Show The Western Corn Belt An eastern grain dealer who has made a tour ofinvestigation in the western corn beSjUoeports a crop of 2000000000 bushels of ijarn which he figures will require 3333339 cars for its transportation and which allowing an average length of thirtyfive feet per car would be equiva lent to a train 22090 miles in length or almost long enough to guidle the globe It is no wonder that with such a tremendous production prices of corn are excessively lowso low indeed that it does not pay to send corn to market from distant points hence the railways will not get the amount of revenue from carrying the portion of this prodigious yield that is offered them than they would receive from a smaller crop at better prices |