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Increased Canadian and European wheat crops, as well as the mishaps attending our own winter wheat this year, will render 1925 a much less profitable year to wheat growers than 1924. Yet a mammoth corn crop is now apparently under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival...
Altogether, some 146 articles are made from the corn plant, including axle grease, face powder, shoe heels, cigaret holders, gunpowder, incense, phonograph records, shaving soap, shoe horns, varnish...
...corn crop is greater in value than any other grown in this country. About 40% is fed to swine on the farms, while horses get 20% and cattle about 15%. Of the remaining 25%, humans consume about...
...Corn stalks are extensively used for ensilage and feed for animals. From the corn cob is extracted a synthetic resin which is extensively used in making telephone receivers, pipe stems, electrical equipment formerly made of hard rubber, buttons, glue and similar objects...
Even lumber can be made out of corn cobs, where high tensile strength is not required. The weight of this synthetic lumber is about that of the lighter woods, and it can be worked by regular woodworking tools. It has been found a successful substitute for even birch wood in making spools, as well as in making picture frames, moldings and wall boards...