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Show ! jll The Average Valley Farmer i The average Valley farmer gets up in the morning by the alarm j ; of a Connecticut clock and buttons Chicago suspenders to Detroit over- j alls. He washes his face with Cincinnati soap in a Pennsylvania pan, sits down to a Grand Rapids table and eats Chicago meat aril Indiana I hominy, fried in Kansas lard, and biscuits cooked on a St. Louis stove. ! He goes out to the barn and puts a New York bridle cm a Ken- tucky mule, fed by Iowa corn, and plows a farm covered by a Califor- ! nia mortgage, with a Chattanooga plow. When bedtime comes, ho. reads a chapter from a Bible printed in Boston, and says a little prycr writ- J ten in Jerusalem, crawls under a blanket made in Now Jersey, only t) I be kept awake all night by a yellow-legged hound dog, the only'home j product on the place, and then wonders "why he can't make money j ! raising beets." |