People often wonder, particularly those who have travelled for hundreds of miles through the corn belt, what becomes of the corn which is grown every year. In the year 1308, when the total crop was 2,666,000.000 Bushels, 241,000,000* bushels -were consumed in flour and grist mill products, 8,000,000 bushels in tie manufacture of starch, 9,000,000 bushels for malt liquors, 17,000,000 bushels in the production of distilled liquors, 40,000,000 bushels for glucose, 190,000,000 bushels for export, ana 13,000,000 bushels for seed, making a total of 518,000,000 bushels, or 19.3 ( per cent. of the entire crop. The remaining 80.7 per cent., or 2,118,000,000 bushels, seems to have been used almost entirely for feeding. — Cprn Reporter. Become strong by taking Ph6sphol Emulsion. The sure«t cure for all chest complaint*.— AdVfc.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19090508.2.154.1
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 15
Word Count
127Page 15 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.