Show COTTON COTON AND AriD CORN It is sa said d that the East Indian was lost in pity for forthe forthe forthe the men of England when told that rice rise did didot not ot grow in iu that country He could not imagine how people a could live unless they had rice for their main mam In n the same way an American we think has a right tl tp believe his own is the greatest of countr countries es because because be be- cause jt it t yields the worlds world's main supply of cotton and corn The two plants together are about enough to clothe and feed the world Cotton brings the m most st ready money j. j it is our country's gr greatest export but then the the corn feeds the main portion of the men and animals animal of the R Re Re- p public Cotton is being manufactured now into substances substances sub sub- substances stances as as silk and in some form or or another corn finds its way to almost every breakfast and dinner dinner din din- ner table in the country it fattens the animals that men meth in turn eat out of it starch is made to stiffen to the world and whisky to mellow down the hard obstacles obstacles obstacles cles of life Cotton seed seea is a a. a product by t that about pays jays the expenses es of raising and harvesting the crop an and l from this product by-product one of the luxuries of or the table comes S N NAnd And our country has a practical monopoly of the theone theone one plant and raises more of the other than all the rest of the earth combined I By By Bythe the way our Southern States are in increasing their rice crop until it has bec become me a great factor Since an easy way to separate the grain from the straw has been found many planters are turning to it We Ve are pret pretty y nearly feeding the tile world and people peo peo- pIe who speak lightly about other nations making war val upon us should re remember Ember that fa fact t |