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Show -on A MAMMOTH CORN CROP. American Harvest Overshadows Pharaoh's Phar-aoh's Bumper Crops. Such was the niagnlture of tho crop of corn raised by Jcseph in Egy.t In (ho time of Pharaoh, that it ' was thought worthy of r.corH in fh. mv.i.. We connot tell accurately, as by measurement meas-urement reduced to American bush-cl. bush-cl. what this harvest of Euvnfan grain was. All that we know is that ' grain was. All that we know is that it rulers of Egypt, and make the country the commercl.il master of the ancient world. Yet It was undoubtedly much small-V small-V than the harvest of Indian corn or r aize, which the Amerlcuii far mem secured in the early nu:uiun f IDlrt That is estimated, in round numbers at 3 121,000,000 bushels. Curiously' enough, the number of bushels of Indian In-dian Corn harvested bv the farmers of America Is approximately equivalent equiv-alent to the number of dollars in actual ac-tual circulation throughout the United Unit-ed States. That is to sav, If It were necessary to buy outright the corn crop of last summer, and to pay for ll in cash at the rate of one dollar a bushel, then. In order to do this, there would be needed everv rjnllar of money in circulation. Munsey's Mag-alno. |