Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-12-06
When American Farmers Will be
Prosperous.

Prosperous.
When Eli Perkins Melville d. Laudon)
was passing through St Paul yesterday he
was asked when he thought the Minnesota
farmer would be prosperous
He will be prosperous, said Mr.. Per
kiBs, ''when he can get 81 4 bushel for
whea.."
And when will that come
at will never come from Eurupe. Eng
land will never take dollar wheat from this
country. because she can always buy
heat for seventy-fve cents in Sweden and
Norway and ffty-cent wheat in India.
When whea. is worth 81 bushel in Min
nesota 1t can not 60 to England. But dollar
wheat will very soon come to this country,
through home consumption snd a decrease
in its production. The surplus wheat which
now goes ont and which drsgs down the
farmer is about 10000 900 bushels,
But how can this he stopped or less
eneds"
-Four things will accomplish this
decrease of wheat ia less than two years
and the farmer will be on top again ard the
con mining manufacturer will be under"
"Wbat are they
"Well, first, the cheap Canadian whest
and barley, made on So land in Manitoba,
is being Rep. back BY the twenty enc cert
penalty. They can no longer buck their
SO and against your SIS land in Minnesota
and Dakota"
what else will help toe farmer out:"
.'This penalty against Canada will keep
out Is, 900 900 bushels of the 60, 000,0
surplus. Then the beet sugar interest
which has teen grandly successful in
Nebraska, is spreading. Soon millions of
acres of land now 10 wheat and corn will be
put into besis. Like Germany, We will
make the sugar We want, ard 500
200 coo annually will nos be sent
to Germany. The sugar factory at Grand
leland, Neb., il turning out POO barrels of
white sugar day. So successful has sugar
beet raising been along the Platte river
that farmers are making more money out
of il than in raising wheat and corn. Other
sugar plants are goiog up in Lincoln, Nor
! folk, and Sioax CITY, Ia, ard now they are
contracting wiih farmers up at Aberdeen,
S. D., for beets and business men are put
| ting up a sugar factory there. In two
years this sugar interest will change thous-
ards OF acres Of wheat land to beets. This
will cut down the surplus of wheat still
more"
| ''And what next?'
why Mime sots and Dakota farmers are
going into sheep. All around Bismarck ard
westward to Montana sheep are tski1g the
| place of wheat | saw car loads Of horses
90 the Great Northern train yestei dsy-
horses that bad been used in the wheat
I felds-comiug South and East to be traded
| for sheep. This will take cut more wheat
/ land"
And them" continued Mr., Perkins,
''the future Of fsx is growing in Minne-
sofa A fax factory is going up in Min
naspolis. The fiber is 20 be woven iuto fine
linen. Other linen factories are being
talked about. Iowa has two linen factories
already in operation. and using fax grown
on old wheat fields"
80 to sum up said Eli, "the culture
Of wool, fax. sugar, and the stopping on
the border Of the cheap wheat from millions
of acres of cheap land in Manitoba--l say
all these tbirgs will 60 away with the sur
plus of GO coo, coo bushels of wheat which
has dragged down the price of wheat frcm
| 81 %, where it belongs, and a price that it
is worth rs human food. to seventy cents.
In two years, with our tariff as it is now,
his wilt all be accomplished, AMI the
! Northwestern farmers will be on top Their
lands will 20 up and prosperity will come
again. ST Paut. MINI, Pioneer Press.