The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-11
HIGHER CORN PRICES
Rave COME 10 STAY.
Consumption Of This Cereal Has
Oyertaken Production, Ex-
pert Snow Declares.
NO ENLARsEMEN1 OF CORN AREA
N the Meanwhile tho Demand Has In
creased Over 400,OOo,ooO Bushels
More Than Few Years Ago
View Uses for Corn.

Moro Than n Few Years Ago
View Uses for Corn.
During the last five years there has
\ been an enormous permanent Increase
i In the consumption of corn, and the
4 result Is that consumption has not only
n definitely overtaken production, but
has absorbed the surplus Of earlier
years of large production. says b. w.
Snow in the Chicago Record Herald.
" "a few years ago a crop of 100000 900
bushels provided a surplus to carry
over for use in the occasional years
which must inevitably come when less
than normal crop is gathered.
IL Under present conditions there is no
surplus to carry over, nor will there
be until there shall be a further heavy
y increase In production. an increase
which is not possible except by a rad
4 fcal disturbance of the present relations
OF one of our crops to another In the
4 distribution of acreage. For two years
Il we have been living from hand to
T mouth, and we have reached posi-
ton where any crop shortage, say d
crop even only Slightly under 1000, 000,-
q 200 bushels, would result In insufficient
Il corn TO meet requirements.
Increased Feeding Requirements.
The principal factors in this in
& creased consumption may be readily
Il examined. We are now killing 10000, 900
"A hogs each year more than we killed
& IN 1895. This means Il demand that
i must be filed for 200,00O.000 bushels
rs more corn each year. The man who
raises the corn also raises the hogs,
Il and whatever price corn may be bring
Il Ing IN the market, the price of meat
y Keeps pace, so that the farmer who
y puts his corn into pork always realizes
more than the market price for his
grain. One bushel Of corn makes
4 twelve pounds of pork, SO that at pres
E5elat prices of hogs this corn brings the
I producer 65 cents per bushel.
Az: We are marketing now one hale mil
hon cattle year more than in 1896,
ana this represents another fifty mill
: hon bushels permanent increase in
K feeding requirements Of corn. In addi-
tion the past five years have brought
\ about change In the matter OF range
production OF beef. Formerly cattle
were sold for slaughter direct from the
grass. Now a large and rapidly In
oreasing percentage Of range cattle
/ are finished on corn at feeding sta
4 SloES. This change. which is becoming
mere anu more general, creates per-
smA nent y increasing annual demand for
sAhotner large amount of corn.
0luceso and starch.
the glucose and starch manufacture
s.srs ne ne become important factors I'M
Noe the last ten years. and since 1895
the consumption 81 corn in this form un
sI0f Inanufac ture has Increased by lifty
milliOnS bushels q year.
4 aSs AK lew Years ago we only exported
sSc0Fns when the price was 80 low as to
] ma ke ~ production unprofitable Now
The reign demand takes an increas-
I we amount ach year, almost without
regard 70 price. In Ave years our ex-3
ports HAYS increased by more than
one hundred million bushels. and this
Isasl aSe has been at prices that earlier
/; ynS the decade would have almost bro
htbtted any exports NJ;
s other line OF consumption, which
'sck mot be definitely measured, bnt
0l corn Tor human food. There are In
the 0Nntry now some thirty Ave mills
81 vote to the manufacture OF corn
s0rQQuCta on commercial SCALE most
so1 them new or enlarged within the
LIT Few years. The amount OF corn
lireda Nv these mills is rapidly IN
,cle4 and they are already factors
@SQS ~ GonGide cred In corn distribution
mills In central Illinois town
how otlaume the surplus corn grown
dtus Of fifty miles In the
XSEX$MAnrt@ OF the best part OF the corn
s13elf pa xinE prices that the Chicago;
not alIal. S8 Similar mills for
afalss FAC slre Of corn food products;
IRE kelne built In Europe, Notably III
slaee1 ~ great tsicrease In the food use az
The nex few years, as We have
s4t hOfne tn the past few.
1Ssss:S Ss The Szt0wth Ia Demand