The Red Cloud chief., 1901-08-23
CORN IS Still king
John n. Ames Says Stand Up
for Nebraska.
STATE S(ARfD But NOT HURT
Citizens = Very Prosperous Peopie-some
Figures to show that the Loss From
DRY Weather IL Hardly Worth
Mentioning.
TATE SCARED But NOT HURT

John II. Ames of Lincoln gives the
following comforting article on Ne
braska and its resources:
You are fond Of repeating the phrase
"Stand up for Nebraska The senti.
ment Is excellent, but the precept, like
that which recommends the exercise
of Christian charity, Is Of little prac'
teal value without illustration by FIX.
ample. With respect to the present
financial condition Of this state there
are certain facts and figures which arc
deserving Of comment both because
they are cheering to our W citizens
and because they should serve to put
us in our true light before others.
1t is worthy of note, in passing, that
Nebraska has suffered less from the
recent drouth than any state lying "a
the south of her and less than Mis-
souri, and large parts Of Iowa, Illinois
Indiana and Ohio, and of several Eu'
ropcan countries. This advantage is,
Of course, relative only, but it is a jus,
aus for congratulation that from a
universal or widespread disaster one
has escaped comparatively unframed.
The following figures are estimates
only, but they have been furnished by
reputable grain dealers in this city of
long experience and conservative in
clination, and arc based upon personal
observations and hundreds of inquiries
at trustworthy sources of information.
They may be relied upon to any exten,
in which trust ri in any ease be re
posed in similar estimates.
Substantially the total loss suffered
in this state OH account of the recen,
drouth is made up from the injury in.
tiicted upon the yield Of oats and corn.
IL is estimated that the largest harvest
of these two grains ever made in Ne.
braska was that of the year of 1890
when the corn yielded in round NUN
bcrs OF ,O0O. 900 bushels and oats 81,
600, OO0. but the production Of corn in
that year was phcnomenally large,
exceeding that of the previous seasor
by l6, 600 bushels and that of tn,
average of previous fruitful years by
o than as much-morc. In the alb
sence of the drouth a reasonable eX-
pcctation of the corn yield in this state
would have been $50, DOC, 900 bushels
Mt the average price of % cents pei
bushel obtained last year would hav,
been worth So, 800, 600. Add the val
nc Of 81, O00, 600 bushels of oats at /,
cents, $4,000 and you have a tota'
500 ,050, 600. But it would have beer
unreasonable to expect that Nebraska
would have harvested SO much of these
crops unless the other grain-pruducine
countries should have been cqunll,
fortunate. Had such been the cas-,
that fact, together with the estimated
enormous yield of 200. 000, 900 bushels o
wheat. would doubtless have forced
the price Of corn down tn Is cents ,
bushel or less. resulting in II rcduc
ton of ST., 500, 900 and leaving n tota
of $50, $50, 000. Tn the other side %
the ledger IL is estimated that we have
raised this year not less than 1000.
900 bushels of corn and that there ar,
still in the hands of the farmers an,
dealers at least 40, 900 bushels o
last years crop.
Much of the new corn will not grad,
and no mcrchantable value can he pu
upon il, but it will be available 70
feeding purposes. and there are con
siderable quantities in scattered neigh
borhoods that are uninjurcd. 1t will a
least release the old corn from dcman,
for domestic consumption or ut an,
rate permit its conversion into cash
which ut the present price of IS cent
per bushel will amount to Saa ,OO0. 00(
Oats. in some localities. have produce
n good crop and the estimated yield /
10000, 900 bushels, which at the pres
ent price of 35 cents IRE worth 81, 900
600, or nearly a million and a hal
more than last years crop. The tots
Of the two items is $50, OO0, 900, leavin
an adverse balance, as compared wit
1900, of SCI, $50, 900. hut there is al
other important item which has thu
Tar been left out of the reckoning. an
which will more than redress this baI
ance. The boss chump of the agricu
! tNral bureau has excluded Nebrask
with her normal annual yield of 80
200, 0c0 bushels from the corn belt an
has doubtless never heard that a busl
I el of wheat has ever been raised in tn
state. But the fact is that it is alreat
a considerable factor in the fall whe;
production of the country, and is Xix
ly soon to become one of the princip
t wheat producing states. Its yield
o that grain last year was 81, 000.0
II bushels, worth, at 40 cents a bush,
t SlO,O 600 600, and the estimate this We
e is 5O,OOO,OO bushels, at ~ cents a bus
cl, worth s37. SOC, 900, or So, 5OO,O
more than the same crop last year al
e enough to turn the above mention,
advere balance into a net gain for Z
Highest Assessment Per Capita
e Hnuuhtnn county Ai.hiuou NH