Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1891 — The Pie Crop. [ARTICLE]

The Pie Crop.

In the United States-there are eaten everyday, 2,250*000 pies, Each week, 16,750,000. Each year, 819,000,000, at a total cost of $164,000,000 —an amount greater than the internal revenue, and more than enough to pay the interest on the "national debt. If the pies eaten every day were heaped one on top of another, they would make a tower thirty-seven miles high. If laid out in aline, they would reach from New York to- Boston. With the yearly pie product of the United States, a tower 13,468 miles high could be erected, and stretched in a line they would girdle the earth three times. These pies of a year would weigh 803,000 tons. And if, as has been so often stated, figures don’t lie, then certainly pie is a great institution.—New York Press.