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Show "CORN BELT" OF THE FUTURE Strip Now Includes Many Northern States and Will Soon Take in Arable Portion of Country. The "corn belt" used to be a strip of country running generally from Pennsylvania to Kansas, and including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and the southern half of Iowa. But the fashion In belts Is changing, as all rashlons are liable to do. , The corn belt Is spreading Itself out. It goes farther east, and farther west, and most emphatically It Is moving to the north and south. Michigan, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Minnesota and even the Dako-tas Dako-tas and Montana are now in the corn belt. The southern states are knocking knock-ing at the door. Georgia, Alabama and the Curollnas are showing that a bun-tired bun-tired bushels to the acre Is uothing to them. The corn belt In the future will extend ex-tend from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, Mex-ico, and it will reach to the Rocky tnoui.'ii.ns, if not beyond It Is no longer long-er a (,!(. but a section, comprising al-tnosi al-tnosi the etUra arable portion of the United States, and may even Include the deserts and the mountains to a Urn ited extent Farm Life. |