Several of our contemporaries appear to be greatly troubled because
the farmers are burning " corn " in Iowa, finding it cheaper than wood. The Standard recently hoped such a people would not be punished by some calamity, and even the Daily News writes in an accent of regret. Both seem to forget that " corn " in America does not mean wheat, but maize, which is not eaten here by men in any quantity, and three-fourths of which is only fit for burning. Asfar as we are concerned, it is fodder rather than food which they are burning in Iowa, where, by the way, the
clearances must have been of the most reckless kind, to make wood so dear. Wheat used to be burnt in the Punjab in enormous quantities merely to get rid of it, as it would not bear the ocean transit, but we have not heard of a case of the kind for years.
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