Catoctin clarion., 1898-10-13
Catoctin Furnace Items.

Miss Mamie lsanOgle has gone TO liar
mony Grove where sue expects to spend
some time with Mrs. Charles Wachter.
Mss Lulu Gilds is visiting Mrs. Charles
Wiles of Frederick.
Miss H. M. Shook has accepted the posi-
tion as head nurse at Montevuo Hospital
Frederick Md.
Miss Florence Taylor OF Hartford County.
who has been visiting her Uncle Mr.. Nelson
Price and family, has returned home, to the
regret Of her many friends here.
Mrs. VIM. Sweeney is visiting friends in
Pa.
Miss MocPherson and Miss Lydia Devil
bliss attended the love feast at Graceham on
Sunday lust.
Charles Clark, one of our harness makers.
pulled up stakes" In Thurmont, and came
home. They still use rope and hickory withes
up there for harness material and bindertwine
for mending purposes, 30 there's not much
show for harness maker using leather.-
The Carroll Record.
[The above bit OF gratuitous menducity
requires hut word the young man Is lazy
and much given to display Of himself on the
streets; he may have been said to be at his
place Of business scmisometimea, but never
failed to be at the railroad station when q
train arrived; the latter was bis pet weak
ness. He naturally feels like saying some
thug ugly about the people before whom he
made such display of his talents, after bav-
ing come 60 we'll recommended. HIS busi-
ness career here compromised every one of
those good Taneytown friends who vouched
for his industry: they should learn of it,
ED, CLARION.
The WHEAT SUPPLY.-At varying inter.
vals statlsticians and scientists come to the
front with figures to prove that tue time is
approaching when the worlds wheat supply
will be insufficient to feed the people. Back
in the eighties, Prof. Woods Davis, in an
article in the Fosum. proved by startling
array of statistics that by the year 1895 the
United States would be importing wheat.
Now it is Sir William Crooke, president Of
the British Association. That learned gen.
tleman, in recent speech at Bristol. Eng,
dealt with the wheat production of the Uni
ted States and the whole world. Some OF
his figures arc based upon fact and some on
fancy, and fancy Is never more imposing
tuan when It is fortified by columns of hg.
ures. The population of the United King
dom, Sir William declared, consumes annu.
ally 14O, 600, ,Oo0 bushals Of wheat. an average
of 9 bushels per capita, and there is an In.
crease each year in the amount consumed Of
1000 900 bushels. OF the amount used at
home the United Kiagdom produces 10000
900 bushels and imports 100000 largely
frotn the United States. In other words. the
people of Great Britain and Ireland can only
raise enough bread to serve them for twelve
or fourteen weeks of the year and must buy
it from foreign countries the remainder Of
the time
The United States has been exporting an.
nually an average of $4,000 900 bushels.
This is the largest amount exported by any
one country, Russia commng next with %,
600 900 bushels. The Unined States, says
Sir William, has NO longer any virgin prairie
to add to their grain fields and no increase
In the production can be made except by
reducing the acreage of corn, hay and other
necessary crops. Therefore; lie concludes
that within generation we will need all the
wheat we can raise for our bwn bread and
seed and will haye to buy more. From Rus.
sia he also looks for decrease In the exports
this withdrawal of the supply from the two
great wheat exporting countries would leave
the rest ofthe world at SIC, 100000. annually
Increasing at the rate of 100000. The
present requirement of these bread eaters is
1924 600 900 bushels for bread and seed. He
also estimates that the world only produced
this year, the crop Of 1897 0s, 1891 10000
or 4O3,OO0,00O less than tho requirements.
That there was sufficient bread to 20 around
in the past WAS due TO the large surplus
coming over from number of years of plenty
The crop OF 1897 was not up to the requir.
mcnts, and the surplus which has been clog.
gipg the market for so many years has dis.
appeared.
1t lie safe to infer from these figures and
from known facts that the time Is not far
distant when the farmer will he able to sell
his wheat for a higher price, giving him
better profit in raising It But the idea that
the world cannot produce enough to supply
Its population as far ahead as We can see Is
founded on falacy. In the first place. the
number of wheat bread caters and the amount
of wheat they eat are not fixed but depend
largely upon the price of wheat. AS the
price Of wheat decreases the amount used
increases. Let -four to TO ten dollars barrel
and mllions will abandon wheat bread and
eat rye. corn and potatoes in larger quantity
Sir William Crooke is much impressed with
the increased ratio in the numbers using
wheat bread in late years. That increase is
largely due to the fact that as soon as wheat
dropped below dollar bushel some years
back mutitudes gave up eating black bread
and took 10 eating wheat bread
Sir William falls into the same error that
misled Mr.. Woods Davis. He assumes that
because the United States has no more virgin
prairie the limit Of Wheat production has
been reached. Let wheat so up to dollar
and q half bushef and there would be hardly
farmer in the land who would not be able
to sow an additional field. In 1890 the wheat
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