The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-12

making grain. BY doing this they VIII
find that the wheat comes 10 Kansas
City in quantities that indicate the album
dance OF the harvest OF 190l. The formers
/ believed, untI the packers combine in
confidently reduced the price Of hogs.
! that e cents a bushel Tor wheat IN the
form OF pork was far better than the
IS cents which the grain dealers pool
was willing to pay for a bushel Of wheat
in the farm markets
That the feeding Of wheat viii reduce
the quantity marketed in the form OF
grain in remarkable manner. there can
be no question. and this is notably true
Of Kansas. as Few farmers. especially in
the wheat belt. have any other grain for
either their teams. swine or cattle-aad
this feeding ought and probably VIII ma
terially affect the price OF wheat in the
latter part Of the crop year.
The commercial and trade press, each
alike, insist that the official showing Of
condition on October 1 promises any
where from 1880 o01.O00 70 1. 800 0o9 600 bush
els Of maize 1t would indicate crop OF
about 100000. 90 bushels if a condition OF
81 bore the same ratio TO the yield THAI
a condition Of SIS for the past ten years
bore TO acre yields averaging "a bushels
but the trouble with all these estimates
IS that they are based upon the uateuable
assumption that the condition applies T.
a planted area of 100000 acres. where's
it is well known 10 those who put forth
these estimates that the condition Of SCI
has reference solely TO the acreage that
may be found worth harvesting. and that
in this case, is probably not much more
than 50 per cent of the area planted
Kansas. Nebraska, Missouri. Oklahoma
and Texas have probably lost more than
1900, 90 acres Of the area planted in such
states, and It is altogether probable that
the other states have abandoned more
than 100000 acres, reducing the area 10
or below 100000 acres. on which a con-
clifton OF 81 indicates crop OF about
ll0o00o,o00 bushels, or the smallest crop
since 1874 although il the meantime the
population has increased IS per cent and
Europe's demands for American maize
have much more than doubled.
Prices at Kansas City Tor Illinois and
Iowa corn show that its cost to the
farmer in the wheat belt in Kansas viii
exceed 6 cents a bushel. while now he
the bushel as against abusheI Of maize
weighing So pounds-for some So cents.
In other words. he must give 1000
pounds OF wheat for 900 pounds OF corn
with which to feed his animals. and
give in addition a bonus Of some $3.50 in
the shape OF a carriage of wheat 10 the
station and corn from the station TO farm
in order 70 make this a profitable ex-
change-and It is because OF these singu-
lar relations that he refuses to send much
Of his wheat to Kansas City except upon
legs.
During the last five years we have, ex-
elusive of quantities exported. consumed
no les than 9.200,9O.000 bushels OF maize
and $500, 1900 bushels OF cats, or an aver
erage of 2,5oo.09o000 bushels yearly Of the
two grains, being in the annual ratio of
thirty-lour bushels. exclusive Of required
seed, per population unit while popula-
ton has so increased during the five
years that home consumption, exclusive
Of seed, now demands 10000 600 bushels
OF the two grains
Admitting that the corn crop of 1901 ag-
grcgates 200 coo 900 bushels and the oats
crop 650.0o9. coo, we have, aside from more /
than 10000 900 bushels required for seed. I
less than 1So0 000. 600 bushels to meet the I
Of 100000 people, OF Unit /
supply Of less than twenty-three bushels, I
the deficit equaling 90 per cent OF the /
usual supply.
with smaller relative deficit from I
the harvest of 1881 the price of maize rose /
to 81 cents in Chicago. while In many OF
the producing districts corn sold for more +
than 81 a bushel. Since 1881 Europe has
more than doubled its demand for Ameri-
can maize. and while g. ~. Snow tells US
maize can be grown at tridiug cose in
Argentina, yet Argentiaa's exports dur
ng the last FIVE years have averaged less
han 100000 bushels per annum, while
he whole eastern Europe can spare bare
= 50, CO. 009 bushels per aunum. and the re-
nainder Of the exporting world less than
100000. In other words the United States
,fter consuming some 600. 10000 bushels
1t home, exporting immense quantities in
'uch secondary forms as meat, lard and
,utter, is still able TO send abroad in pri-
nary form more than twice as many
bushels Of maize as all the rest Of the
ire very cheap hogs and are takius
world
The enterprising packers who now de-
means 70 lessen the supply, viii doubt
ass find before new maize comes TO mar
ct. from the harvest OF 1879. in the shape
{ swine, I at hogs are hogs; that such IS
hey succeed in securing at any price
ave been largely I'D on wheat: that
.ith crude cotton seed a. 90 cents gall
IN and -le yellow Drands al = cents a
an. .
roducts. and that they mrst pay stiG
-ices for the few hogs they can COM
land. for the manufacture Of such real
roducts as they are able % offer their
scrninst-ag customers. and also find
lat the farmer mu-- be 40 lease fa-rl-
lmpensatcd Tor the greater cost ~ hfs =
roducts. and thus be enabled 70 share.
hich should eWard an who sell goods
lat are not sophisticated
it VIII he about two years before tho
eiler can even hope % cut hogs fed on
7lerateiT low priced corn. and he ought
give the farmer q fair price Tor his :
vine iu order 20 encourage HON % fe-d
ore wheat. else tae packer Is LkeiT t1
without hogs erG f1reed 81 elevate .
e price rs meats. rcal lard and cleamar- Y
rn= tLat community $3.50 begin 80
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