The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-07-19
GERMANY CANNOT COMPETE.
Professor EVilckens' Report as to At5ori-
can Cattle.


can Cattle.
WAsHINGToN, July H.
The following is translated from the
North German Gazette OF December Il.
and transmitted to Secretary Blaine by
Consul General Z iwards, OF Berliu:
prof, NJ Wilckens, in Vienna, dra rs,
in the Farmer, a very gloomy PCT ire
concerning the continuance and intensity
of American competition. Perhaps Mr.
Wilckens looks too much to the dark
side, yet, as uuder Il commission from
the Austrian government he has been FOR
a considerable time i'll America for The
purpose OF studying the agricultural con-
ditions there, his opinion must comieana
respect. Professor Wilclzens writes:
The danger of competition in c.itt'e
for slaughter is great and fatal enc,
undoubtedly, for the German farmer. 1t
is, moreover, small comfort TO the Ger
man meat producer to know that the
finest cattle are not yet brought iIom
North Amer ca 10 Germany, because they
can not stand the wide transportation
What is imported at present is cattle
from the western part of North America,
which are raised almost without expans.
and cheapiG fattele from the rich sap
ply of maize. Who knows, however,
bu5 that in a short time appliances Tor
transportation may be introduced which
may permit tie importation of the lnest
slauG hterhuusa wares?
81 am convinced that if American
business men Lall an enterprise to life.
they will bring it through with all their
energy and i'll spite of obstacles, even il
there is a loss at the outset. l also do
not doubt but that AmeIic., in the near
future will introduce into Germany, with
profit, great numbers OF living food C 1t
tie. We, moreover, dare not hold - the
conviction thar Germany, in the mas IS
of agricultural production, Can C2mPase
with North America. At present the
United States have about 9G0, 900 600
acres OF surveyed, unaCcupIed land,
which tbs Congress government either
gives away for nothing for hOme>teais,
or sells at very low prices as PEE enptiDn
or timber claims Nine hundred aud
sixth million acres are about 1855 600
square kilomcttrS, that is, a territory IS
large as all of western Europe (wi.l the
exception Of Rls iia and Turkey in heir
old frontie.s) BESIDES this. the United
States possesses about $40, 600 900 aCr
more OF uDsurveyed and unoccupied land,
making altogether $500 600, 900 acres 81
unoccupied iani, or about 300, eco
square kilOmeters. What can tbichiy
populated Europe, with a population
five times as great IS the United States,
do against such a stretch o; virgin soil?
Tue state of Dakota alone, with $50 1913
square kilometeTs Qarger than Hungary
with it's 322, 2S5 kilometcrs), has only
80, $40 square kilometars settled, yet it
produces about 10000, 600 hecso!ters Of
wheat. This state, which at the nome
stands first in immigration Quot only Gf
Europeans. but much more Of An;eli-
CAM, is only beginning to be settled 3ni
already has two overland railways Che
Northern Pacific and the Manitoba 10 .ds)
which transport its masses of wheat -
cheap rates to the ports OF Lakes Suphsl-
or and Michigan, as we'll as to the
Atlantic Ocean. lie may expect that
when Dakota Is fully settled which will
be in five, or at the latest ten, years, this
state alone will produce 10000 600
hectoiters of wheat. Dakota and
Minnesota. which is just as fruitful, lie,
so to speak, at the gates of Chicago, the
great market of the world for grain aud
cattle. In the year 1888 in the mraket Of
Chicago, there we're 2 81, 712 of swine
aud 1, 515, Ola Of sheep. believe that
these numbers, at least in beef, will be
doubled in ten years, when the Congress-
government will have completed the
irrigation which it now has in view of
the so called American desert. With
this comes the irrigation of the states o.
Colorado, Montana and Washington
which likewise, will be commenced with
Amer lean energy. Already American
engineers are on their way to Europe to
study our plans of irrigation, and the
American eonsuls in Europe have r.
ceIved instructions to send to America