The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-09-16
Fertile Fields Smile Abundantiy on
Well-Directed Energy.

A'SEIstc NlciNs SHllic aDuuuuntty Oh
Weli-Directed Energy.
Philadelphia Public Ledger: Appnr-
emily there is to be no ebb in the
prosperity of the west for the next
year. The enormously bonntiful crops
low being garnered there are without
precedent, and, subject to fuller re-
ports OF the wheat yield in Argentina.
Russia and India, it is probable that
Il western farmers will enjoy at
least another season of dcbt-paying
good tines Allowing much for the
contingency of a heavy wheat yield
i'll other portions of the world, whose
output must be reckoned with in fix
ing prices, the immensely of the yield
in Nebraska and Kansas will COM
pensate for a moderate decline in
prices, If this should occur. From
our western exchanges it appears that
the yield of cereals in Iowa, Missouri,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Illinois. is SO inconveniently
prolific that it is very difficult in many
districts to find hands for the harvest
fields, and pheno@enal wages for this
kind of labor are quoted. The proba-
bilities are that the farmers of the
broad wheat and corr belts of the
country will soon be enabled to pay
off their mortgages and to enjoy the
comfortable assurance that they have
a deposit in bank for the proverbial
ems the prospect in all callings.
According to the estimate of the
Chicago Inter Ocean the Nebraska
onr, nror If lncf "a 1En nOn Opn l,,eI,-
| els, a wonderful exhibit, is to be more
also almost incredibly encouraging.
In 1898 its corn yield was 130,ooo,Qoo.
The corn prophets are claiming $780,
! with reasonable margin allowed for
destructive agencies. The return from
this vast crop of Il single state will
reach gigantic figures and it will slim
ulate trade in every direction. The
credit of the state will be increased.
Hundreds of mortgages held by east
ern mortgages, who have regarded
their holdings as desperate, will be re-
demeed in full. With more ready
money in hand the teeming west will
buy more Eastern commercial and
transportation interests will receive
their dividend OF the harvest. What
the Kansas corn yield means for trans
portation interests is well described
in an interview with one of the corn
experts, published in the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. He AYERS that it will
require $4,000 cars to move the crop
gathered along the principal railroad
outlet for Kansas corn. AT each OF
the ninety stations along the road and
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demand for 600 ears. Some Of these
cars each.
With these statistics before us, "it
is not surprising that at times the
transportation of cereals to the sea-
hoard is suspended for a season by
that certain accompaniment of a
heavy haryest-a Car famine A
third of the crop will be kept at home
to feed stock. The Chicago Inter
Ocean says that in nearly all the west
ern states the corn growers are also
breeders of cattle and hogs; ''if they
cannot get a decent price for their
corn they keep it and feed it to the 1--WE
stock. and sell the stock at n figure
that gives them a good profit for the
corn and the work Of converting it
INTO meat.
The increasing price Of meat will
stimulate stock breeding. and more
corr will be used for this purpose.
Whether the scarcity of cattle be tic-
titious and artificial or real. the high
err quotation for meat will invite more
western farmers into the business OF
cattle raising. Prices must eventually
fall by this enlarged supply. The enor-
nous corn crop may have Il very i'm
portant bearing upon this question
and operate for the benefit of men.
consumers sooner or later. The west.
ern prosperity is really continental in
its effects. It is impossible to fore
east how many millions of dollars are
to be added TO the available resources
of the nation by the harvest of 1890.
India, Russia, the Argentine Republic
and other wheat-growing portions OF
the world are factors Of the mighty
problem. In any event, the western
farmers will have abundant cause for
rejoicing.