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that won't produce corn has lost its value and standing. A farm in Madi- 
son county that won't produce corn has lost its charms and value. No 
corn — no money! No money — bankruptcy! Corn means everything. Why, 
did you ever stop to uhink what an immense pile one year's crop of Iowa 
corn would mean? It means this: Loaded in wagons containing fifty 
bushels to the wagon and allowing thirty feet to the team and wagon, 
start the wagon westward upon its journey around the world, crossing 
the Missouri river at Omaha, on westward across the plains of Nebraska, 
over the mountains of Colorado, across Utah and Nevada, over the 
mountains of California, on westward across the great Pacific ocean to 
Japan, ever westward to the Japan Sea and Korea, and still on and west- 
ward across the Chinese empire and over the limitless wastes of Siberia, 
still westward through Russia and Austria Hungary, on through Ger- 
many and across Prance, over the British channel, across the British 
Isles and still on across the broad Atlantic, over Rhode Island and Con- 
necticut crossing the Empire State, through Pennsylvania; on, ever on, 
westward across Ohio, through Indinana and Illinois, back across the great 
Mississippi and on to Winterset. A complete circle of loaded wagons around 
the entire globe and yet the great pile is not exhausted. Not until an- 
other line of loaded wagons encircles the globe more than half again." 
This is not a dream. This is a mathematical truth. Made possible only 
in lowu. And if it were not for the fact that the land robber had been 
at work the second line of wagons loaded with Iowa corn would have been 
in long ago. 
The United States government cannot run a mint with everything going 
out and nothing coming in. Everything going out and nothing coming in 
isn't good for a railroad station! Then why not apply these plain, every- 
day truths to our farms? It is true that the systematic robbery that has 
been going on recklessly for many years is a serious menace to the con- 
tinued prosperity of the farmer. It costs more to raise a half crop than 
it does to raise a full crop. It matters not how thoroughly we may pre- 
pare the seed-bed and how well we cultivate the crop if we have robbed 
the land of its fertility we will only get what is by right due us — a light 
crop. How can we make restitution? How can we pay the debt? If 
you owe me a hundred dollars and have a credit at the bank you give me 
a check. If not, you may go to the bank and borrow the money and pay 
the debt. Now it is not my intention to go back several hundred years 
and try to give a scientific treatise on common red clover or the "Clover 
Quartette" feeling that this is not necessary. I do believe that every 
Iowa farmer is indebted greatly to "Common Red Clover" and I am con- 
vinced that common red clover can, and will pay more debts and add 
more to his wealth, if generously used, than any one, and I might say all, 
other popular fertilizers combined. Many a man has lost ten dollars 
trying to save a quarter. Many a farmer has lost $500.00 because clover 
seed was selling 12 or 15 cents too high per bushel. Too high! Can't 
afford to buy it! I am in a position to know from personal experience that 
clover seed is not pi'oMMtive at $25.00 per bushel. The writer owns a 
worn-out farm that a few years ago, planted to corn, raised about seven 
bushels of corn and forty-five bushels of cockleburrs to the acre. The 
cockleburrs showing 110 per cent germination. From this same identical 
