. Corn book for young folk. Corn. CORN BOOK FOR YOUNG FOLK idea of the greatness of the amount. Our minds cannot without aid form a picture of so many bushels. But suppose our nation should undertake to haul these bushels in two-horse wagons. If the drivers put 40 bushels in each wagon, the train of wagons would stretch out in an unbroken line for 426,000 miles. One hundred and fifty million horses w^ould be needed to draw^ the wagons. This is about seven and a half times as many horses and mules as we have in the United States. Suppose that each team could be given wings and could fly through
. Corn book for young folk. Corn. CORN BOOK FOR YOUNG FOLK idea of the greatness of the amount. Our minds cannot without aid form a picture of so many bushels. But suppose our nation should undertake to haul these bushels in two-horse wagons. If the drivers put 40 bushels in each wagon, the train of wagons would stretch out in an unbroken line for 426,000 miles. One hundred and fifty million horses w^ould be needed to draw^ the wagons. This is about seven and a half times as many horses and mules as we have in the United States. Suppose that each team could be given wings and could fly through the 240,000 miles between the earth and the moon. When the last wagon of the long train left the earth, the first wagon would be three fourths of the way back to the starting point. If these wagons were piled one on the other, the}^ would make a tower over 71,000 miles in Fig. I. Our Greatest Cereal. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Williams, Charles Burgess, 1871-; Hill, Daniel Harvey, 1859-1924, joint author. Boston, Ginn
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