The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
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The pouring into the channels of trade Of this
bns ms so @o SadH, Gr ths greater Part Td. OF It: j. what
sent travelling men scurrying. over tho State
from al the jo6bing centres, has swollen tho
bank deposits, has enabled the farmers to pay
on their mortgages. and has made money easy
Last winter, when the populist Legislature
passed the law prohibiting tho collection OF any
dsnGiency Judgment In MORTGAGE foreclosures
SSSSo f to he s sS.tisesd nit T. o compelled Lee the mort:
Of the great loan companies OF tho East ordered
tto agents not TO lend any more money on Ne
braska realty. But since the news OF her great
crops has become known the ban has been re-
moved from Nebraska. and money is easy TO get
Panies still fight shy q city property; The best
100000 of money lent on farms in this STATIC
mas been repaid within the past seven months.
now the companies sock extensions where be-
fore they demanded payment. But tho loan
companies have learned one lesson very we'll,
n~ecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. to
LEND only on farms situated in certain counties.
The great mortgagelifter in Nebraska this
Senr c waS ne hs wheat crop. Ths ease with which
deld Of corn stretching as far as tho undulsting
year 1t has been different. The corn crop lat
year was normou but tho comparatively
ture on q more extended scale. The result
has astonlsned even those who have been plead.
Ing for for. ai Yer d Of crops for years; There
in Nebraska 10 a fine, round berry, but It 10
rather hard. The Chicago elevator men give
country, and Minnesota and bstota, and have
against Nebraska, wheat from q
dealers has been formed to attempt TO overc ONE
THIS prejudice, and IA committee will go to Chi
The Burlington reports show that winter
Wheat was almost uniformly q good crop
Sn,oughout the state, The Yield ranged from
average was about twenty-five. In "A number of
$nstSnees the winter wheat crop was raised on
acre., The railroads statistician figures that
" All TINS crop we're marketed it would re:
twenty. 1--WE cars holding $40 bushels each.
Some OF the Burlinglon's special reports. from
GSarls. long s.ff iRiGs: n care F yiFS & int jsssIsoa
county. threshed nfty acres of wheat which
s sRs css ps ~ a to tss ws stl.' 'S .. d t%Serty,sls Sus hsas
s.vsn acres ssu WHICH y fisHidHs{j thirty fsryf SasS.l sT &c IL
ssSSn5 1891, lean. ,ns to Esbrssts in 5hs year 1850
cash enough only to make a small payment on
goo aores Of railroad land. which l bought. to.
e%hinery., / have, looked after my farm person.
Ally, and always had profitable crops, except in
l6sa. now have . weli.impToysd farm OF $40
acres with no membranes, and other property,
acted $40 TO the acre for sIl cultivated land,
ana my 1897 crop. will average 20 per cent.
higher because OF better prices"
sherman county 10 in tho newer settled por.
ii9n OF the state. The crop agent there reports:
WA. Wilson, who lives near Ashton. threShed
5000 bushels of wheat from $50 acres. Carsten
Trueleen sowed 2la bushels OF seed last spring
End threshod out of IL ll5 bushels. George
Iruelsep had eighty acres and IL averaged TWEEN
lynne bushels 10 tho acre"
,Unfayorablo climatic conditions toward the
elose OF the season reduced the corn yield much
below the 800, 900, 600 bushels estimated in
thisy rear have caused many farmers to turn more
attention TO that cereal. ana next years yield
II expected to be immensely Increased.
These are the reasons for the blissful content
that has come To the husbandmen all over the
State; the reasons that have caused tho bank
ors to wonder what they will do with all the
p9ney accumulating IN their vaults; that have
induced q general revival of business which
Rany believed impossible for years after the
A0ugh Of dSspopd Into Mhioh business Was sunk