Cornimit

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a by-product, obtained in treatment of the fish offal by a secret process originating in Denmark. It is claimed that by this process a highgrade oil and a fertilizer are also produced. 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, genus of a grasses having monecious flowers; the male flowers forming a loose panicle at the top of the culm; the female flowers in axillary spikes, large, tough es, inclosed in spathes, fro the extremely long styles hang out like from which only tufts of feathers or silken tassels. The Common Indian Corn is generally believed to be a native of the warmer parts of America , where it was cultivated by the aborigines 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 cultivation spread rapidly throughout Old World. Columbus himself took it to the Spain. The principal corn-producing tries of the world are the Argentine Recounpublic, Canada, Egypt, Italy , Rumania, Russia, the United States , and Uruguay. Prior to the World War Hungary sia, and Bulgaria were among the large , Rusproducers of corn. The production corn in the United States in the calendar of year 1920 was 3,232,367,000 bushels, from 104,601,000 acres. The States having the Illinois, Nebraska, and Missouri. For largest production were Iowa, table showing the acreage, production, and value of this crop in the United States by States, see AGRICULTURE.