Already this term Schools have heard about the wheat farms in the Argentine and the Javanese rice farmer, and today they are to hear about the American farmer of the Middle West-about rattle-snakes and prairie-dogs and maize (Indian corn) that grows ten feet high.
They will hear how the maize fields of Ohio on the one side and Nebraska on the other are inseparably linked with the stock-yards in Chicago, for maize feeds the hogs that the gentlemen of Chicago turn into canned pork. Dr. Eric Ashby will give you all first-hand information because he has worked both on a prairie farm in Illinois and in Chicago itself.