ORGANIZATION OF THE FARM 



out of the county where grown, and they had but 

 30 per cent, of the crop on hand March i, I9O4. 1 



That the Iowa farmers feed their maize more 

 generally than do the Illinois farmers is indicated 

 by the fact that the principal source of income on 

 40.5 per cent, of the farms of Illinois was hay and 

 grain, and on 43 per cent, it was live stock; 

 whereas in Iowa the principal source of income 

 was hay and grain on but 32 per cent, of the 

 farms, and live stock was the principal source of 

 income on 58." 5 per cent, of the farms. 2 There 

 were 3,710,020 hogs in the state of Illinois on 

 January i, 1904, while there were 7,364,268 in 

 Iowa. 3 On the same date there were 2,689,193 

 cattle in Illinois and 4,865,626 in Iowa. 4 These 

 facts point definitely to a great difference in the 

 farm organization in these two states. 



There are, doubtless, several reasons for this 

 difference in the farm economy of these two 

 states, but distance from the markets is certainly 

 a very important factor. The distilleries of Illi- 

 nois make a demand for materials valued at 

 $3,734,652^ and by far the most important of 

 these materials is maize, 6 while no maize was used 

 for this purpose in Iowa. The glucose factories 

 of Illinois used materials valued at $12,988,845. 



1 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1903, p. 588. 



2 Twelfth Census, Vol. V, Table 18. 



8 Yearbook, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1903, p. 673. 



4 Ibid., p. 663. 



6 Twelfth Census, Vol. IX, p. 614. 



6 Ibid., p. 615. 



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