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syrup, until the time when Wells Richardson began making but- 

 ter color and Sudy began preaching dairying to increase the de- 

 mand for his goods. We enter Maine and find the people busy 

 building ships, harboring them on the coast that made it famous, 

 and eating buckwheat cakes. At the time this original trail was 

 made Rhode Island and Connecticut were joined to their idols, 

 making wooden nutmegs and clocks. 



Delaware abounded in sweet potatoes and steel, and New 

 Hampshire, too small for much of a trail, produced isinglass 

 and soapstone. New Jersey's banner crop was watermelons and 

 mosquitoes. 



Maryland's pride was oysters and peaches, and the principal 

 occupation fishing. Virginia and Tennessee were topliners in 

 peanuts, cigar wrappers and high grade chewing tobacco. Ken- 

 tucky boasted of its beautiful women, fast horses, good whiskey 

 and a legion of colonels, while Georgia, the Carolinas and Texas 

 swelled with pride because of their cotton, a crop that Hearst 

 tried to sell one bale at a time; Mississippi was raising cane, 

 Louisiana rice, and Alabama preeminent for negroes, mules and 

 molasses. 



We strike New York prominent for apples, hops, cream 

 separators and United States Senators ; Pennsylvania noted for 

 her coal fields, iron ore, oil wells and the Pennsylvania Railroad ; 

 Ohio arrogant because of its abundant crop of presidential tim- 

 ber and the home of John D. Rockefeller; Michigan, the head- 

 quarters for grapes and salt, a Republican State with a Demo- 

 cratic Governor, and the only place on earth where an article is 

 produced that will purify everything from a milk can to a polit- 

 ical campaign — Wyandotte; Indiana, historic for hooppoles and 

 poets, where Sam Dungan makes Pokalak and ex-Vice Presi- 

 dent Fairbanks drinks it — the hotbed of Bull Moose and the 

 pivotal point in deciding a presidential election. 



As westward this Lonely Cow took her course, she entered 

 the vast domain of Illinois — a name derived from a tribe of In- 

 dians meaning superior men ; but they were all working for 

 Armour and Swift, raising cattle for oleomargarine purposes, 

 and it's little wonder that in her disgust she kicked over a kero- 

 'Sene lamp and started a fire that destroyed a great city in order 



