New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1920, Page 11

% ons, each containin; L Z#the art of pottery making W « ix “ Second Sectzon == NEW BRITAIN HERALD. Pages 1A to A —- NEW. BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, MARCH CORN HAS HISTORY GREAT AS COUNTRY Staple Crop Plays Big Part in & Civilization shville, Tenn., March nesce a stalk of corn grown measuring 22 feet 4 Teight, the tallest recorded corn plant. (his was one of some 900.000,000,000 #hills planted to corn in 1918, the greatest acreage that this or any other country in the history of the world ev planted to any crop. the 1915 crop was approximately great. Crop reports show that 100,000,000 acres were in corn with a vield 3.000,000,000 stupendqus magnitude of may be imagined when one “3f it had been loaded on 20-foot v has inches in one And 1S over bushels. this of yield that 50 bushels, i wagons, placed end to end, would The | Y i | i | | moun i ' i » have reached nine and one-half times around the world—a distance of 230,- 000 miles. Corn | part in the ways ployed a most important role in Tall American from the very earliest days. the Jof Washington's soldiers during seight years of the revolutian, and the civil war the south could nat have sustained itself without _JIndeed, from the very carliest he history of Indian corn in Ame .18 a true romance. Columbus, writing “to King dinand and Queen Isabelia §in 1498, mentioned corn fields in the _new-found America which were 18 miles long. The Indian vills of Hochelaga, which later becime Mon- ireal, was surrounded by large corn field De Soto also found extensive acreages planted to corn in Illinoi We have been apt ta think of the In- adian corn fields as comprising a few rows of inflifferent corn, crudely tivated and of little consequence. a matter of fact, corn was of enor- mous impartance to the Tadis one end of the United Stutes to the other, and that the Indian corn flelds yere destroyed in 1685 by x fim English in New York ghown by the fact that according to ilitary reports 1,200,000 ac of ‘arh belonging to the Sene Ind by the English in New Y York nd further. that s later invaded the Jaon- n country in New York, with his soldiers in corn fields its highly portant but ayved great war; it has al- wars mainstay the in Corn was a vear ga Tndi: éy\é thre Jestroving their e Largest Crop of AlL {a affecting the various Indian civ- ns throughout the United States as the most potent of any fac- m Maine to Florida and from o to the arid far eat bulk of the thousands of tribes had their corn ( they were all hunters vory wandering nomads. The Defal conception that the American difn was almost exclusively & meat ifer is decidedly wrong. Almost re corn cate Thi 3 ivation of corn brought s into communities, d territories of “hunting grounds’ T the different races and nations. 'orn undoubtedly came originally ?pomnu south, probably from Moxico ind with it the Indians brought north 1 basket eaving. The planting, growing and ‘harvesting of the corn wa ‘terwoven with the rites and syml of the Indian’s religsion—those of nadian north, where prayer keep away the frost, and th bot and arid southwest. where # “Those Above” must be invoked for water for irrigation. Longfellov Hiawatha embodies the most ful poetic recognition of the mysticism surrounding the growing s; but the stary of H ftha was no mere of the poet, Yas many people imagine. Longfellow S Simply pit to beautiful verse the stor ¢ 1 in its every detail to thousands an families and tribes even to zen the In- closely ol mu of the Indian Today, neither in acreaze nor value, Ge'wheat or any other p compare avith' corn. During the last 10 3 “#hef acreage planted in corn in “WEnfted States was greater by Tombincd acicuges of vheat, LR RERAS the value of the crop + greater than the 1l the great stap) Like no other important crop, iy grown in every stite in the fon. And yet, impossible as it is ay to et alung without corn, as ard as a producer of beef, por @tion, chickens, lard, butter. and fen other necc ties, it is no more portant than it was in the carly W's of strugg America. The lists would literally h arved bath without it. They got from jendly Indic and be n ne it fmediately very man ant Bhn Smith's W was siven an acy land and instructed to plant it. It soon bocame medium o JegXchange amons e colonists. Taxes gent and debts were paid in corn. and were purchased with it the cost of their transporii- an the rye, and was n eng flax: i ymbined ve s n Developed Tr Y Fven as corn today filuuu' across the cont glays bf the Indians nrl ‘white pioneers, it developcd the ,,.m ing spirit. The corn of the Huron Indians of New York was bartered for din, , orted carn. | times | cui- ! As | | fore, ns from | !eitic, | sota, | substanc ns | tles i missing hills in i southwest. | elds, and | 1 al | 7ith well de- | the | selves of beauti- | morrow, { even e | used from ! bar- | i the ! or ! deer col- § ! protected and conc corn | ¢ | w food | ‘oot in Missouri valley with the white ex- and thus enabled tural Indian tvl traided their ma plorers and pioneer. the latter to ca out their explora- tions: they also traded with the hunt- ing tribes of the plains, securing fur and hers and weapons. To the plains Indiuns the acquisition of corn meant the prevention of famine in the lean ye when the buffalo and other game were searce. A huffalo robe >d to be given in exchange for * of corn, of about 50 ea oux Indi Lewis and Clark (he famous nt out by Presilent Jo igate the ccuntr f the pins and bey ted they would never have heen able to ‘zet through™ without the food, prin- cipally m obtained from the In- n villag There is greater var The Indians main types of corn, the flour corns. raised mainly for and the flour carn, be archy ¢ cter, wa sround in the eride stone mortars and made into cakes, soups, pude and corn bread. A peculiar of the primitive In as their great variation in colovin There was red n. and pink corn. and blue and sal- n colored, white tipped with black and iczated or mixed ear: all of these colors being found in both flint and flour corns. many kinds of corn passed out of cul- tivation. It is true that white men Lave evolved over a hundred new varietios and from these “firs! corns:” but U varieties ar still planted ye year, even to the present. erson to Rocky that n p plant which shows on than Indian corn. themselves grew the tlint corns and tlint corn was making hominy ~au mo ellow up Sacred Mystery of Indians, The Indinns, southwest, are still persistent corn caters. and thousunds of them yet be- lieve as did their forefathers behind them, in the sacred mystery of the routing and growing corn. ame corn is raised today by the Mo- qui and Hopi Indians that is occasi lly found buried along with potter. nd crude implenients, in the d ge-old dust of some ancient cl dwelling where no man's foot tallen for a thot Our Department Washington urge @ ers to t their seed cory obviou Lad practice to plant anything except the best and strongest d. Yet whe the pilgrims landed and for ages b the brown native American corn from the A to the Pa- practiced metl ced test- ing which were as s those which science now ests. Minne- Florida and Louisiana tribes, to moss was convenient, used {his ination medium. s made soft fiber mats, Middle Western tribes used wood exactl 5 what seed germinator, were rolled up into a bundle with the corn kernels and immersed in watc After soak- ing fo day they were wrapped in buffald hide and kept warm until the sced sprouted. The Indian took no ces on poor seed and he had s patch. Also Uncle Sam tells us to ¢ sclect our seed corn. In this he has nothing on the early American farm- of nd years ago. The In- ans practiced sced selection and had nite standar Many tribes dis- carded the butts and the tips, plant- ing only the middle portions of r. Some threw out cobs with ular rows and many tribes had tt really advanced idea of selecting ear in the field from the stalk where the zrowth of the plant well a appearance of the ear itself was into consideration. The sre as taken to preserve the ensuing planting. There were no seed stores available in case your own sup- ply spoiled and the Indians went to the greatest lengths to insure them- a supply. Nailin; The American been spoken of individual month and with and then month, This is a truth. Of course, starvation i but there of rulture since rowe antic of “tive oft whom as a ger Other tri while th The nettle now “rag-doll” called The net- evlindri inside advocutes is n I Indian has a daring yet shifi- living in plenty one no thought of the starving the next long w v from the great suffering and occurred in *“lean” is starvation tod:ay, vear, among intelligent whitc people. As an invariable rule, the Indians looked to the future and pro vided for it to the very best of their abili The Indians of the North- eastern and Midd Western states the aiche for storin, corn, that for seed. These caches holes dug in the ground six or seven feet deep. The cornficlds were the lower land but the che were on the higher ground to avoid ter seepage, and frequently tho. inside the wigwams tepees. you have ever tried dig & hole, even with a good will recognize that, considering Indians’ rude tools, the digging of cache was no sm 1 jo Braided shelled placed in buffalo or skin s or bags of cecdar or birch bark stored in the cacha, ch was carcfully lined with or bark. ¢ 1 finally the cache was raled with a heavy And to guard against contingency s have (wo or threo ibes of the southwe: > their roofs of their sonthwestern storage ets were 10 to 15 high poles or 5 The Indians’ methods of planting were little different from thosc of the white farmers of today. They planted hills ubout the regulation distance, Toss every on or 10 [ vou a corn sac was cov and every would The t seldo the (a3} used Some of the corn-crib. holding nd erected on -topped s of large orn on the bask ac busl in fllbtk:xlo( the Canadas. The agricul- except that i the Gelds -of the souths | explor- | | two | <c of its soft, | The | the | eed for the ! usually ! es- . | founad { and cultivated these present-day el COLUMBIA GERMANTOWN YARNE Four fold, all colors. price 70c ball. 2 Ba WOMEN'S FIBRE | Round Ticket brand, all colors exce] ! ing white and black. price 89¢ pair. LONG | 36 inches wide. | 35¢ yard. ! 4 Yards CLOTH Our regular SILK HOSE. price $1.00 |Dollar Day Means Genuine Values pt- Our regular $1.00 do not claim to do it. cvery day selling —and w regular ties because we do not advocate Buy Only Such of These Specials that You Are in | Basement Housefurnishing Dept. i ! | Nor have these | cspecially those of the | 4 qt. Convex Pots and with cover. 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The corn w: helled and parched slowly in the embers of the wood fire. Then it was thrown into a stone mortar, maple suzar added. and it was pound- od and sifted until it Dried cherries or ber Le added. This meal made or cakes not to be desp -corn nd heans— the New land and The Hopi Indian southwest ad ferent kin corn foods, YT ovariet almost. tandb: as follows: were thoroushly heated with burning ! and wood, filled with roasting ears, tightly clesed for a day or more. w W tinc corn br Succotas aple dish middlo of ed with the of b uite the e pits not Gt of uvl And Skirts of fine Mu Our Kleinert's make, of pure gum sizes 1 to 6. n with embroidery a regular and L .e 3fur$loo Silk trimmed 3 for Size 5 e $1.0 $1.0 w $1.0 Cloth n Navajo and dark $1.69 the W when | feast’ The stor story of the race for food phere. It was the food original Americans, i with the white in a corn surplus sent to the West \m o in exel it pit s held. s es o in the colonis whi ind meat world ha indust } tons of from e dai corn ta the took irom i E'\,«A.L sut, weste “h corn f the h rn crop popy| late ind to ei 1 to no! ntines Lim a¥ ol