The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-11
But Nation is Not Aware OF This
Fact and Fruit From Other
States is to be Found
Easiest
IOWA HEN ALSO LEADS
Horses Out Value Cotton Crop That
So Much is t-eard About-Farm
Values Also on the
Increase.

IUCTCdSSs
CLINTON, Ia, Dec. 11.-Here is
remarkable story sent ont by the
headquarters of the Greater Iowa as
ISOLATION:
Il have been in most all of the
larger towns of Iowa within the past
thirty days and wherever / have had
opportunity have gone into the gro
Gerry stores and made inquiry for
Iowa apples. In only two towns have
been able to find Iowa eating apples
On display. I have found hundreds OF
cases OF apples from Idaho. oregon
and Washington and some from New
York state And so get to wonder
ing how Iowa compared as an apple
state with those greatly advertised
apple states of the northwest. l dis
covered something that will be of in
terest to you. know.
For the ten-year period from 1900
to 1910. idaho raised six hundred and
ten thousand dollars worth of apples
every year; Oregon one million six
hundred thousand dollars worth;
Washington, two million nine hundred
thousand dollars worth. And poor Ole
Iowa, not really an apple state, ra sed
three million FIVE hundred thousand
dollars worth per annum. In other
words. Iowa raises more apple seyery
year than Washington and Idaho COM
bined, Or than Oragon AMI Washing
ton combined. But the whole world
knows that those three state in the
northwest are apple states. 1t is up
to US to tell somebody about Iowa
being an apple state and to create a
greater demand for Iowa apples.
which are admittedly better in quality.
Wherever / have been able to find a
case of Iowa apples on sale they have
been selling for from fifty to ninety
cents more per case than the Oregon,
| Idaho or Washington apples.
Iowa Hen Supreme.
! Another interesting crop is that OF
oranges. I know you viii wonder
| where am going to get off when
, contemplate comparing orange crops.
but listen: California raises ten mil
lion dollars worth of oranees every
year. and Florida four mfF,ion dollars
worth. All the rest Of the country
raises one million dollars worth per
annum. Or a grand tota. OF oranges
raised in the United States every
wear of fifteen million of collars.
And they are advertised all over the
world. Iowa-why the Iowa hen lays
eighteen million dollars worth of
eggs every year-and does not cackle
much about it either That is the
trouble with us in Iowa-the hen and
the people have not been doing
right now to cackIe about what we
have done and what we have got
THE one hundred and fifty thou
sand Iowans who have left this state
within the past twenty years have
taken with them seven hundred and
f'ftv millions OF dollars. Think it
over
Horses oue-VaIue Cotton.
1--WE have been hearing a lot about
The great cotton crop Of the south and
the country has been asked to buy
bale OF cotton and the banks Of
the country are asked to help finance
the cotton raisers OF the south Well.
the value Of the horses in Iowa fs
greater than that OF the total cotton
crop Of the United States. And this
g horseless age at that-most OF
the -owa farmere driving around with
automobiles.
"v he Unite: States department OF
agriculture has Just made public an
other BIT OF statistics that is interest
ing. All OF these farmers in Iowa
who have left the state and gone to
cheap lands In Texas and Canada, to
one place or another. have done 50
because they anticipated great IN
crease in the value of the cheap farm
lands and thev could not see where
in Iowa farm lands were going to In
crease very much in value. They
left the stat, in order to make more
money out OF land speculation. The
United States department Of agrfcu1-
t,Ire now comes forward with the
very interesting statement that the
increase in the value OF farm land IN
Iowa has been greater during the last
ten Years than the increase in any
state in the union. Think It over 1t
means that wherever these Iowans
have gone whether {. be north or
south or east Or west-they have been
suckers.
iowa Farm, Value increase.
"The farm lands Of Iowa In the last
ten wears have been increased on
an average of s57.3n an acre. Re-
member that is Just the increase in