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News from Garfield Farm |
On Sunday, September 28 at 2 P.M., museum volunteer,
Chuck Bauer, will give a lecture on the history of corn. There will be
discussion of the type used in the 1840s and how farmers manipulated
corn to create the variety we have today.
In the early nineteenth century, was a staple of
people’s diets, as well as their livestock. Not only were the
corn kernels edible, other parts of the stalk, husk, and the cob, all
had several uses, as well.
Mr. Bauer was a polymer scientist/engineer at Amoco
Chemicals for 31 years. With the modern day application of corn in so
many products as well as a gasoline substitute, Bauer's perspective is
quite broad. Growing up in north central Ohio, Mr. Bauer always
had an interest in farming and animals. Chuck took a special interest
in corn while demonstrating the Garfield’s corn sheller at one of
the museum’s Harvest Days events. He has grown several varieties
of corn, including pod corn.
There is a $5 donation for the talk and
refreshments. For more information call the museum at (630) 584-8485,
or email at info@garfieldfarm.org. Garfield Farm Museum is located 5
miles west of Geneva, IL, off of ILL Rt. 38 on Garfield Road. The
370-acre site is a historically intact former 1840s farm and teamster
inn being restored as an 1840s working farm museum by volunteers and
donors from around the country.