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If you should dig it up 

 you could wash with its 

 root as with a piece of 

 soap. There 

 are two kinds 

 of soap-plant 

 found in 

 South Amer- 

 ica. 



There 

 is also 

 a soap- 

 plant 

 in Eng- 

 land, 

 called 

 soap- 

 wort. 



41. The 

 plants which 

 furnish us with 

 most of our 



food are wheat, Indian corn, 

 rice, and potatoes. 



42. This country sends 

 immense quantities of wheat 

 and corn to Europe every 

 year. They are cultivated 

 extensively in California 

 and the States which touch 

 the Great Lakes and the Missouri River. 



43. The States which are celebrated for wheat 

 and corn are California, Illinois, Indiana, 

 Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis- 

 souri, Kansas, and Nebraska. 



44. Countries besides ours which are cele- 



Wheat. 



