The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-20
MILLER HAGEMAN.
GERMANY CANNOT COMPETE.
Prot. Wilckens' Report as to Ameri-
can Cattle.


can Cattle.
The state department at Washington has
received from Consul General Edwards of
Berlin the following translation of an
article which appeared in the North Ger
man Gazette.
PROF. NJ Wilckens, in Vienna, draws, in
the Farmer, a very gloomy picture con-
corning the continuance and intensity of
American competition. Perhaps Mr..
Wilckens looks too much to the dark side,
yet, as under a commission from the Aus
trian government be has been for a con-
siderable time in America for the rpose
of studying the agricultural conditions
there, his opinion must command respect.
Prof. Wilckens writes:
60 The danger of competition.in cattle for
slaughter Is a great and fatal one undoubt.
eddy, for the German farmer. 1t is, more
over, small comfort to the German meat
producer to know that the ffuest cattle are
not yet brought from North America to
Germany, because they cannot stand the
wide transportation. What is imported at
present is cattle from the western part of
North America, which are raised almost
without expense and cheaply fattened from
the rich supply of maize. Who knows,
however, but that in a short time appli-
ances for transportation may be introduced
which may permit the importation of the
finest slaughterhouse wares
81 am convinced That if American busI-
ness men call an enterprise to life, they will
bring 1t through with all their energy aud
and in spite of obstacles, even if there is a
loss at the outset. | also do not doubt but
that America in the near future will intro
ducs INTO Germany, with profit, great num-
bers of living food cattle We, moreover,
~ n n hat Gar
many, in the masses of agricultural pro-
duction, can compete with North America
At present the United States have about
300, 100000 acres of surveyed, unoccupied
land, which the congress government
either gives away for nothing for home
steads, or sells at very low prices as pre-
emption or timber claims. Nine hundred and
sixty million acres are about $685. 600
square kilome,e rS, that is, territory as
large all of Western Europe with the ex-
cepiion of Russia and Turkey in their cd
frontiers). Besides this the United States
possesses about $40, 100000 acres more of
unsurveyed and uncccupied land, making
altogether 1900 600 acres of unoccupied
land, or about 1900, 900 square kilometers
What can thickly populated Europe, with
a population five times as great as the
United States, do against such stretch of
virgin soil! The state of Dakota alone
with 1856. 153 square kilometsrS Qarger than
Hungary with its 1922, 1856 kilometers),
has only $3.50 square kilometers SET
tied, yet it produces about 100000 COO
hectoliters of wheat. This state, which at
the moment stands first in immigration
mot only of Europeans, but much more of
Americ trs,) is only beginning to be settled,
and already has two overland railways (the
Northern Pacific and the Manitoba roads,
which transport its masses of wheat at cheap
rates to tue ports of Lakes Superior and
Michigan, as well as to the AtlanUic Ocean,
We may expect that when Dakota is fully
settled, which will be in five, or al least ten
years, this state alone will produce $50,
600 hectohters of wheat, Dakota and
Minnesota, which is just as fruitful, lie, so
to speak, a. the gates Of Chicago, the
great market of the world for grain and
cattle. In the year 1888, in the cattle mar
ket of Chicago, there were 2, Gil ,543 head of
beef, 4,921,7l2 of swine AID 1.5l50l4 of
sheep. | believe that these numbers, at
least in beef. will be doubled in ten years,
when the congress government will have
completed the lrri cation which 1t now has
in Wow of the so-callod American desert
With this comes the irrigation of the states
of Colorado Montana and Washington,
which, likewise, will be commenced with
American energy. Already American
engineers are on their way to Europe to
study our plans of irrigation, and the
American consuls in Europe have received
instructions to send to America all works
which are published on the subject Of irrl-
CATION.
'This energy of the Americans in agri-
cultural matters one can understand when
he reads the closing words of the recently
published first annual report of the United
Sta.es secretary of agriculture, J. NJ Rusk
He says: The great nations of Europe are
stretching every nerve to make the science
of war useful. May the aim of the Ameri-
can people be to make the sciencs OF agri-
culture useful
TO this the German Agricultural Press
remarks: And this will be the case. Every
state of the union has its agricultural ex-
perlmental station and its experimental
farm, which the government of the United
States in " ashington, in each case, supports
by an annual appropriation of $4,000
(62, $50 marksl. The chemists of these ex-
perimental stations have been instructed in
German university laboratoriums Chiefly
in Gottingsn and Laipscl, and no stata let's
any opportunity escape to advance the
science of ag iculture'
1T were folly for German farmers to shut
their eyes to this mighty intellectual move
Inent OF the North American farmers. and
it were madness to believe that they can
compete with North Amer ca in the mass
Of farm productions. Among these mass
products are wheat and ordinary food
cattle"
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