Cornimit
a by-product, obtained in the treatment of fish offal by a secret process process originating in Denmark. It is claimed that by this process a highgrade oil and a fertilizer are also produced. duced. Cornimit can be used as an electrical insulating material, and in the manufacture of such articles as combs, door-handles, telephone receivers , etc.
The material is considered to be a satisfactory substitute for galalith, which is an artificial product make from milk casein.
CORN, INDIAN, also known as MAIZE, a genus of grasses having monœcious genus of grasses having monecious flowers; flowers; the male flowers forming a loose at the top of the culm; the female flowers in axillary spikes, large, tough spathes, from which only es, inclosed in the extremely long styles hang out like from which only tufts of feathers or silken tassels. The Common Indian Corn is generally be- CORN LAWS lieved to be a native of the warmer parts of America, where it was cultivated by before the discovery by Columbus; but the discovery of grain in ancient houses in Athens have led some to suppose that it is a native also of the East, and from a very early period has been cultivated there, and even that it is the "corn" of Scripture. On this supposition it is not easy to account for the subsequent neglect of it until after the discovery of America, since which its cul- Old World. Columbus himself took it to tivation spread rapidly throughout the Spain. tries of the world are the Argentine Re- The principal corn-producing counpublic, Canada, Egypt, Italy , Rumania, Russia, the United States , and Uruguay. sia, and Bulgaria were among the large Prior to the World War Hungary , Rusproducers of corn. corn in the United States in the calendar The production of year 1920 was 3,232,367,000 bushels, from 104,601,000 acres. The States hav- Illinois, Nebraska, and Missouri. For ing the largest production were Iowa, table showing the acreage, production, and value of this crop in the United States by States, see AGRICULTURE.
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