Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-09-20

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Prof. Galloway, chief Of the bureau o.
plant industry at the Department of Ag.
riculture, who has just returned from
an inspection of the drousht-stricken re-
gions Of the West, reports that he ends
much to encourage him in the changed
conditions. The farmers are more gen.
orally accepting the advice Of the depart-
ment to diversity crops, and are not stalk
ing their prosperity on one crop, as in
years past. Prof. Galloway says that
the beet sugar industry is attaining very
respectable proportions. Sugar beets, he
declared, need much closer attention than
most grains, corn for instance, but that
it has been demonstrated ut one of the
experiment stations, which has gone into
the beet raising business on srather a
large scale, that a profit of about S15
an acre can be realized. The planting,
cultivating and harvesting. Of an acre Of
beets. which will bring an average of $50
on the market, represents an outlay Of
$50, which includes the cost of all labor
needed. On the southern peninsula of
Michigan the raising of sugar bcets, Prof.
ooiAoNdS SulU, las ulLiOSC tuNSu tAC
place of corn. Michigan will manufac-
ture enough sugar from her beet crop
this year to supply the whole population
of the State. There is danger that the
production of sugar beets in the middle
West may be excessive and cause a
slump in the market. Prof. Galloway
found much of the corn suffering from
undercultivation, the farmers in many
places having evidently despaired of the
crop and let the weeds run riot
During the seven months ending Jan.
81 last the total value of merchandise
imported into the Philippines was $17,-
099,161, as against $12,674, 7Oo for the
same period a year before. The total of
exports for the same period was S12,G37,-
800, as against SS,305,53O for a similar
period the previous year. being an In
crease of - per cent in the value of i'm
ports and of % per cent in the value of
exports. Gold and silver We're imported
to the value of ST. 90,223, as against ST.
6SS.1S2 for the previous year. The value
of the exports was $a3,O29.7334 i'll 1901,
and $1,44G,291 for the seven months of
1900. The value of imports of merchan-
disc from the several countries during the
scNcl uloll1S ellueu Juu. OLE 1CUl anu
1900, was as follows: United States,
1901, $~1.493,4SS; 1900, $SD0,O1O: an in
crease of $GO3,47S, or 6S per cent. Euro
pean countries, 1901, $S,374,1S3; 1900.
S5,2!O,166; an increase of So, 7O3.417, or
10 per cent. Asia, 1901, $7,a32I.5S2; 1900,
S6,O6G,222; an increase of S1,3321 $50, or
% per cent. Oceanlca, 1901, $197,6S3;
1900, S507, 7O2: n decrease of $31O,O19, or
~ ~ ND,% nAl,1. n,,n 1On1 90
231; 1900, So. The value of exports of
merchandise to the several countries dur
ing the seven months ended Jan. 81, 1901,
S1,477,611; 1900. s%2.037.Gso. European
countries, 1901, $7,9S3, 751; 1900, $S3,2O1,-
65s; Asia. 1901. %s2,543.41O; 1900, S2,774,-
AGA; Oceanica. 1901, $2s6,S05; 1900.
242245 other countries, 1901, $S33i5,T S2;
1900, 1888.
Statistics of farm labor and the wages
paid in the several States and territories,
have been prepared by the Agricultural
Department. \ greater number of per-
sons are directly engaged in some form
of agriculture than in IN other branch
Of labor. There were %, 7335,G61 persons,
10 years of age and over. having gainful
occupations in the United States in 1890,
of whom 1926, 634, or 500 per cent, were
engaged in agriculture; of these, 3,O04,-
061 were agricultural laborers, the class
whose wages are the subject of this re-
port. Agricultural laborers-that is, those
who work for hire, are q decreasing ele-
ment as compared with the entire farm
labor of the United States. In 1870 they
constituted 4S.9 per cent, or nearly one
half of the agricultural workers; in 1880,
43.G per cent, and in 1890, 1913 per cent
or little more than one-third. The latest
year covered by this report is 1899. Farm
wages per month, by the year or season,
without board and with board, were high
err in 1899 than 1898. In rate of wages,
with board, per month by the year from
1885 to 1899, the smallest changes are in
Georgia, Texas, and New Mexico, each
less than 1 per cent. The highest gain
was in Minnesota, 10 per cent, followed.
Wisconsin, nearly 10 per cent, Wash
ington and Michigan. each 8 per cent;
North Dakota. IS; South Dakota, rs
per cent; and Wyoming, Z per cent. In
the United States, as a whole, wages
per month by the year or season, both
with and without board, had their max
imum in 1866, and their minimum in
1879.
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Sir William G. Van Horne, chairman of
the board of directors of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad, has estimated that the
grain crop in the Northwest would. reach
a total of 100 900 bushels. This is
a bumper CROP" said Sir William, ''and
will allow the farmers a surplus for ex-
port trade. l suppose the great harvest
has had an appreciate effect on the Sc
curities of the Canadian Pacific, but they.
are selling Mt figures which 1 believe
should have been reached some time
ago." Sir William, who is the active head
of the American syndicate constructing
the railroad in Cuba, stated that, begin.
ming Monday there would be 1000 men
at work on the roadbed of the road.
William Jennings Bryan is branching
out as an editor, and recently placed on
file in Washington a bill of sale by which
he acquired the ownership of the Ma
tional Waterman. which first appeared
as the Silver Knight Waterman. The