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There is an old Chicago adage to the effect that the corn crop walks to market on four legs-referring to the fact that most of our U.S. corn is regularly fed to hogs and other livestock. Last year, the corn crop was distributed as follows: Livestock. 2,550,000,000 bu.: food. 100,000,000 bu.: industry, 75,000,000 bu.; exports, 21,000,000 bu.; seed, 20,000,000 bu.; and miscellaneous, 155,000,000 bu. As the above figures indicate, practically the entire output is consumed at home. This year, corn, almost alone among our staple cereals...
...divine, the result hardly justifies such a high origin. So far the revelations from above have merely led him to discover hundreds of commercial compounds made from the lowly potato, the peanut, and the clay of the South. The prayer of the South to have the monotony of corn pone and "side of hawg" replaced by more palatable dishes is being answered through the black magic of Dr. Carver; and if that is not divine it is at least commendable...
This announcement was made last night by the United States Bureau of Entymology in a letter to Major F. W. Moore '92, Graduate Treasurer of the Athletic Association. Certain areas have been quarantined on account of a pestilence of European Corn borers, and New Haven is outside the quarantined district. Federal and State agents will be on hand to enforce the regulations against all of the above flowers that have not been inspected by a florist and certified as perfectly harmless...
...desires of farmers was gained at first hand?in the days when his father took to the soil in Adair County, Iowa, and later when, as a youth of 20, he was obliged to interrupt his course at the Agricultural College, at Ames, and put in five years raising corn and hogs on one of his father's tenantless farms...
...himself to the task of inducing the indurate soil to yield him his livelihood. His experiments and solutions he then reported in articles for farm journals in Iowa and Illinois; and it was these writings that paved his way to greater things than struggling to support a wife with corn at 10c and 15c a bushel and hogs at 2 3/4c a pound...