Connecticut western news., 1915-01-28
by Ben Foster, the Cornwall Hollow

by Ben Foster, the Cornwall Hollow artist.
 The picture is entitled the Litchfield Hills, and can assure you it recalls to my mind scenes that will always re- main dear to me. I did not live real near those hills, but on two or three occasions I am quite sure 1 have gath cred chestnuts from under those same trees. Certainly there is no prettier place than the country surrounding Cornwall Hollow.
 Michigan Avenue is swell place for promenade and is used much by automobilists. It is along this avenue that the fine hotels are situated.
 It was very warm during the eight days 1 staid i'll Chicago, except at such times as we got the breeze from the lake. The time is at hand when must be thinking of starting for California and assure you it was with regret for have been entertained royalty here by my Tennessee friends, who have been living in Chicago for the last dozen or more years. It is ten o'clock p, m. and the 28th of May, and find myself at the Santa Fe depot ready for the train to pull ont, and on my way to a country that is quite strange to me ex- cept in name. It is storming and l am going to crawl into my bunk for the night ready to be up and at it just as soon as the morning light breaks above the horizon. 1 am not accustomed to sleeping in Pullman cars and did not get much rest last night, although I feel all right today. We have passed Madison, Iowa.
 One does not have to look long before he sees he is in some country and that Iowa is fine state. As we are passing I can see buildings filled with hay, in fact never saw so much hay; there seems 10 be enough to fill Solomon's Temple. When nature made this state she spread it on, tor when the moun- tains fell down they spread out for miles contraction formed by looking into mountains and hills. The land is suf- ficiently rolling to be interesting and free from monotony.
 The corn is out of tie ground and is sufficiently high to be cultivated for the first time, and as I am writing this our train is passing through miles and miles of corn and grain. The oats look healthy and are splendid stand, and vegetation of all kinds is much earlier than in the New England states. Al falfa can be seen almost everywhere. The fine type of dairy COW so much in evidence in the east is not seen and dairying does not seem to be practiced as much ill this country as it farther toward the Atlantic Sea Board, proba- bly, for the reason that there is more money i'll grain, as they can send it East and get good prices for it, while those who make milk in the East go broke trying to pay their grain bills. Thus a constant stream of money is kept flowing from the East to these grain producing states, and even so the middleman is getting the cream of the transaction. The farmers of the mid dle West must be getting rich fast now as their products are bringing top notch prices, and while these farms are build ing up and being worked to their limit, pllO Ic1AAo OA bllO 4NOW AIhSlo1h ONoOSo are going back to their primal condi- tions. l do not know as this part of the country is the granary of the world, but it looks to me to be about all that could be said about it along this line.
 What can be said of Iowa along these lines can also be, to a certain extent, said of Missouri excepting that the ground seems to be little more roll Ing, more orchards are to be seen and the weather seems to be some warmer and as our train is rushing on towards Kansas City, am experiencing that feeling that comes to one who is pass ing rapidly to warmer climate, and to one who has lived in the Sunny South fer a number of years it IS no