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Show CORN WILL WIN MeGRAGY'SWAR America's Greatest Cereal Crop Is Now Moving to -. )f- Market. MAINSTAY IN NATION'S CRISIS. 8urplu Wheat of the United 8tatee Has Been Sent to Famine Threatened Threat-ened Europe. . America's great corn crop, exceeding exceed-ing 3,000,000,000 bushels, will save the world's topd situation, officials of the United Sfoi.es food administration be Ueve. 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. In-' In-' dlan warriors in colonial days lived on -arched corn alone for many days at a time, jnd at Valley Forge parched : corn wjhs at times the sole ration of the Continental soldiers. Owing to transportation difficulties i caused by the war the corn crop moved -! more slowly to market this year than r ever before. Now, however, the cereal ll reaching the millers and consumers, r In the mean time the nation's surplus Wheat has been sent to Europe. ; 'roday there are approximately 30 ; bushels of corn for every American. This quantity Is greater by fife bush-. bush-. ls than in former years. Corn has become the nation's maln- . itay in the crisis of war. J'Vjust as this cereal saved the first S ..' American colonists from famine on i t many occasions, Just as it served as a staple food during the War of the Kev- tVelutlon and during the Civil War, King ' (Corn has Hguln come to the front lu " ;the nation's battle with autocracy, j Corn meal Is (hiding greatly Increas-l Increas-l c ed use in the making of ordinary white I "bread. Hundreds of housewives and j many yt.the larger bakers are mixing 20 perUnt. corn meal with wheat ' flour to make leavened bread. This J ' kind of a mixture Is worked and baked In the same recipes and with the same I methods that apply to straight wheat I bread. 'v i Corn bread using corn meal entire- - --1 y Is gaining a greater popularity t than ever before. Housewives are i coniingVo realize that every jiouiid of V '"'''wbeatjjpvt'd In America means a pound of whenf released for shipment to the . nations with which America is assort-te$ assort-te$ 'n the wnr-! wnr-! There are a score of corn products that today possess unusual Importance for Americans. Corn svrtin for sweet- if "enlng corn cakes and buckwheat cakes and for use In the kitchen Instead of granulated sugar Is one of the leading ' jproducti,made from corn. - ' Corn excellent for frying and for : every otner purpose tilled by salad oils, ! ' Is appearing on the market In large quantities. It comes from the germ of i the corn. ! . ' |
