Show S CORN AND GOLD The Courier Journal noting the wonderful won-derful showing made by Iowa crops this year is lost In admiration and says The average yield of corn for the dc cado has been lli bushels per acre It this year measured IQZ bushels per acre The yield of corn was 343151JIO bushels and at 27 centu a bushels lOots up a grand total of WSlGISw The aggregate value of nil the farm products of the State Is put at yOoOSS Then the CourierJournal adds This Is not far behind the years production pro-duction of gold and Hhotvs that Iowa cornfields aro a 1 gnjalcr source of revenue reve-nue than all the gold mines of North America besldos ajrording a much more satisfactory way of living The agriculture editor of the Courier Journal the granger editor forgets some things One Is that before the boys In the ravines and gulches of California began to dig gold corn wan not worth 27 cents a bushel in Ioa I not by about 20 cents that In those ijays they used to burn It as fuel even when the coal fields were close by the doors lie forgets too that inoL I a bushel more corn should be raised in Ioa for twenty years corn could not advance a cent In value whereas If no more gold should be dug out of the mines of the world for twenty years corn would go back probably lo cents a bushel that Is i that the valuo of corn in Iowa depends upon the amount of gold In the country whereas the alue of gold does not depend upon the amount of corn In Iowa Further he should keep In mind that while rals ing com is a plcaaantcr occupation than digging gold unless one has a good mine and Is making a great deal of money there is no clement to advance ad-vance civilization in corn wlicreaa civilization advances or recedes according ac-cording to the amount of gold which the mines supply When the world was young and the chief necessity was to I increase l population so that the forests for-ests might be subdued and tile fields I tilled while men lived < 1 a sort of vagabond I vaga-bond life tending their nocks cultivat big their tracts In a rude way when they dressed in the skins of animals and before they learned to make first class cornbread the refinements of life did not very vastly Increase It was not until men learned < 1 how to make Iron out of Iron ore and learned to estimate es-timate values in silver and gold that the refinements came Hence the enlightenment en-lightenment of the world does not I come through corn but through gold I and while it is perfectly legitimate to I raise corn it is still moro legitimate to work a gold mine because one is perishable and passes away with the season muph like the grass whlje the other ia impcrlnhable I I and becomes a measure ofcvalucp for all time and hence the gold taken from the little I camp oC Cripple Creek In Colorado this year is of more real 1 value to the world i I than ail the 046055010 bushels of corn I S5 at 27 cents a bushel taken from the fields oC Iowa during the present year |