The Marshall republican., 1914-01-23
SOME PUMPKINS

Missouri is some pumkins.' Each
Year the Missouri farmer cuts a half
billion dollar melon.
Some pumpkins in corn! Mis-
! souri viii this year harvest more than
q million bushels Of corn to the coun-
N-and there are MA countries In
The state. Despite the discount that
drouth demanded, we are still "5ome
pumpkins in corn production. Pre-
minary figures by the United States
! department OF Agriculture credit Mis-
ouri with more barrels OF corn than
Kansas has 0usncls-aud it takes five
bushels to make one barrel. The
Missouri corn crop Of 1912 was about
, quarter of q billion bushels. But
two states in the uuiou-Iniuois and
Iauu-grcw more. Five Missouri
counties each grew more than ,.0pO.-
600 bushels of corn. while seven
others grew moro than l@.UOU.ooD
bu. heels each. These twelve counties
together ,row Da]r-iourth as much
corn as tie entire state of Indiana.
practically Che samc ga either Miehi-
gt or Wisconsin. more than
uurth as much 1853 either Kansas or
Nebraska. onc-tHird as much as tHo
..urc state OF Texas. ouc-halr a. ok
auama and NOR, than all Arkansas.
Tho combined output OF corn grown
a tuunty states of the Union O. les
.lau that OF these dozen Missouri
.1rntl,s. one Missouri county alone
ith production OF G.if8.UUO bushels.
lav more corn shan amy ono of siS
,DDu states. Arsnr,iua, that vast
country o.. south America. grow bur
.B,.fi.th moro GOO hois ui roru than
Ill Missouri. Had uil our corn. Ia
ay ear, been .olisi uu ,lra il would
layg made % train extending from
Sow York Co san Francisco pui til.
|uf q side track from $50. Louis TO
.n.ls city. mn, ,ols. g. made into
Hi. .ou,i m,urselaum.. of which tho
,t',o IHst year Lauu Hainrcl moro
IuHu s,. 100000 ,uuu. Tor every
follow 90 elyc Old 400 curt a puff
would have enabled the whole
orll O., .moko the pipe OF peace.
combined In oHc ear. the cob would
have .crycd to hr'd-c the Atlantic, o,
followed QUE it would have provided
1 traffic tube Tor continont-to-cou-
Uu,nt trains.
some pumpkins" In wheat. The
1913 Missouri wheat crop amounted
% mor than 80 100000 bushels
More. according TO preliminary rlg.
ufrs by ,Do UA,cI States Department
1f Agriculture. than chat OF any othor
toto as much wheat gs was grown
U save slN. This Is more than twice
either Oklghnma or Ogoguu. both
..saidod az Wc1Hor wheat states. d,
more than three times us much gs
was grown IA On, entire state OF TrN-
ls, whore the WAGON haul TO railroad
Us often 40 Ions d. the railroad haul
Do Missouri 30 more than three
times as much SCI, is grown I'm Colo.
.Jd1. whore Oh, millionaire goes for
air, and almost thirty times as much
ls is sgoWu IN Arkansas, where many
30 for bear. 10 more than wa.
groUn IN Alberta last year; and in
This same Missouri; land OF halmy
Gays and bluogrcH., is grown a wheat
rop equal to one 18th that OF all.
Canada. Had the Missouri wheat
rop OF the present year been made
into Hour ana the Hour converted
into ioaycs OF bread OF the standard
ize, the output would have been en-
ough loayes, a. placed end TO end IN
"a sinsle row, to have extended from
the Garth 20 the moon aud more than
hall way back, lf made into biscuit
but why invite everybody to break
fast, This year seven Missouri coun-
ties each grew more than a million
bushels OF wheat. The wheat pro-
d%uctiou Of any one OF these seven
counties eQualed that OF any n of 4
dozen states, while the combined
wheat production OF these same coun-
ties oQualed the production of any
ore OF twenty-five states. This year
any n OF half Il dozen Missouri
counties grew enough wheat to have
provided n Loaf OF bread for each
Of the 90, 900. OoO Inhabitants OF the
United States.
Some pumpkins in oats! The
Missouri oat crop OF 1912 was APP
Proximately 10000, 600 bushels. Fig
ures showing yield for the present
year are not yet available. The thr-
oshed crop was somewhat short, the
Yield from thousands of acres being
used as breakfast food for aristocratic
Drasautat az tho Iivp storL