Mexico weekly ledger., 1911-03-02
WHAT DO YOU
KNOW ABOUT
GEOGRAPHY
WERE you AWARE THAT NEW
YORK LED IN THE PRODUCTION
OF HAy5-susiNEss MEN WEIR
SURPRISED AT THEIR IcNoR-
ANcE ABOUT AGRICULTURE
Simple Question With Unexpected
Answers What do you Know
about Your own cOuntry's Asricul-
tural Results. /.

1t sounded like a class In geogra-
by. but Il wasn't. -Four business
men awaited the return OF a fifth
who had gone 20 luncheon. On his
desk lay a pamphlet entitled "AgrLcui
tural Graphics,s recently issued by
The government. One man picked It
up.
John" he said, as he glanced
through tine pamphlet, "What state
in the Uniou raises the most hay?'
Kansas" promptly answered John,
a X. U. graduate.
Wrong, by several hundred
miles. New York is the hay state.
Now, can anyone in the class tell
me which Is the real corn state?
You keep quiet. John. you are preju-
diced"
"~lllinois. l believe" a small man
who wore glasses, said.
An Easy One for the kansan.
Right. Illinois is first in corn.
Iowa Is first in oats. Here's an
easy one. Which state ra'sas the,
most wheat?"
John. the K. U. man, made another
attempt.
JPN bet I'm right on thai" he
said. Kansas has II on them all for
wheat, They teach US that when
we learn to read and write"
'You are correct" the interrogation
said. Let's try this one. Where do
the largest sweet potato crops come
from?
There was instantaneous silence
among the amateur commercial geog-
raphers. No one knew.
III it were Irish potatoes / would
guess Ireland" the only badheaded
man in the office remarked. You'll
have to pass to the next, though,
on the sweet poteto question"
Here's One on ireland.
III you guessed Ireland for Irish
potatoes, you would be wrong even
at that" the man with the book
said. Germany is the country which
leads IN Irish potatoes. New York
raises more OF them than any other
state in this country. But to re-
turn to the original questIon-North
Carolina produces the banner sweet
potato crops"
Habit Guided a Few Answers.
"The United States grows the most
tobacco. Its annual crop Is sos mil
Hon pounds. British India is second
with 45O million pounds and the
other countries are way down in the
list.''
What country raises the most cot.
.ton?"
"The United States was the an
sTver Of the whole group i'm one
voice.
Correct You all may go to the
head of the class
Now, what country leads in
wheat?"
"The limited States"
"Rdght you are again. And what
country leads IN corn?"
"The United States"
"Aal correct once more. Now how
about cane sugar."
The United States answer had be-
come a habit, and everyone ~chorused,
"nhe United States"
Which leads me to say that you
are unanimously wrong and don't
know so much about these things af-
ter an" the leader said. British
India produces the most cane sugar
with an annual yield of 1895. 900
tons. The United States produces onl
1,216, 900 tons a year"
"To get to things more familiar,
what country produces the most
mules?"
''The United States, of course, Is
not Missouri in this country"
81 don't know whether it's Mis-
sourfs fault or not, but this is the
foremost mule--producing country,
How about the horses.?"
THE United States" was the am
swer again.
Nov. that's wrong the leader
said. Russia produces the most
horses. British India produces the
most cattle. The United States
stands at the top In sheep and swine.
India comes forward once more with
the record for the largest goat crop"
The book was laid away and the
class adjourned when the time to re-
sumo work In the office arrived.
Agricultural Graphics' contains
authentic figures ON the production
of animal and vegetable crops m all
the states Of the United States and in
all the countries of the world which
tabulate such figures. The book
was prepared by Middleton Smith of
the bureau of statistics"