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February 22, 2024
135 YEARS AGO
Corn is still and probably always will be our staple commodity. Last year we produced 2,000,000,000 bushels. The average price paid was only 23 cents per bushel, but even at this low price the commercial value of the crop was $74,000,000. This is almost equal to the value of all the gold, silver and lead mined in the United States in 1887, which was worth $87,535,000. Corn is our greatest crop. It makes hogs and cattle and alcohol, and in those forms is exported. Corn’s use as a human food is not thoroughly appreciated in this country and is hardly recognized in Europe. Our present export of corn only aggregates four percent of the total crop. How can it be increased? There will be a good opportunity this summer through the exposition in Paris.
February 22, 1889
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