. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . duction there is cracked or dusted out afine grainless powder, almost pure starch, that findsa market for special purposes in the confectioneryand fine baking trade. Glucose—An industry which has become one ofenormous proportions is the manufacture of glucoseand kindred products. This belongs to the divisionof products the result of chemica
. The book of corn; a complete treatise upon the culture, marketing and uses of maize in America and elsewhere, for farmers, dealers, manufacturers and others--a comprehensive manual upon the production, sale, use and commerce of the world's greatest crop . duction there is cracked or dusted out afine grainless powder, almost pure starch, that findsa market for special purposes in the confectioneryand fine baking trade. Glucose—An industry which has become one ofenormous proportions is the manufacture of glucoseand kindred products. This belongs to the divisionof products the result of chemical process. Probablymore than sixty million bushels per annum are nowconsumed by the glucose factories, and the industry isgrowing rapidly. Thirty or more separate commercialproducts, for which a permanent market has beenestablished, are now made. Glucose is made in variousgrades of density, each for a specific purpose, thelargest use being in the manufacture of table syrupsand of confectionery. Other products are dextrin andgums for sizing doth and especially as a medium for NEW USES OF CORN 319 carrying colors in cloth printing. Various grades ofstarches, from edible to laundry, are also products may be regarded as the principal or. Fig 94—Ear of Smutted Corn This ear is affected with smut only at the tip where it was imperfectlycovered by the husks. From photograph loaned by the Indiana experimentStation. original products of the glucose works, but there area long line of by-products of large commercial and 320 THE BOOK OF CORN economic value. The principal of these are corn oiland oil cake, oil cake meal; various grades of cattlefeed in the shape of gluten feed, bran, etc. Cornstalks in Mechanic Arts—Another line ofproducts in which exploitation is just beginning issecured by a complete utilization of cornstalks. Thefull economic possibility of the stalk is not yet under-stood, but practical experience to some extent andlaboratory experiments still furth
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