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ute, but that machine gun could be kept continuously in operation 

 day and night for three years, nine months and twenty-five days be- 

 fore you had shot a billion bullets. If you had a billion dollars 

 and should employ a publisher to print the Bible, you could pay him 

 $1,250.00 a word and still have $37,500,000.00 left. With a billion 

 dollars you could employ one thousand men, pay them wages of five 

 dollars a day, and keep them constantly employed for a period of 542 

 years. If you were to take a billion one-dollar bills and attach them 

 end to end you would have a rope of money 118,500 miles long — it 

 would reach nearly five times around the earth. So that the Iowa 

 com crop isn't to be sneezed at. Our corn crop is worth more than 

 the annual gold output of America ; it is worth more than the total 

 wheat crop of the Dominion of Canada. Our egg crop alone is worth 

 more than the total orange crop of the entire United States. We 

 have twice as many hogs as Illinois, our next nearest competitor. 

 We have 100 million dollars worth of live stock more than any other 

 state of the Union. But we can go farther than that, and here is 

 another superlative : The horse crop of Iowa — we exported more 

 horses during the great war than any other state of the Union. 

 France is the home of the Percheron, Scotland is the home of the 

 Clydesdale, and England the home of the Shires, but Iowa has within 

 her borders more Percherons than France, more Clydesdales than 

 Scotland, more Shires than England, and more Belgian horses than 

 the entire country of Belgium. The aggregate farm values of the 

 state of Iowa is greater than the total farm values of the states of 

 Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Cqnnecticut, Rhode Island, 

 Massachusetts, Delaware, New Jersey, West Virginia, Maryland, 

 South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, New IMexico, Utah, Arizona, 

 Nevada, Wyoming and Montana — nineteen states. Can you beat it ? 

 There was a fellow connected with the department of agriculture 

 in Washington a few years ago that had heard so much of the great 

 and wonderful resources of the state of Iowa that he secured per- 

 mission of his chief to make a first-hand investigation of the state, 

 and he compiled a lot of scientific estimates, and here are some of 

 the things that he made estimates upon : He said that if all of the 

 hogs in Iowa could have been turned loose in the Panama Canal zone 

 they, with their reliable snouts, could have excavated the big ditch in 

 forty-eight hours. He estimated that the mules in this state — and 

 we don't ordinarily boast about our great mule-producnig capacity in 

 Iowa — governor, perhaps that's because there aren't enough demo- 

 crats in Iowa ! ! ! 



