The Columbus journal., 1889-09-25
Verify o n King"

The corn belt in America, that Is, that
portion where corn thrives and the big
gest crops are raised, is a country that
cannot be excelled on earth, for general
purposes.
The reasons for this are not far to seek.
The cities and towns, with all their null
hilarious industries and enterprises rest
upon agriculture as upon q foundation;
they are nearer still, as trees which take
root, grow, flourish, and are maintained
because they draw from the soil. In the
corn belt crops Of all kinds average we'll
with the years, but corn, the king Of all,
is pretty sure to do well; the great GER
tainty of having plenty Of corn makes
the raising Of cattle, hogs, sheep and
poultry profitable, when anything is 90.
II all other crops should, for any reason,
fail, land they seem to have more
enemies than corn hasl with plenty Of
corn, the farmer can subsist his family
and all his live stock, 80 that the funny
man" who wrote the following might
have extended his remarks without do
ing violence to the situation in any Of
the states in the corn belt, and notably
IN Iowa and Nebraska:
ut seems that one day last fall q gen.
tleman had occasion to i. make q trip
through the country in Iowa, and being
belated and rain coming on, he stopped
at q comfortable looking farm house and
applied for lodging for himself and
horse, which was readily granted. He
states that the place was surrounded by
fields Of ripened corn, and his horse was
stabbed in q shed matched with corn
stalks, and that the animal was supplied
With cornfodder in lieu OF hay, given q
dozen large ears Of corn, and bedded
with cornblades, after which the farmer
led the way to the house, which, though
q large and even elegant building, was
decorated on the south side from corner
stone to cornice with ears Of corn de-
signed for seed. He wiped his feet ut
the door on a mat skillfully woven OF
corn huske. Supper, he says, consisted
OF milk and corn meal mush, which last
article was prepared over q fire Of corn
cobs. After supper the host sat in q
corner and smoked Q corn cob pipe and
discussed the possibilities OF q corner on
corn, in q very Cornish accent, whilst
the children RECALLED them with music
from q cornstalk fiddle and played fox
and geese with red and white corn. He
further alleges that the fox was inevita-
bly, "cofnered." That night be slept on
. corn husk mattress in q room decorat-
ed with . variety Of corn and ut breakfast
he ate, among other delicaciee, corn
bread and glucose manufactured from
cornl and drank coffee which he could
swear had been ad~ulterated with scorch-
ed corn. It developed that his host wa
q native OF Cornwall and that his name
vas Cornwall, that OF his wife Cornelia,
whilst his two little boys were appropri-
stely named Cornelius and CORVALLIS.
As q sequal to the story he relates that
the farmer took him to the barn, and
drawing . corn cob from the little brown
jug, gave him . drink of q very superior
article made Of 'corn juice Uuon in
curing his way when he left the premis-
IL the gentleman says he was not ut al
surprised when the farmer pointed out
the road with q cornstalk walking stick.
removed the aforesaid corn cob pine from
his mouth and informed him that the
nearest village wa Corning. He con-
clueds by saying that be felt that be had
been e6ectually 'corned.'"