Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-09
Review of the Causes of the Presen!.
Phenomenal Advance in
frice
Confidence in an Enormous Yield
shattered by the Latest Crop
Reports.
Loss Of Acreage Thru Flowing Up.
Large-Rust and smut in
Kansas.


dence in a great spring wheat yield of
250.000.0OO bushels at least, the north
western grain people have suddenly
shown trepidation lest a large propor-
ation5of the yield be lost. The advance in
price and the alarm over the crop out
come have both developed within less
than week.
The whole country is now Interested
in the outcome. Sensational losses We're
suffered in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Indiana and Illinois last fall from in
scots. In those four states the promise
was reduced 50,0O0.0oO bushels before
the winter had started. 1t was taken
without great excitement, because
there was great prospect west of the
Mississippi, and because it was taken
for granted the losses in winter wheat
would be an incentive for bigger har-
vest in the northwest.
The losses east of the Mississippi
river have been inflicted and are ire
parable. This makes a possible loss in
the northwest the more serious to the
whole country, to merchants and rail-
roads most directly.
The failure in Ohio, Michigan and In
diana is the most complete in quarter
of a century, due almost entirely to the
presence or The Hessian nv In numbers
without a parallel. This condition was
pointed out last December and the
present situation accurately fore-
scasted. The loss Of acreage thru plow-
ing up or abandonment in some of the
worst afflicted states is little short of
sappalli1,r. removing ct ,tes NJ in,nn,tant
production from ,i,e s,,rn,rss Ia tha do
ticiency class To annreci.,te. tha eytent
of the disaster at,,.r,,ion is invited ~
the Following shosyin,, az area har.
vested last fan Iar,a soY.nI las, fail, am,
nrea now standine for. harvest.
Harvcsted Sown yor Scw
1922. 1870. Standing
ohio =, $780, 200 3,09s,0OO 1,S2S. 900
4 Alichlgan II 10000 l.Sll.Q00 1.dl1,0OOl
Indiana 1890. !, 100 900 .255.0O0 2,015,000
Illinois .......1 1890 1.o02. 900 1,32S, 900
---7------ ----
Total .......S. 100000 1866, 900 65SS. 900
Not only have these states suffered
the acreage loss above Indicated, but
the conditional average upon the area
still standing, afterSentirely eliminating
the worthless fields, is for the three
states first named the lowest ever re-
ported in the history of crop reporting.
So near is the crop a complete failure
that is hardly an exaggeration TO say
Ohio Will not harvest Two bushels for
one sown, and in many counties the
harvest will hardly equal the seed.
To Offset this failure we have phe-
nonenai claims in the way of harvest
possibilities in Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas, mainly the last named a Kan
sas wheat crop is never safe until it has
passed thru the thrasher and is tied
Iup in the bags. In June, 1898, it was
confidently claimed that the state
would harvest lo0,00O,OOo bushels, and
1.-The government report for that month
gave the state average as 1o4, by q CO.
Incidence the same average as was
given in Nav this wear. Al the close of
The season the bureau reported the
Kansas condition at time of harvest at
i4on1y 70. and the crop credited 10 he
bushels. III may also he n,,tefs that re-
! ,t,lr.is on Jane i from the counties Of
central and southern Kansas. where The
i.bulk of the wheat is grown, show the
!. nrt.s.nre "a a ratbar Tinted extent n
is trra az r,,st ard sn,,,t ia nearly q
,t,fra nfstta o1.,,,,,;..s ana haad- lica In
s,5ll arror ,,.5,,n,tio rive d,valn,,.
,oe.nts ~ me naxt tiftann DAYS ,nay
IN. r.dcaI,,. Il :,
;sa
,rba aotrol ,,+,,otion IN tha snr,,n
nh,.,, ,sr,,,or, 4, 60 ~. d,,,,cnl, - rat.r
,,,na m, se.,s 80, for saad,,. ,vas
i,,.b.Ii,. s,tisy.ctor, and -, .ora.,a :,
b,,t s,;1 oanSi,ion. 1,id ~, fovor !, sneG
u,t
$40 ~, ~, ,raaa,,, ~,
s,,l, - 49,, =. =
80. ,.,i,,taII So,
~. ..la.;na 70 An,, - a.. ~ 49,.
tbe 49, -, =, -.
,.a,,,,,,s.aa -, 90,
d;s,rit,tas ra;,,fan "a ~ 80, go 49, ~
81 ,ra,, = tAtt0 - etop slai
4 !. :. a.. =,
har 4, w. - ~
~ ny
20 ~ oo..l-
iiie
ia ~ e..s
y, re.rar,al, 80, .,s - ~, :
a,a,as, ~ ,,e,;. su en nau
80,
go ra,iae 4, .lp. aa .,.ois
Would deteriorate rapidly.
me i mr.. three days Q, June Witnessed
l. a q yfFI ENtfp