Although Iowa is famous in the United States for its large production of corn or maize, its production of oats is greater than that of any other state. Large crops of wheat, barley, and buckwheat are also produced on Iowa farms. One of the early car ferries crossed a wide river and was little more than a big raft pushed around by a tugboat.
Effective expression is dependent upon accuracy of word choice.
Accurate description is impossible in the absence of a wide choice of words from which the one word that is most appropriate may be selected. Veal, the meat of immature cattle, is more commonly eaten in Spain than is beef. Steel containing even less than one percent of molybdenum is remarkably hard and useful for making fine cutting tools. When molten lava cools, it hardens, and the material thus formed is known as volcanic rock. Although active volcanoes are no longer found in Idaho, volcanic rock covers a large area in that state.