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Photograph from U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 EARL. HOPPING AND HIS GOAT 



If every American farmer raised as much corn to the acre as this Arkansas boy, with a 

 one-goat team, the United States alone would grow as much corn as the whole world pro- 

 duces, with a billion bushels to spare (see text, page 29). 



and where once all roads led to Rome, now 

 they come directly to our dinner tables. 



Let us sit down to dinner and go over 

 the menu and try to list those who have 

 assisted in the preparation of our meal. 



At the top of the list come olives and 

 salted nuts. The olives mayhap are from 

 Spain, the almonds from California, and 

 the pecans from Texas. The salt on the 

 nuts was prepared in New York State. 

 Also we have celery that came from 

 Michigan. 



Then comes the soup. Without a cook- 

 book at hand, this writer will not pose as 

 an authority on the ingredients of soup, 

 but it may be Chesapeake Bay clam chow- 

 der, which certainly has some pepper 

 from Africa in it and other ingredients 

 from far and wide. 



Our fish is salmon from Alaska, and 

 our prime ribs of beef came to our 

 table through the Kansas City "packing- 

 town." Our potatoes came from Maine, 



our boiled rice from China, our string 

 beans from Florida, and our tomatoes 

 from Maryland. 



Next comes our salad, and it con- 

 tains — if a man may guess at the contents 

 of salads and dressings — Mexican pep- 

 pers, Hawaiian pineapple, Sicilian cher- 

 ries, Pennsylvania lettuce, Iowa eggs. 

 Spanish olive oil, Ohio vinegar, Califor- 

 nia mustard, and Guiana red pepper. 



When we get down to the ice-cream, 

 we eat Virginia cream, Cuban sugar, 

 Ecuadorean vanilla, and Mexican choco- 

 late. The cake that goes with it is made 

 of butter from Illinois, flour from Min- 

 neapolis, made from wheat grown in 

 North Dakota ; baking powder from 

 Pennsylvania, and other ingredients. 



When it comes to coffee, if we are fas- 

 tidious we will have issued a draft on 

 both Turkish Arabia and Dutch Java, or 

 if we are only folk of every-day taste we 



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