The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-06-11
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M. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.


interest; on the FARMS attention viii be
paid than all other cereals combined; in the com
erca arena that day is coming when Of hot wind
Kansas prairies will cause more than al
the weevil and apbis and Hessian fly twenty seasons
The next great European war viii be waged a
shortage in Kansas viii change minds of cabinets and
halt the determination of kings.
What is boosting maize to the throne? One thing-we
killing 100000 hogs each year than We killed
in 1895 One bushel corn makes pounds Of pork
And when we killing million hogs than six
years ago there is demand 20OOoOoOO bushels
corn each year.
We are marketing now 100000 cattle year than
1895 and this represents another 500OOOOO bushels per
manent increase feeding requirements Of Cattle
are no longer sold from the range They put feed
That feed is corn. The demand is permanent
In starch and glucose manufacture 1895 the de
1nand for corn has increased 100000 bushels
Europe is coming to corn. It is growing in favor
in the United States food win greater
here and beyond seas In i've years past corn
ports have increased 1O0OoOOOO bushels
What has been the result? Corn has ceased to be the
widely huctuating cereal jumped from the 80s
the 40 and above the 4Os viii stay The day Of tenen
and ffeencen corn is as surely gone forever the mid
die ages. It viii never come again
W.
duced 2O00OO0OoO bushels year formerly we had only
consuming capacity Of 1750,O000OO He says:
The increase in the annual demand for corn within the
last five years so far as can be tabuated may be pre-
scented follows:
Bushels.
Increased pork production .-..........2 200 100000
Increased beef production ..-........... 50000000
Increased glucose and starch use 100000
Increased exports 1OOO0OOOO
Total 400 900
How s this increasing demand being met? Up to the
present solely from the accumulated surplus from
2000OO00OO busheI crops the years when 75O0O0O0O
measured our total consuming capacity and when
2s00O0O000 bushel crop 13 Is the
the Missouri valley We have not increased
production IN we grew 21O51O3OOO bushels; 1895
215100O000 bushels and long 1889 2112292O0O
bushels big crops prior 1898 that furnished
the for this increased consumption in recent
but this is gone and win present consumption
running ahead of production are to face with
permanently changed economic condition The future viii
see new range values range will depend
entirely upon the conditions. Old precedents Of
that there has ben permanent shifting Of the
relation between supply and demand.
these conditions prices remain permanently
upon much higher level than heretofore Of
things must be brought aboua decrease in consumption
material Increase in production 1t is not easy
how either alternative be worked The great
bulk Of domestic consumption is in the production of
100000 hogs slaughtered annually represent
roundly S0OO00OOO bushels of corn; 100000
tie nearly 100000 bushels The amount fed
teamwork animals grows larger each year with
increased acreage of arabic land.
For none these demands is It economically possible
substitute any other grain important scale For
feed of work animals already grain
reliance that little saving is possible in this direction
The growing manufacture both of commercial
products from viii be but little affected by price con
dons they meet demand that cannot be filed by any
other cereal Practically then export trade offers the
last chance for curtang the annual distribution
trade however is already accustomed to the present
Of values and takes bushels where
one five years ago at a price ten cents bushe lower
Present consumption being of permanent character at
anything Ike the present range values the question
down the possibility of increased production
Our rate Of yield gradually increasing with improved
agricultural practice but this increment too SLOW to
offer any solution Of the problem II crop is TO be
increased must be through an enlargement Of the acre
age The commercial belt limited a definite ter
rtory in states and, broadly speaking every acre
of this belt is already in farming The day of new
farming lands is past There can be no great en-
largemet Of acreage except at the expense of some
other crop area settled system of crop rota
ton which becoming the dominant characteristic of agri
culture the belt such changes could not be peran
without violently affecting the price relation between
the various cereals Broadly speaking the American corn
belt has reached the limit of its expansion crop
largement hereafter way more bushels
produced on each arce.
In American agriculture the corn grower Is the first
producer position where production becomes
practically fixed and demand exceeds supply He has
reached the position Of agricultural monopois and
collectively he the price product Condi
lions of supply demand have so changed that the
present higher range OF values viii permanently
rule the trade huctuatng of changes in
crop results but averaging the 4os sos instead Of
the eos and SOS.
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