Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-21


little whea, to spare from that quarter. and
the same is true of Russia. Europe, there
fore, will have TO depend mainly on Austria
liza and America for her supply of bread
stuifs.
We have no data upon which to base an
estimate OF the product of Australia, neither
have we any whereby We can tell the
product of our own country this year, but
the following summary will serve to show
that, assuming Europe to be dependent. 10 a
large extent on this country for her supply
of wheat, she will have to offer far higher
prices than was necessary during the past
three or four years:
The average wheat acreage for eleven
years, beginning 1871. has been 2S,052.4S0
acres, and the average product in the same
years were 81, 222i ,776 bushels, or nearly ~
per acre. The largest crop on
record in these years was in 1880.
49s, 5i9, sGS bushels, and that year the price
began to decline and has SO continued
through the big crops Of the subsequent
years The crop of 1883 was 426,0O0,000
bushels.
The average amount Of wheat consumed
in a year by each inhabitant is four and
two-:hird bushels, therefore it takes 2i2 320,-
000 bushels per year to supply 52,G0o,0oO
people To this add 52,OO0.OO0 bushels for
seed; the balance of the product after de-
ducting these two amounts 29i, 100000 is
what We can export. Vow the largest ex-
port of wheat in one yeac was in 1850, 1885,
S2I, PA bushels.
The acreage in wheat this year we do no.
know. but it probably will not
exceed 3O.0O0,600 acres, and at best it will
not Weld over ten bushels per acre or i total
of 300,000,OO0 bushels. The 29I $40, 900
bushels for consumption and seed at home
deducted from this leaves for export only
) ,6SG, 900 bushels, as against lSG, 32l
21i, 'S3. From the inferiority Of the
the crop in England, as set forth by the
Mark Lane EXPIRES review, coupled with the
fact that the bulk Of the supply for Europe
must be drawn from Australia aud America,
and the small amount We have Cor export
are the data upon which We base on; opiE-
ion as 10 the probable price.
EXTRACTS FROM y COMRADES SPEECH.
The following extracts take. tom AN adj
dress delivered by Col. Wood. 'csl at the
G. A. T. Reunion, last week, at Nende>bs,
will not fail to touch chord of heart; y m
pathv among those VIII, '-vore the b.ur
and sacrificed the best years Of their life ia
the service of their ccurtry:
| Col. Woodcock being introduced, said
| CoMEADEs:-Occasion like this are
fraught with peculiar feeling and sacred
memories to me. We meet year after year
to join fellowship one, again and recount
the trials, the Bariships, the vslor, the
bravery and the victories OF the war. Yet
al each Of these reunions We find vacant
chairs, and beside those chairs we see the
widows and the little ones of those who met
us on last reunion day, and do We consider
the sorrov, the suffering, the bitterness OF
soul the departure ofeach hero leaves be-
hind him? Do We properly appreciate the
weigh, of responsibility left to US: As
members of the Grand Army, our honor
our substance, tour lives if need bel are
pledged to the defense and care Of these
helpless and bereaved ones.
Our fathers established the principle that
all men are created equal and endowed with
certain enalienable rights, and they laid this
grand saying as the foundation stone OF
this great Republic.
And now, you my comrades, in these last
days have placed the keystone in this mag
nificent structure, and named it Fraternity,
| Charity and Loyalty. And to the universal
brotherhood of man have added closer ii,
"A brotherhood of patriotism, of sacrifice.
of danger and Of death.
As boys we left our homes together; WI
tented on the same csmp-ground, We drank,
boys, from the same canteen. We stood
elbow to elbow on the battle field. amid the
rear OF artillery, the screeching shell and
the whistling bullet. We stood together
over the bitches where our dead comrades
were buried by platoons, companies and
regiments. We talked and thought of home
and friends We scarce expect to see again.
| Yet in Gods mercy we were allowed tC
escape Now, comrades. who should gain
say our right to NEE; as we meet to-day and
recount the memories and the glorics Of the
past.
But, comrades, am not here to-day 10
make you an extended or an elaborate
speech, but to take You each by the hand in
that fraternity, charity and loyalty which
only Grand Army comrades understand. |
thank God that we are again allowed thus
to meet. | wan; to impress on each one of
| you the duty You have before you. All
over this great state there are thousands Of
| worthy soldiers who are not members Of the
Grand Army. Go to work, comrades, and
gather them into this grand brotherhood OF
| ours. Make your meetings go pleasant and
your post rooms so attractive that no
| member Of the order would wish 70
stay away. Encourage where N
all practical the work Of the ". L. c.
They-Gods best gift to msn-work as
siduouslv. untiringly and rnseldshly. for
Us, their husbands, their brothers. and their
fstse,s, who dared death for them.
Unite in all efforts 20 advance our Com
mon cause until our beloved Kansas shall
he the banner state in our great work OF
fraternity, charity and loyalty.
want to di.abuse your minds in one par
,iculsr. Complaint has reached department
headquarters tbs; the presen, government
of Kansas WAS not properly recognizing the
old soldiers by appointments This my
comrades Is not true. know that three
fourths Of Governor Martins appointments
have been from the ranks Of the soldiers.
All YOU should 10 OF demand Is justice, and
in this instance l know you have got Ii.
Now. comrades, in conclusion ! coneratG-
late YOU on this magnificent success. and
hope you may be blessed with many returns
of thi. memorable occasion. and tbs. when
Won each are finally mustered out you may
ioin that reunion where none viii ohiec. to
a continuous and eternal encsmFueat, and
where eroakers will have no plsce.
Henry Crozie-, the soldier who died at
the home, was no; buried until yesterday