Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1892-08-16
u.s1.as canp PROSPECTS.

We ar. daily In rrCeipt from all sec
tions of ,h- West, aud particularly from
the t.ortions wh.r. most of the leaning
on farm aud city propertle. has occurred
within the past eight year., OF very
favorable rport. on the crop situation,
aud Communications tellln, ~ the great
IN improved prosperity of the country
In general. Everybody appears cheer
ful aud confident that the harvest all
prov. hOuntiful aud that an even greater
reduction In mortgage indebtedness will
h. effected from this wears crops than
resulted from those Of 1891.
Prom Kansas Ne are advised thst
farmers are now In the midst of an
enormous wheat harvest; that favorable
weather prevails, that the grain is of
good quality even "a far west az the
Colorado line, aud that there Will H.
NOR. wheat produced this year than IN
any year In the entire history Of the
state. This u cheering new. and Por-
tend. much for eastern investors as well
A. for kanss. farmers.
Secretary Mohlrr. In special crop re-
port Just issued, places the average Yield
IL wheat In kansa. at 1913 bushel. per
acre or total product OF CO,l21,ol6
bu.hel. Of winter wheat, aud s,ili.i
bushels of spring wheat, or grand to-
tai of ~. So, la bushels. This u Indeed
an enormou. yield, and at the present
market price for September wheat. 90 to
IS 3-ic., would yield return OF over
sl.,eD,Uc. In addition to this there !.
the corn and cat crop which bids fair to
Weld heavy, but 81 course IL is as yet
too early Ia form estimates Of either aud
p.rtIcuIarly the latter which Ia. yet To
escape possible drouth and hot winds.
When thre.hed should the wheat yield
equal the figures given by Secretary
Mohler, all former wheat records OF
Kansas will be broken, and, In fact. that
of any other state In the Union, by
several million bushels. Prom Ne
braska, the Dakotas, and farther west,
crop. promise almost equally ne abun-
d.nt as In Kansas, demonstrating Tor
certainty that the great West, from crop
returns alone, will continue 10 emerge
from the general era of depression
through which IL has been passing, aud
raw II. debts 10 the last dollar. In fact.
there appears q rcsolute purpose all
through the borrowing section OF the
central West Ia liquidste all mortgage
Indebtedness As rapidly as possible.
For the wandering vsgsbonds who
Iolped the Alliance for political pur-
po.e. only, there seems To be No occa-
.Iou for earning living. save by honest
toll. for the ..croakers" have ceased To
croak. aud the Alliance IL rapidly dying
for ~sut Of members and an excuse for
an existence. The farmers have settled
down To business, having no further use
for de,nagogues to magnify their mis-
fortune. or belittle their resources. The
crops are too bounteous, aud nature,
which seemingly has been heretofore ca-
pricious and unkind, appears to reproaeh
Them for their falthlessness In the In
hermit resources about them, and for the
defamation Of their states In which they
have 80 fooli.hly and unreasouably In
dulged.
Thl. IL the farmers year, and although
prices may not rule AZ high as last sea-
.op. when the fsmlne-stricken sections
M the old world demanded our surplus
hrc.d- -stuff. aud stifiened our values, yet
the average returns promise To yield
good results for labor and capital ex-
pended.