The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and ... use and commerce of the world's greatest crop
Herbert Myrick
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 10, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... there can exist no vestige of regret that at length the southern public has awakened from its lethargy and is now keenly alive to the fact that there is a saving alternative. The New Way--Light out of darkness is due to the advent of the corn shredder. Its mission has just begun, but the beginning is good and its future progress will be sweeping, complete, triumphant. It is impossible, whatever the connection, to ignore the value of the shredder, the part it bears and the work it is doing, and has to do, as a factor in the progress and advancement of southern agriculture. While the silo has accomplished much, the shredder is destined to effect even more. Its importance cannot be overestimated, for it is revolutionizing quietly, but effectually, an enormous industry in a dozen commonwealths. What it means in one state, alone, of the twelve, and for one season, let the following statement of Director R. J. Redding, of the Georgia experiment station, attest: After showing (in bulletin 39) the average proportion of shredded corn hay to the bushel of grain to be ninety pounds, and of naked stalks about forty-two pounds, or twenty-eight hundred pounds of corn hay (of which thirteen hundred pounds is supplied by the stalks) to every thirty-one bushels of grain, the average yield per acre of the particular crop tested, Director Redding says: "This 1300 pounds represents the food loss for every 31 bushels of shelled corn. The corn crop of Georgia, for convenience, may be stated at 31,000,000 bushels, sometimes less, often more. Then, at 1300 pounds of corn hay, heretofore not saved, for every 31 bushels of corn, the total loss in the state would be 1300X1,000,000=1,300,000,000 (thirteen hundred millions of pounds), or 650,000 tons of corn hay. This is a very g...