Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-11

Wnere every one would be law unto
himself The nation would be fully JUS
titled in stamping out anarchy with a
merciless foot.
This Haunting of anarchy in the face
of the people, this rubbing it in, will
bear seed in strengthening public opin-
ion against it until action is demanded
of our law makers for it's complete ex-
termination.
THE CORN CROP.
The Iowa Homestead does not draw
rosy pictures of the corn crop. believing
that the drouth has had a serious effect
upon it, and that the surplus will be
light, tho the total yield may reach
billion bushels. 1t says:
A month of time has passed since the
drouth was broken in most sections of
the corn belt. We all have had time to
see what the corn fields would do under
the influence of rain after being held at
standstill for so long. Some have said
there would be plenty of corn, and 9TH
ers maintained there would be compare
lively none. None of these prognostica-
tors We're right. AT the present stage of
the growth of the crop in the main corn
belt it is clear that the early planted
corn will not recover to any great ex-
tent. 1t is also clear that what product
we get of the early fields will not be of
good merchantable quality Many of the
ears will be cobs with scattering kernels.
The consensus of opinion among farm
ers is to the effect that the early planted
fields of corn must go for what is ordi
narily termed feed for stock cattle. This
feed will be good enough to keep stock
cattle in excellent condition, but will not
have sufficient of concentrated food to
furnish cattle for market unless it is fed.
in very large quantities, SO that there
would be considerable waste in the
Hcearser parts. Now If we had sufficient
data to determine the proportion of the
corn that was planted early we could
determine pretty closely as to the eN-
pectancy of the present crop; because
It is, pretty clearly to be seen that all
HE late planted corn in many sections
will make good crop. and the early
earn in much of the more northern sec
tons of the corn belt will also MAKE
COCO crop provided the weather con-in-
ues favorable for its development. No
lne should attempt to magnify the pres
ptct of the corn crop for the benaSt of
the oonsar,er or the local land spss.ula
tor. neither should any one attemnt 10
magnify the crop in the hope of benefit
ing himself. The equities of commerce
in the exchange of services between pre-
Queer and consumer demand that all
shall know and accept the truth about
t,le l resent short corn crop. IL is surely
safe TO place the whole crop OF The
Cnitcc States at billion bushels. T.lece
are i.,any sections that will scarcely
have bushel for the market and none
will nave the usual surplus. When Sai:-
s.,s and Nebraska fail in a corn crop II
s easy to mf. rtain a corner en- corr.
bit when Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and
Indiana join these states in a genera,
failure there can not be enough cora to
.nake a corner. Some say, oh. we VIII
iced wheatv' But the price of wheat is
about 60 cents FER bushel at the local
markets. and bushel of wheat is worth
but little more than a bushel of corn in
feeding value, hence 61-cent wheat
means at least 5O-cent corn before the
wheat will begin to take its place. Be-
secs, there are millions of bushels cf
corn consumed in manufacture, for
which wheat can not be used as SUB
stitute Follow a line thru southern
Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, south
eastern South Dakota, eastern Nebras-
ka, eastern Kansas. southwest and
northern Missouri Illinois, Indiana and
southern Michigan to the place of Degtn-
ming. the corn field of the United States,
ana the largest area for the growth of
corr in the world, has been surrounded,
ard the area from whence comes the
corn to fill the elevators and suppl, the
export trade. When this whole section
i is pinched with drouth the elevators
must go empty and the export trade go
begging Any one who has ever studied
crop conditions ought to know that
when a general drouth has been re-
ported from this section. lasting from
thirty-fve to forty-five days. according
to locality, and accompanied with ex-
IRENE heat and hot winds, there will be
q very light supply of surplus corn. The
drouth has written the conditions on the
wall. and the crop will be found want
ling. Car window observations and ho-
tel chats result in only poor guessing
and confusion at best. The way to esti-
mate the probable yield of field of
corn is to count the number of ears that
promise to be of merchantable quality
lin row of eighty rods long. multiply
this number by nine and divide the
Iproduct by one hundred and twenty
The quotient will be the number of
bushels per acre. This rule will give a
result very close to the actual yield of
the field if fair average of rows be
lsen as he unit for the estimate