El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-06

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tinction of having q summer resort an6
a winter resort, both of the first rank
HIS GOLDEN YEAR
The Western Farmer Is Generally In
Good Condition.
Richmond Times.
Western farmers are likely to be
swamped with money next winter;
Reports from all the great agricultural
states of the middle west indicate that
the crops now being harvested and
season will excel those of any former
year. This is true in Illinois this
Wisconsin, throughout Iowa, Missouri,
Minnesota, the Dakotas and Nebraska
From everywhere comes reports of
phenomenal crops. The farmers are
calling for help for the harvest fields
and are Offering wages that would
| have seemed impossible a few years
ago.
Last year Nebraska produced $780,
600, 900 bushels of corn, and it wac
called great crop. This season S
yield is estimated at 800, OOO, 900 BUSH
els, or more than double the yield of
1898. TIE Kansas crop last year was
40. 600, 900 bushels. Crop experts COM
pute the yield this year in Kansas at
given by state officials. Full allow
ance, they say, has been made for dam
age by grasshoppers, hot winds and
other adverse conditions. The same
story is told by other corngrowing
states.
The wheat crop of the northwest
simply dazes the farmers and they are
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harvest 1t. They are making frantic
appeals for harvest hands at wages
running from 81. so to So day and en-
ployment agents are overrun with APP
plicatiOns for men to 60 out in the
fields and gather the crops In the
meantime the women and children
have been pressed into service and
have dropped homework to help in the
harvest field. The corn crop of the
nois through Missouri, Kansas and Me-
brasks, now gives promise that the
coming seasons proceeds will pay off
the last mortgage and put al organ, a
Bible and q plush album in every home
in the district.
The effect of this tremendous crop
can scarcely be realized by the people
of the cities or the farmers of the east.
The big crops of last year, together
ed off all mortgages on western farms.
The prospects for the present year are
that the farmers will clean up the last
vestige of debt and provide themselves
with ell necessary machinery, furnish
their homes with comfort, if not with
luxury, and have money in the banks
for future use.
The corn fields of Iowa, Nebraska
and Missouri are almost beyond the be-
Of Of hn hoo
them over. The corn stands high above
the heads of the taIlest men, and, bar
ring some unlooked-for and appalling
the yield will be almost un-
precs dented. One good result of the
years of the poor crops is that the
farmers have developed along lines
allied with the raising of crops. Time
was when corn was worth so little that
the farmers used it for fuel. But the
farmers of the west and northwest
have found way to use their corn
without selling it to the elevator man |
1t whatever the latter chooses to give |
IN nearly every one of the western |
states the growers of corn have become |
breeders of cattle aud hogs. If they |
get decent it to the livestock |
and sell the stock at figure that gives
Them good profit for the corn and the
work of converting 1t into meat
l.
Oakotas the wheat crop as it stands to-
lay presents picture to gladden. the
hearts of the farmers and of all other
people as we'll. It is one of the great
,st crops ever grown on the western
,raiaies. OF course, there will be To-
al mishaps, such as the hail storm in
Jass and Trail counties, in North
Dakota, where the crops on some 2OO,-
100 acres of land were destroyed. But
While these accidents are deplorable to
he district and the people interested,
hev affect only in small way the gen.
raj conditions.
This tremendous crop in the west
means as much to the merchant as to
he farmer. With debts paid and
money in the bank, the farmer becomes
good customer. And when the mer-
hant is selling freely for cash the
obber and the manufacturer are kept
'usy supplying him, aud the manufac-
urer then reaches out for more men
o whom he can offer permanent work
and so it goes down the entire line.
md, to go step further, the increased
lumber of sborers In the factories call
Or more food supplies, and thus the
again helps the farmer. IS
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