Morgan County republican., 1912-11-21

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from pickaninny to gray-haired
Uncle Remus. There are Canadians
and Scotch, Irish and German, Swis.
and Italian, Dane and Russian
adopted into the Missouri family from
every nation under the SUI. As
Missouri has sent her children into all
the world, peopled the west from her
pioneer homes, so she has gathered
around her table descendants of every
kindred and tribe and nation.
The Thanksgiving dinner must be
great one for sucha company of
children assembled in the old home.
1t includes the harvest of a whole
year. There could be IoI,447,sos
dozen eggs, the contribution of the
barnyard, WHARF 20, 900 900 chickens.
A turkey for each family-and more
If any family has no turkey it is some
other family's fault. Some of the
children prefer pork even on the day
when King Turkey reigns. So there
are a,88S,349 pigs of all sizes, Berk-
shire, Poland-China, Duroc-Jersey.
to furnish sauage, head-cheese, bacon,
chine, spare-ribs--the multifarious
hog. II bread is the staff of life,
milk is its cradle. Drive up the L.
I65,203 milch cows-why call them
milchr-and there is cream golden
glorious for pie and pudding and peo-
pie, in this state flowing in milk and
honey. Lamb chops from 8so,I7s
sheep may be on the table-the silly
sheep which afford in its own person
both food and raiment, having which,
twas tent-maker's sage advice,
let us be Herewith content. But
Missouri has other cattle for steak,
sirloin tenderloin and rouud. For the
bread there are I3,839,o3a bushels.
of wheat 9,93I,866 bushels of corn
II buckwheat cakes are dcsired-let
US continue to quotefrom the figures OF
surplus shipments of the Missouri
State Bureau of Labor statistics -ther
are bushels OF buckwheat enough too
make supply sufficient for every boy
and girl from Kahoka to Crackers
Neck. Down in the cellar are stored
half million bushels of sweet potatoes;
millions of bushels of apples, from
Ben Divis-which everybody sells
and nobody eats-to the Missouri
Pippin, with cheek as rosy as a girls
in counting time. Nor is this all for
dinner and dessert. The cupboard
has jellies and preserves in cans and
jars and glasses from gag, Io4 baskets
peaches, 4,Ios basket Of plums, s43,
I79 crates Of strawberrles---than wich
God, the chief Nurseryman, might
have made better berry, but he
never did--and watermelon preserves
from the rinds from I,sos,I36
watermelons. 10 catalogue all Miss
ouri's annual menu may display would
require book instead of a magazine
article. The bill of fare stretches
out. Seed-time and harvest have not
ceased. And if after dinner there
are some unreconstructed Missourians
who wish quiet smoke, there is the
Missouri meerschaum, world-famous,
and 6,6s3, 900 pounds of tobacco as
as an annual surplus crop.
| II the Missourian wishes other
material reason than the Thanks
giving for rejoicing, he may find in
his coal bin s,3S3,39o tons Of coal,
worth more than as many million dol
lars. The lead ana zinc he digged
from underground sold for over four
teen million dollars. And in this
three-story state, with wealth above
and on and below the level OF the
earth there has been scarce a scratch
. upon the surface. For material pros
| ,,a r;tv tha u,oo and so 70 ha p.o;,.