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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH The' confusion In regard to corn la increased by the existence of still oth- Plane Is Launched From Dirigible er corns. Kaffir corn, also a grass, and a cousin of Indian corn, is one of the grain sorghums. It carries Its round seeds not on ears but In an upright plume at the very top of Its stalk where Indian corn has Its grainless tassel. It did not reach America ' until after 1880. Jerusalem corn Is somewhat like kaffir corn and the other grain sorghums (milo, maize, durra, etc.) but Its hang downward, the ends of the stalk' being bent over. It, too, is an Immigrant. Broom corn Is the queerest of the cousins that bear commonly the corn surname, and Incidentally It Is the oldest of the nonsugar-bearinsorghums to be cultivated In the United States. Brooms were made commercially in America from locally grown broom-cor- n as early as 1798, and the plant was grown for home broom making some years earlier. The seeds are but the of little value in broom-corare adstems of the mirably suited to use In making brooms. Corn That Turn Inside Out, Popcorn is merely a sort of dwarf Indian corn bearing small ears studAn airplane was recently launched from the great British dirigible ded with small, hard kernels. The latwhile flying over Fulham, England. A trapeze to which the plane was ter have the property however, of pufattached was lowered well from the body of the dirigible, the planes motor fing or popping when heat Is applied. was started and the trapeze was then cast off. After circling about, the plane The hard outer shell bsrsts and the approached the dirigible, adjusted Its speed to that of the airship, and hooked grain puffs out so violently that It onto the trupeze which wus then hauled up, enabling the plane pilot to ascend turns itself Inside out. Millions of Into the airship. Above Is shown the plane ufter being hauled up under the dollars in nickels and dimes have dirigible. changed hands on American street corners because of the contortions of popcorn grains. It Is generally accepted that America gave Indian corn to the world. A few students have supported the theory that the plant came from Asia to Europe and from America to Europe at about the same time, soon af-e-r the discovery of America. There are no generally accepted records of corns existence In Asia before the beginning of the Sixteenth century, Corn, in Other Countries at the time of the colonization of however, while It is known to have America, and since Indian aorn, was been cultivated In America for many Mean It the predominant grain crop In the New centuries before the arrival of Coworld, it soon monopolized the name. lumbus. Does in America. To those who have not dabbled In Since the Fifteenth century corn classification of often the corn, has botany spread all over the world and is Washington. Because the corn crop in the United reaching a height of 20 feet, as a now an Important crop In parts of all States for the past season apparently grass, Is a bit surprising. It is, how- the continents as well as In New Zeacannot be marketed satisfactorily ever, Just as truly a grass as the tiny land and other Islands. It is one of plants that carpet golf greens, the suc- the most Important food grains In poreither In the sack or on the hoof, corn holds the center of the economic culent foliage that covers pastures, the tions of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and Rumania. In Burma and even the political stage In cereals, wheat, oats, rice, and the like, or Its closer kinsmen, the sugar-cane-s the corn grain Is a sort of America Just now. Just what Is corn? asks a bulle- and the sorghums. Corn is often The type grown there has fine, silky tin from the Washington (1). 0.) head- called a giant gruss. It Is rather a shucks or husks Inclosing the ear. product. It quarters of the National Geographic conservative giant,' though, beside its This Is the highly-prizeto the white the wlvtckin is used that bamboo, cousin, grass grows wrap society. The youngest farm lad will be sure Into the sky. Bamboo attains a height cheroots smoked by Burmese men, of 125 feet and more. women and babies. he can answer that question fully, continues the bulletin. But can he? Toll an Englishman that a bumper corn crop Is causing our farmers economic distress and he will not think of Holds of great, tall stalks and big golden ears, but of waving wheat and huge elevators. You must speak of maize If you would have him understand. Talk to a South African of either corn or maize and he will fall to get your meaning. He grows the same cobs, hut plant with its It is mealies to him. So around the world you will find what we know as corn growing under half a dozen aliases, while In other countries corn means something entirely different. Corn is an English word of long standing. Of old, It meant any small, Is one hard, granule. Pepper-corsurwhile beef corned is, survlvul, Corned meat gets prisingly, another. Its name from the fact that It was first prepared with coarse grains of salt Even acorn has had a misspelling legitimatized because early Dr. Dayton C. Miller of the Case Englishmen naturally mistook its der- School of Applied Science, Cleveland, ivation to be from Ohio, with his invention which Is said Corn and Lawn Grasses Are Cousins. to be able to photograph the sounds From Its very general meaning of music. Doctor Miller has Just been 'corn,' used alone, came In time to awarded the $1,000 prize of the Amermean the small grains of the cereal ican Association for the Advancement plants such as barley, wheat, oats, of Science as the author of the most notable contribution to science. The ( etc. ; and finally, In England and some of the colonies It usually meant wheat. award Is based on bis paper on The Michelsou-MorleEther Drift Expert- Corn meant the cereals In general ment. seed-cluste- g seed-cluster- R-3- 3 Touring World With Com Crop Dont What el Yugo-Slavl- a, d grain-studde- d English-speakin- g n salt-corn- s. oak-cor- y at Washington and by studying the diaries of 150 travelers EXAGGERATION OF INDIAN office old-tim- ATTACKS IN WEST IS TOLD Prof. Hulbert, Director of Commission on Western History, Reaches Conclusion After Much Research. they suffered In the trek for gold. Miners built houses of these wagon wrecks In the days of the Comstock lode discovery In Nevada a decade Colorado Springs, Colo. Historical later. Great rivers were not difficult to fiction of the Wild West appears to have exaggerated the number of cross when Hats or rafts were sesanguinary attacks by Indians upon cured, but the thousands of little creeks not more than ten feet Immigrant trains along the old Oregon trail. Nature, and not the aborigines, wide were the daily terror of the furnished most of the dangers en- teamsters and delayed the caravans more than did the few rivers of width. countered by the pioneers. reached been have Trappers and gold hunters suffered conclusions These from Indian attacks more than did director II. Archer Hulbert, Prof. by of the commission on western history, the great Immigrant trains In the era who has Just completed the task of of mass migration to Oregon. Between mapping six of the most famous old 1842 and 1S50 the number of trains trails from the Missouri river to the that were seriously molested by the-remen were few, the Investigators Pacific coast. found. the miles along In a space of forty Information used in the survey and Carson river on the trail broken by 4,000 dead cattle end map making was obtained from state the 8,000 abandoned wagons were left to and county surveyors offices, from the record the history of the hardships original surveys In the general land cut-ban- forty-niner- s, k e and pioneers. In addition to the Oregon trail the map reproduces the routes of the Mormon trail fork from Omaha to Fort Laramie; the Nebraska City-FoKearney branch; the California trail from Yale post office, Idaho, to the coast; the Salt Lake branch of the California trail; the s trail rt ' Forty-niner- Raft river In northwestern Utah; the Salt route, and the Overland Stage branch of the main trail from Julesburg, Colo., to on Lnke-Placervll- Salt Lake City. I CABINET i L (l). lltii. Western Newspaper Union.) If Ideas of health and trium- j phant achievement are brought Into consciousness, we at the same time experience a state of energy, a feeling of courage and capability and joy and a stimulation of all the bodily processes. Warren FINE CAKES As soon as eggs are reasonably plentiful we will enjoy a sponge cake occasionally. Golden Sponge Cake. Beat seven egg yolks with a dover egg beater Add until very light one cupful of sugar a little at a time, still con-- , tinulng to beat - (use a wire beater), add cupful of boiling water alternately with one cupful of pastry flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of bakteaspooning powder and ful of salt sift three times. Add one teaspoonful of vanilla, pour Into a greased and floured tube pan. Bake for fifty minutes In a slow oven. f Maple Nut Cake. Cream of add cupful butter, cupful of sugar gradually, then add two egg yolks well beaten, and one cupful of maple sirup. Add the dry ingredients which have been sifted together twice, two and cupfuls of pastry of a teaspoonful of flour, teaspooncinnamon, two and fuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt and teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, all sifted twice. Beat thoroughly and fold In the stiffly beaten egg whites. Tour Into a and floured tube pan and Cover bake for forty-fivminutes. the cake with maple Icing and decorate with halves of walnut or pecan meats over the top and sides. s Pecan Cake. Crean one of a cupful, add cupful of sugar gradually; beat three egg yolks and add to the creamed sugar and butter, then add cupful of motwo lasses. Sift cupfuls of pastry flour with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of nutmeg and teaspoonful of salt; add to the above mixture alternately f with cupful of grapejuice. Fold In the stiffly beaten egg whites. Chop slightly one pound each of seeded raisins and pecans, add cupful of candied orange peel cut fine. Do not beat, pour into a tube pan lined with greased paper and bake for three hours In a slow oven. Sour Cream Pie. Beat two eggs, add one cupful of sugar and beat again, then add ofle cupful of sour cream, one teaspoonful of cinnamon and teaspoonful of cloves, with a little salt; add one cupful of raisins which have been finely cut. 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