Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1907 — Corn Is Crowned King. [ARTICLE]

Corn Is Crowned King.

“Our corn crop is worth, roughly one billjou of dollars* each jear. It is equal in valne to two-thirds of all our exports. Its value is twice that ol the world’s yearly output of gold and silver. The corn erop for ten years would nearly buy the; world’s production of gold for the last 400 years, and 80 per cent of the world’s corn crop is produced within an area of about one day’s ride irom Chicago.’’ The uatidbal corn exposition is now being held at the Coliseum in Chicago, and 10,000 people attended the opening Saturday night. The corn grower cuts a mighty important figure in not only the agricultural but the business world but the above statement of Harlow N. HigiuDothani, of Chicago of the magnitude of it) accomplishments by comparison will be news to many people. Truly corn of the pro duets of the farm and when it is worth 50 cents a bushel the crown of its supremacy is diamond studded. The show is said to be the biggest exhibition of corn ever held anywhere, and it would no doubt welLworth The while of any progressive farmer to go to the windy city to see the cord show.