. The Utah Farmer : Devoted to Agriculture in the Rocky Mountain Region. that reason it adapts itself readilyto new conditons, responds quickly togood treatment, and gives better re-turns for the efforts put into it thanany other crop that grows. Upon the great fundamental lawthat like produces like, rests all hu-man progress. That poor seedmeans a poor crop no one will ques-tion; but it is not so fully recognizedthat unless great pains be taken toplant only the best seed, the crop willgradually deteriorate, or run out, aswe often say. Corn has been taught, talked,preached, printed, painted, d
. The Utah Farmer : Devoted to Agriculture in the Rocky Mountain Region. that reason it adapts itself readilyto new conditons, responds quickly togood treatment, and gives better re-turns for the efforts put into it thanany other crop that grows. Upon the great fundamental lawthat like produces like, rests all hu-man progress. That poor seedmeans a poor crop no one will ques-tion; but it is not so fully recognizedthat unless great pains be taken toplant only the best seed, the crop willgradually deteriorate, or run out, aswe often say. Corn has been taught, talked,preached, printed, painted, demon-strated and advertised in every agri-cultural country of the world. Thou- sumption of homegrown corn, to-gether with improved methods of cul-tivation and the organization of boyscorn clubs, etc. NO MONEY FOR POETRY. You see, said The country editor,I have printed your poem. Thank you, responded the suppose I shall receive remunera-tion according to your usual tariff. Tariff. My good man, poetry ison the free list. CORN PRODUCTION in lUe UNITED STATES1 914. ed to more than 3,500,000,000 bush-els, grown on 170,000,000 acres o!land. The United States producedtwo thirds of this tremendous 1866, forty-nine years ago, cornbrought the American farmers $411,, and for forty-nine years sincethat time, corn has steadily increasedin acreage and value, never once fall-ing below the figures given. Corn is grown in nearly every, sec-tion of the United Slates. Th? great-er part of crop however is grown inthe central states as shown by themap. The annual corn crop exceeds cottonby nearly a dollars. In cotton crop of the United Statesbrought in a total of $800,000 000; thehay crop, $797,000,000; the wheat crop1610,000,000; the oats crop, $,000. Iowa and Illinois each put inabout acres annually tocorn, each producing from 300,000,000lo ,000 bushels. Although we produce such a greatcrop ot corn we importpd in 191. milion bushels
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