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America, grew but one-fifth more bushels of corn than did Mis- 

 souri. Had all our corn, in the ear, been loaded on cars it 

 would have made a train extending from New York to San 

 Francisco and filling a sidetrack from St. Louis to Kansas City. 

 The cobs, if made into Missouri meerschaums, of which the 

 State last year manufactured more than 28,000,000 — enough 

 for every fellow to give Old Missouri a "puff" — would have 

 enabled the whole world to smoke the pipe of peace. Combined 

 in one ear, the cob would have served to bridge the Atlantic, 

 or hollowed out it would have provided a traffic tube for conti- 

 nent-to-continent trains. 



"Some pumpkins" in wheat! The 1913 Missouri wheat 

 crop amounted to more than 35,000,000 bushels — more, accord- 

 ing to preliminary figures by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, than that of any other state, save six. This is 

 more than twice as much wheat as was grown in either Okla- 

 homa or Oregon, both heralded as wonder wheat states. It is 

 more than three times as much as was grown in the entire State 

 of Texas, where the wagon haul to railroad is often as long as 

 is the railroad haul in Missouri. It is more than three times 

 as much as is grown in Colorado, where the millionaire goes for 

 air, and almost thirty times as much as is grown in Arkansas, 

 where many go for bear. It is more than was grown in Alberta 

 last year; and in this same Missouri, land of balmy days and 

 blue grass, is grown a wheat crop equal to one-sixth that of all 

 Canada. Had the Missouri wheat crop of the present year 

 been made into flour and the flour converted into loaves of bread 

 of standard size, the output would have been enough loaves, if 

 placed end to end in a single row, to have extended from the 

 earth to the moon and more than half way back. If made into 

 biscuit — but why invite everybody to breakfast! This year 

 seven Missouri counties each grew more than a million bushels 

 of wheat. The wheat production of any one of these seven 

 counties equaled that of any one of a dozen states, while the 

 combined wheat production of these same counties equaled the 

 production of any one of twenty-five states. This year any one 

 of half a dozen Missouri counties grew enough wheat to have 

 provided one loaf of bread for each of the 93,000,000 inhabitants 

 of the United States. 



"Some pumpkins" in oats! The Missouri oat crop of 1912 

 was approximately 30,000,000 bushels. Figures showing yield 

 for the present year are not yet available. The threshed crop 



