United Stntes food administration believe. be-lieve. Corn Is the nation's best food cereal, housewives are beginning to realize. It contains all the elements needed to keep the body in a state of health and when used according to the scores of tried recipes, especially when combined com-bined with an added portion of oil or fat, will sustain life Indefinitely, ln-dlan ln-dlan warriors in colonial da.s lived on parched corn alone for many days at a time, and at Valley Forge pan bed corn was at times the sole ration of the Continental soldiers. owing to transportation dtfflcultleo caused by the war the corn crop moved more slowly to market (his year tbau evet before. No'V, however, the cereal is reaching the millers ami consumers. In the meantime the nation's surplus wheat has been sent to Europe. j'oday there are approximately 30 bushels of corn for every Ai Ticno. This quantity Is greater by the bushels bush-els than In former jears. Corn bus become the nation's mainstay main-stay In the crisis of war. Just as this cereal saved the first American colonists from famine on many occasions, just as It served as a Staple food during the War of the Revolution Rev-olution and during the Civil War, King Corn has again come to the front In I he nation's battle with autocracy. Corn meal Is finding greatly Increased Increas-ed use in the making of ordinary white bread Hundreds of housewives and many of the larger bakers are mixing jo per cent, corn meal with wheat 'lour to make leavened bread. This kind of a mixture is worked and baked "i i he -ante recipes and with the same methods that apply to straight wheat I. read. Corn bread using corn meal entlre-ly entlre-ly (s gaining a greater popularity than ever before. Housewives are coming to realize that every pound of wheat saved in America means a pound of wheat released for shipment to the nations with which America Is associated associ-ated In the war. There are a score of corn products that today possess unusual Importance for Americana Com syrup for sweetening sweet-ening corn cakes ami buckwheat cakes and for use In the kitchen instead of granulated sugar Is one of the leading product! made from corn. Corn oil, excellent for frying and for every other purpose tilled hy salad oils. Is appearing on the market in large quantities. It comes from the germ of the corn. |