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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1916)
1J-J) THK OMAHA SUNDAY JJKK: FEBRUARY L'7. 1916. WHERE BROKERS' COMFORT IS SECURED Scene in the handsome barber shop con ducted in the Grain Exchange building. r t. star . c i. w .- i ft - 'J er : - , .5 : - ?. ' . . - - ', I M :,...-,.. ... fell 5 ' li .L,,,J J I -;... . . .. Hi :0LD KING CORN IS ON JOBJN OMAHA I Steady Strrtm of Golden Grain Touri Through City Durinj the Entire Year. ONE OF REAL WEALTH BRING ERS Ht off to Ktrif Corn, uniHputl jCcrval rulrr of the Otnahm drain r x chn and rtllnf In prod nr Ion all othr (ralna In th United Mate. I Thirty buahela of corn for every man, woman and child In thla nation wer j produced In IMS and the great bulk of I thla grew In tho fertile noil, beneath jtha bright ejnuhlne and the a-entlo raltia i of thla great mld-Weat territory of Ne ivaaka, Iowa, Kanaa, Mlaaourl, UMnola land Indiana. Mora than 1,000,000.000 Ixmheli old Kind (Corn poured In a colcW-n atream of ! 1th that fairly clogged up tha horn cf plenty. ' Jjn than one-third that many bualieU f wheat were produced In thla country. .King Corna allltatlva title la until 'pitted. Steady Mream Tkrsatk Omika. Tha Omaha Oraln exchange received t4.3K.30O buahela of com In 'the Omaha i market and ahlppod St.S42.10O buahela. There la a continual stream of corn In and out of Omaha pratlcally tha year 'round. It la chiefly of the white and i yellow varieties and of numerous grades, 'caretal Inspections of this great grain are made In the Omaha Oraln exchange e find Ita percentage of moisture and (ther characteristics which give It Ha class. There Is no Inspection department :jn thla line that stands higher than the m in connection with the grain ex change. Cora Vse nistery. Oarn Is generally thotifht to be a nv ,tlve of the United fttatea and Is called by some benighted people "malae" and j Indian com. But we know it aa plain "corn" just as we know gold as "gold." Some of these benighted people boast that they do not eat corn.-but feed It ;to their slock. It Is true that most of the European nations know not the de lights of norn bread. But even they have I learned something with the shipments , at . cornmeal to them during the war and Ring Corn's domain promises to be vsslly extended with spreading knowl edge aa was the domain of tha potato hen people discovered Its virtues. It wss cultivated by the Indians and (Columbus Is said to have carried the 'first grains back to Europe. It has spread lover Kurnpe to some extent and even Into jsla and Africa. Made 1st Meat. ' Most , of the corn that cornea through .the Omaha market Is used as a feed for 'live stock, thus being converted eventu- ally Into food for man. But there are many other uses to which tha king lends 'himself In the advancement and comfort of man. Kor example, nearly all the starch used In this country Is made 'from com. Ho a'ao Is most of the glu cose. . You can even have your good I old corn rob pipe as one of the by iProducts of this greet cereal. Great Is King Corn. Wheat Known to Farthest Antiquity; Many Legends as to Its Origin PARSONS COMPANY OF OMAHA ONE OF PIONEERS The Parsons Commlon company of Omaha, pioneer hay cmmlatilon firm, (las enlarged to do a general grain busi ness. Membership hss been acquired In the Omaha Oram exchange and head- Wlit Is the grain t,t civilisation. Ita cultivation Is lost In the mint a of time, aa the hlalory of man hlmaelf Is lost. It has supported roan's life throughout all lilatoiic time. In Kurope, the I site dwellers of Bwltxer land, or what la now 8wltserland, were growing wheat In the time of llomor. Itemaina of thla grain have been found. In Lombardy a similar kind of whoat was found burled among prehistoric re mnlns. In the pyramids of Kgypt and In the houees of I'ompell wheat kernels were found. Where did wheat oome from originally? That In a question on which archeolo glats differ. alenopotamla, the fertile valleys of the Tlurla and Kuphratea are mentioned as Its possible first seno of cultivation. ' In all tho ancient languages the word for whoat Is found "mal" In Chinese, "aumana" In r"ans-rlt, "br" In f.'gyptlan. In one of thoso bricks forming the pyra mid of Dashur In Kgvpt a grain of wheat was found. This pyramid was built about S.300 year before Christ, and the grain of wheat bore a strong resemblance to those found In the piles of the lake dwellings of the aboriginal Swiss. Can wheat stow wild! Thla Is a ques tion over which botanlcta have atrguad for yeara. There Is slight reason to boilers that wheat, as we understand the word, can grow and continue to grow without the benefits of cultivation. Botanists are generally agreed that though whest mny liave been found grow In apparently wild on land where cultivation was already known, such plants are only to bo considered aa re lapses, just as men who have broken away from civilised society 'and returned ivoluntarlly to savagery can be termv wild men In the true sense of tho worth . No Instances of wheat or any other of our modern cereals growing wild have been reported from really primitive lands. Universal experience has shown that wheat needs the constant service of man to keep It flourishing and producing. It seems to have been put on earth for the precise purpose of sustaining man, and where there) are no people to be sustained It does not grow. That the great ataff of human Ufa should have this peculiar characteristic is more than passingly re markable. The earliest literature of the moat an cient peoples contains legends of tho origin of wheat. The ancient Kgyptiantt spoko of Osiris, the Nile sod, bavin? taught the dwellers In the Nile vnllcy th use of the plow. Greek and Roman my thology are full of tales of gods descend ing! to earth to teach mortals the use of cereals. The Chinese hold that whoat was a direct gift from hoaven, and this ancient nation Is known to have oultlvated wheat aa long ago as 2,700 yeara before Christ. One of the ancient Chinese cuatoma which Is observed to this day Is the an nual plowing of several furrows by the emperor In person and the sowing of a few grains of wheat and rice. , quarters opened In the new Grain Ex change building, room lot The Parsons Commission company has handled hay exclusively on the commis sion basis for twenty-three years. It la the oldest Omaha concern In thla line and on of the most widely known In the state. The company will continue the hay business. N. Tarsons, founder and manager, will be In charge of both the hay and grain departments. . .. Merriam & Millard ' Company Well Known The Merriam aV Millard company is en gaged In the general merchandise of grain and handles all kinds and grades of grain raised In the territory tributary to the Omaha market This firm It In directly successor to a business estab lished In 1877, under the firm name of Illmebaugh V Merriam. This company also enjoy the distinc tion of owning and operating two termi nal elevators at Omaha, one on the Ne braska side of the Missouri river and the other on the Iowa aide. This arrange ment greatly facilitates the apeedy hand ling of grain, both In and outbound. Nathan Merriam, president, needs no Introduction to the grain men of the middle west. Engaged In the business since the early '70s he Is today one of the most active jnen on the floor of the Omaha Oraln exchange. As one of the members of the exchange said of him, "He Is the youngest old man In Omaha." Barton Millard, vloo president. Is one of the younger generation, having been connected with the grain trade eight or nine years. He Is also vice president of the Omeha Oraln exchange, and la one of the committee which had charge of lie financing and erecting of the new exchange building. Mr. Millard has served as a director of the exchange for sev. eral years. "AT .Kinder Has . Ware &Leland Wire Busy All Day Long ' A..y... Klnsler, who has been In the wholesale lumber and grain business In Omaha since 1X94. and Is a member of the Chics gu Board of Trade- and the Omaha Qraln exchange, has taken over the private wires of Ware' A Iceland, and I doing a commission -Business In grain, stocks, cotton and provisions at 777 to 7, in the new exchange building. Ware aV Ieland la one of the largest and beat known institutions In Chicago and New Tork. with nrlvate wires exs tending generally over the United Btatea and Into Canada. They are members of the New. York flock exchange and the principal gram exchangee of the country. . . Mr, Klnaler's office at Omaha has an exclusive direct and private wire con necting It with Ware Inland's Chi cago and New York office, and uesldeg having Instantaneoua quotations on the Chicago and other grain markets, has oomplete New York stock and cotton quotations and direct private wire con nections with Kansaa City, 8L Louis, Ktnneapolls, Duluth or Winnipeg;. Any Information in regard to any mar- ' Ll K-hnf hat ,r I n nmvliilnnfl itfw.li, n, ! cotton, will be gladly furnished If you write, wire, telephone ory call at Mr. Klnaler's offices. , . t '. BARBER SHOP UP TO DATE : IN ALL ITS APPOINTMENTS The barber shop In the Exchange build, lug Is owned end operated by C. Manning, who owns also the barber shop 1n the City National Bank building. It Is a large room facing on Nineteenth street and equipped with three chairs if the latest model. The ceiling la high and tha room Is light and airy. Finish ing Is In mahogany. , Grain Commission and Cash Grain OMAHA REPRESENTATIVE J. ROSENBAUM GRAIN CO. CHICAGO - ......... t R38 AND 639 OMAHA GRAIN EXCHANGE it. .7 i - -. I' i -ve ii'SIi T I I , ' i ? 1 1 V lis rn.'Z f a r. - - - ' ' - THE OMAHA STRUCTURAL STEEL WORKS . . ' . ' -..'.. signed a contract for the steel work on the Grain Exchange building on April 2, 1915. Between that date and July 5 we had the stel rolled in the Pittsburg district, shipped to Omaha, fabri cated it in our own shop, and erected it. ' , It Is the best time- record of any steel job in the city of Omaha, and is a splendid endorse ment of our organization and, our shop equipment. We can give you: the same' prompt,', efficient service,- and invite inquiries on any kind of Structural Steel, Ornamental Iron, i Bridges, : ' i : Reinforcing Rods Omalta r Stracttiral Stee Forty-eighth and Leavenworth Streets. :' z, rr.7777 Water Tanks and Towers, Storage Tanks, Sprinkler Tanks, w orks Omaha, Nebraska 1. 7 . .'.'...' 1.1 I t I v'... I : i i.. f . i ' ' i P"lii '. i. - ,"s',tll''l! - t 1 " K I i LJ I 8 1 ' ..-'- . .. , .. ; 'I piaNM w mm .- . j Hdm quMMepMof: Company Receivers and; Shippers of Grain 428-33 G rain Exchange Building