MISSOURI IS "SOME PUMPKINS." 



(Copy of circular prepared by W. L. Nelson and issued November, 1913.) 



Missouri is "some pumpkins." Each year the Missouri 

 farmer cuts a half billion dollar melon. 



"Some pumpkins" in corn! Missouri will this year harvest 

 more than a million bushels of corn to the county — and there 

 are 114 counties in the State. Despite the discount that drouth 

 demanded, we are still "some pumpkins" in corn production. 

 Preliminary figures by the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture credit Missouri with more barrels of corn than Kansas 

 has bushels — and it takes five bushels to make one barrel. The 

 Missouri corn crop of 1912 was about a cjuarter of a billion 

 bushels. But two states in the Union — Illinois and Iowa — 

 grew more. Five Missouri counties each grew more than 

 5,000,000 bushels of corn, while seven others grew more than 

 4,000,000 bushels each. These twelve counties together grew 

 one-fourth as much corn as the entire State of Indiana, prac- 

 tically the same as either Michigan or Wisconsin, more than 

 one-fourth as much as either Kansas or Nebraska, one-third as 

 much as the entire State of Texas, one-half as much as Okla- 

 homa and more than all Arkansas. The combined output of 

 corn grown in twenty states of the Union is less than that of 

 these dozen Missouri counties. One Missouri county alone, 

 with production of 6,413,000 bushels, grew more corn than any 

 one of sixteen states. Argentina, that vast country of South 



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