Time was when Ohio in its different fertile valleys was the productive corn country. and the abundance and the cheapness of the corn grown in her valleys. particularly in the Miami Valley. by feeding it to swine. permitted Cincinnati to become the great porkpacking city of the West and of the country. But her scepter departed. She is no longer known as Porkopolis. As Illinois became settled. and her fertile fields gave such abundance of corn. Chicago became the great porkpacking town of the West. As immigration moved further to the West and across Illinois and Iowa and South Dakota. at least a part of it. Nebraska. Kansas. and Missouri were placed under cultivation and there came that enormous crop of corn which has permitted Kansas City and Omaha to rival Chicago in pork packing and in the slaughtering. also packing and canning of cattle and sheep.
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