Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1909 — Some Statistics About The U. S. Corn Crop. [ARTICLE]

Some Statistics About The U. S. Corn Crop.

The corn crop of the United Stater la 1907 was 2,500,000,000 bushels. The brewers, maltsters and distillers of the United States claim that they use 36,000,000 bushels of corn. This is one bushel in 69 of the production. If all the saloons in the country were put out of business, would not the increased demand for food products in drinking men’s homes put this extra bushel to better use? An old farmer, when asked what he would do with his corn, if all the saloons were closed, replied, he would probably “raise more hogs and less hell.’’