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Such incidents revealed that Iowa farmers were quick to discover that wheat to be profitable required mills, whereas corn needed only hogs. Shrewd Iowans, like Cincinnatians a generation before, had learned that a hog was nothing more than fifteen or twenty bushels of corn on four legs! And since the Mississippi was the great north south highway and Saint Louis the chief entrepot for Iowa goods, river towns of the Hawkeye State grew fat on meat packing. A sur vey of the whole United States was said to show only three towns ahead of Keokuk as the new Porkopolis.
But a significant form of transportation was developing - the railroad a mode of conveyance which was destined to revolution ize the meat packing industry. By the spring of 1852 Chicago was united with the Atlantic by two railroads; by 1854 the Iron Horse linked the Windy City with the Mississippi opposite Davenport. In another three years Chicago had extended her connections with the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, Dubuque, Clinton and Burling ton.
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