Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-12
] FOR EACH OF US.
ITS THE VALUE OF THE UNPREc- EDENTED CORN CROP.

WXfn Crop Meaus.
 5fother Nature has been generous to 58raisers of Indian corn this year, for 3s6z has caused to grow and ripen crop S|51h as was never seen before. Two Unions three hundred and fifty millions of bushels will have been harvested Wlaen the last ears are shelled. The ]a1pest previous yield recorded, that of 180l, was 2,060, 154, 000-alnost 300,- 900, 900 bushels less than is expected fhIs year.
 Ill 1899 the crop reached only little more than 1.500, 900, 900 bushels; in 1893 it fell 9 little lower even than fhat, and in 1894 it was almost three lines as much below 2,000, 900, ,000
 b8shels as it will this year be above {Eat enormous quantity.
 No adequate idea of the real magni- IEIde of this years crop can be obtained rom figures, nor is the mind much bet i6r informed through the calculations of the ingenious sharp who states that if ..f .fhe entire crop were placed in half bush q measures, piled one above another so as to form tall, round pillar of corn, tswould reach more than twice as far i1Ito space as from the earth to the moon, providing that none of the half sbashel measures was whirled off.
 If the corn were placed on a half mile sauare, the pile would be about 419 feet high-higher than any of our modern sAyscraping buildings. The total weight
 of the mass would be 136, 300, ,O00, 900 Rounds, or 68, ,000 tons. & Wouldn' t it be remarkable sight zthat enormous pile of yellow corn? And
 Wouldnt it have furnished magnifi- cent text for the story that had to last Forever in order to save the story teller's head, running, "Then another locust eame and got another kernel of corn?'
 Looking at the crop as money pro- ducer the figures arc not less stupendous
 Suppose the corn to be worth 50 cents E bushel ill New York, the crop of 1895
 Will be worth $1, 175, ,000,000 (enough
 to build 79 Brooklyn bridges, by the sxay, with 8 little surplus of $5,00o,- n00), and will put that amount of mon sey or it's equivalent i'll circulation in his country.
 | 4 little reflection will show how bene- 6cial that will be to everybody. The =Nord everybody" is used adyisedly, 6ince, although the larger proportion of
 fhe money, say 30 cents bushel, or $705, 900, GOO, will go. to the farmers, About two-thirds as much, or $470, ,000,
 1000, will go to the railroads for trans porting it. In other words, the farmers Will receive the equivalent of $10 for Every man, woman and child in the
 Limited States, and the railroads will receive the equivalent of $6. 66 for ev- cry inhabitant, making altogether $83. B for every family of i've
 M While the farmers and the railroad ewners will be the greatest beneficial ries, yet the good work of the crop will De only begun when it has been felt by fhose two classes. It is difficult to say
 where it will stop
 To railroad trainhands, conductors, Engineers, etc., the task of moving the eorn from the west to the seaboard |1neans continuous work for months at good wages. Track hands, too, will be Skept busy, for heavy traffic necessitates |eonstant supervision of permanent way
 Coal miners will feel the magic infu-
 Fence, since it requires tons of coal to
 moye bushels of corn. Every mechanic
 employed in carshops, locomotive shops sand railroad iron rolling mills will be |zhelped, for more cars. engines and rails &will be required than would have been <had the crop been small
 z2 But not more than half the work of the corn yield of 1895 has yet been con |sidered. Of the $7o5, GOO, 900 that will Ego to the farmers only very small pro- :portion will remain with them.
 Farmers will be able to buy clothing,
 hats, shoes, wagons, sleighs, machinery, Furniture and carpets, books, pianos, bi #cycles, watches and an enormous varie- sty of the products of human skill and #labor Mills and shops and factories, #wholesale, jobbing and retail establish #ments that were barely keeping along
 last year, will be rushing with busi- &ness, and workman and capitalist alike #north, east, south and west, will all re Sceive benefits. s Does it seem unlikely to the reader Sthat the cotton belt and sugar cane re- zion, where no corn is raised, will come Fin for their share of the good things? IA moments reflection will bring to zmind the fact that when the farmers of Eflle west have plenty of money they are much heavier consumers of cotton and sugar and other southern products than E Ethey are in other years, and so there Zcannot fail to be an enhanced demand for these products during the 12 months Beginning with the delivery of 1895's corn crop
 Further than all this, the railroads and the railroad men will get second wave, so to speak, from the transporta tlon of manufactured goods from the east to the west that will practically pay for the corn, and the producers of