By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
NCE upon a time a gov-
ernor of the state of Il-
is paid a tribute to
one of the principal prod-
ucts of his state and his
eulogy upon this princi
I urce of her wealtl
! become a classic in
American oratory.
Oglesby, his subject was corn and this
is what he said about it:
But now again my mind tu
glorious r See tt! Look
ripening, ving fleld!
Wears a . prouder tha
ever wore, sometimes
sometimes, after the storm, the
fied survivors of the tempest seem
view a field of slaughter and to pi
fallen foe And son the pendant
caskets of the cornfield, filled with the
wine of life, and see the silken fringes
that set a ion and for art.
And y he evening comes and
somethin ime to rest and listen
The scuddis clot conceal the half
and reves h whole of the moonlit
beauty o } n And then the
gentle wi make heavenly harmonies
on a thousand-thousand harps that
hang upon the borders and the edges
and the middle of the field of ripening
corn, -until my heart seems to beat to
the rising and the falling of the long
melodious refrain The melancholy
clouds sometimes make shadows an
hide its aureate wealth: and now they
move, and slowly Into sight there
comes the golden glow of promise for
an industrious land.
Glorious corn, that more than all the
sisters of the fleld wears tropic gar.
ments Not on the shores of Nilus or
of Ind does nature dress her forms
more splendidly. My God, to live again
that time when for me half the world
was good and the other half unknown
And now again the corn that in {ts
kernel holds the strength that shall
{in the body refreshed) subdue
the forest and romp r wonse from
every FODor: id, o y ng in the
eye of beauty make blossoms of her
cheeks and jewels of her lips and thus
make for men the greatest ins
to well-doing, the hope ' nior
ship of that sacred, warm and well-em-
bodied soul, a woman
Ave, the corn, the roval corn, within
whose yellow heart there 18 of health
and strength f« all tt nations!
The t riumphant, hat with the
aid of man 1} } Y victorious pro-
reas y 8 h { n and laid
foundation for the social elience
that is and is to } ious plant
transmuted by h alchemy of God,
sustains the the poet
in song and r everywhere
the thousand arms that work ihe purrs
poses of jife. Oh, that 1 had the voice
of song y e skill to translate into
tones and harmonies, the symphonies
and pratories that roll ross my soul
when standing sometin YY ght up-
on the borde ) dant sen, 1
note a we mi then be-
fore one-half the year is gone 1 view
its full fruition and see its heaped gold
await the need of man,
Who fancies cleaning the jaws and
fangs of a highly annoyed king cobra
or hamadryad whose bite is something
very special in the way of death?
This was one of the unpleasant tasks
performed by keepers at the London
200,
Snakes in captivity are frequently
attacked by canker of the mouth, and
the king cobra had to go through the
ordinary medical examination. Its
Although lowa boasts that she is the
“state where the tall corn grows” not
from California. The stalk
Majestic,
in the
United
may upon “ripening, waving
grown in every state in the Union, al-
though the eastern half of our coun-
ry is richest in this splendid product
of its fertile soil. No other form of
plant life is so typical of the North
le 40M) (xx).
re than $
al Hawkeyes know
hy Ray
and
IOWA CORN SONG
[let's eing of grand old 1.O-WAY, Yo-
ho, yo-ho, yo-ho.
i Our low i ronger ev'ry day, Yo-ho,
| yo-ho,
the throng.
nd strong,
ng, Yo-
tory as is maize or Indian corn. The
name itself speaks of its real Ameri
canism for maize is the Anglicized
form of the Spanish “maiz,” which in
turn was derived from the Haytian
“mahiz” or “mabhis” the name by
which the copper-skinned inbabitants
of the West Indies, who welcomed
Columbus, knew this plant.
cultivated by the prehistoric races of
the New world long before Columbus
navigator carried the first grains of
corn to Europe on his return voyage.
every schoolboy Is familiar with the
story of how Massasoit’'s people
taught the Pllgrims to plant corn
the size of a mouse's ear” and how
to fertilize it by planting a fish In
each hill with the grains of corn,
“Aye, the corn, the royal corn—"
for indeed “Corn is King” in the United
States, From the beginning of our
history corm has been its principal
annual corn crop is around two and
three-quarter billion bushels which
far exceeds the one and one-quarter
billion bushels record of oats and less
The value of this gigantic corn crop
Is well over two billion dollars and
the only other crops which can ap
proach it in value are cotton with its
value of one and one-quarter billions
and hay with a value a little over that
of cotton,
Although Illinois gave to the nation,
in the words of one of its governors,
head was secured in a “snake stick”
a peculiar rod with a leather loop,
and its jaws were pried open and
swabbed out with an antiseptic pad.
The venom of a king cobra has been
known to kill an elephant in five
hours. A short-sighted cobra probably
mistook the elephant’'s trunk for a
black snake and started a fourdon
meal,
The hamadryad's cage at the 200
has a special grille over the Ingpection
window to prevent the creature leap
log up six feet aud biting its keepers.
. way, l-o-wavy,
State of all the land,
loy on e ¥ hand
We're fr l-o-way., l-o-way
{ That's where the tall corn grows.
i
Our land !s full of ripening corn, Yo-
ho, yo-ho, yo-ho,
We've watched it grow both nig
morn, Yo-ho, yo-ho, yo-ho,
But now we rest, we've stood the test,
All that's good we have the best,
I-o-way has reached the crest, Yo-bho,
yo-ho, yo-ho,
ht and
1
Chorus
Nebraska, which plants more than
ROOM) acres and harvests nearly
300000000 bushels, celebrates her
fame as the second corn-growing state
by proclaiming to all the world that
| her citizens are “Cornhuskers.” Illinois
takes third place with an acreage of
| some 300,000 less than Nebraska's and
a production of some 37.00.0000 bush-
els less, Fourth place goes to Kan
| sas and this state has also produced
| a great tribute to corn—in the form
| of poetry instead of prose, For the
state's most famous woman poet is
Mrs. Ellen Palmer Allerton, who moved
from Wisconsin to a farm near Ham.
lin, Kan., just 50 years ago. There
was no house yet built upon their
homestead when Mrs, Allerton and her
| husband arrived there and they lived
in a small granary (which still stands
on the Allerton farm) until a house
was built. All around them for miles
stretched fields of waving corn and
this gave her the inspiration for the
poem, “Walls of Corn,” which she wrote
in 1883 and which has been reprinted
many times as a wonderful tribute to
a wonderful “gift of a rich and fer.
tile land™
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