The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-03-25
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twelve months.
a. l.. Schaeffer. OF Edgar County.
Ill. harvested the largest crop of pop
corn ever gathered i'm the world. From
MS 1O2 acres he had 1900 bushels.
yield of little over seventeen bushels
to the acre. 1t cost him SIT an acre
to raise, sort, shell and pay ground
rent.
The winter wheat yield of Kansas
for 1901 was 9O.O45.514 bushels. val
ued ut SG0,479.54O, and breaking the
preceding years record by 13.45O.o7
bushels. These two were the largest
wheat crops ever grown by any State.
The first year OF the new century
was an all-around record breaker for
the farmers of the United States. The
entire years surplus of the products
of field and farm sold abroad amount
ed to no less than $500. 100000.
Charles Nj. Schwab President of the
United States Steel Corporation. is
authority for the statement that steel
has supplanted cotton i'm industrial
llingship; that it exceeded the cotton
industry in 1900 by more than $780,
more than S25O,00OOOO.
Imagine, if you can, live stock train
sixteen and seven-eighth miles long
numbering 1897 cars and containing
34,TS5 head of cattle, 3S,456 hogs and
22,234 sheep, and you will have some
idea of the notwithstanding day for re-
ceipts at the Union Stock Yards. Chi
cago, on Wednesday. July "a 1901. 1t
was the biggest day ever known in the
history of this big live stock mart.
The drought in the Middle and West
ern States caused this unprecedented
rush of stock to the market. The to-
tai value of the days receipts was
over 100000 The cattle alone con
solidated in one mammoth animal
would have made n steer seven times
as high as the Masonic Temple. or in
n single file drove would have reached
from Chicago TO Milwaukee.
This herd weighed about 100000
pounds on the hoof. and furnished beef
eaters with about 2O.OOO,OOO pounds of
meat. The value OF cattle shipments
for that entire week was estimated at
! over 100000 The worlds sheep rec
ord was smashed at these yards on
Monday, August ., when 81, 1913 head
were received.
Taking broader survey, all previous
records were broken in the live stock
markets OF the West during the first
nine months of 1901.
TO conclude with few records more
strictly in the odd class: Two prize
winning hogs were produced. Down
in NladOsta Ga, hog was killed
whose gross weight was 1860 pounds;
his net weight was 900. Each ham
weighed 102 pounds. This fat monster
produced 80 pounds of lard, or nearly
fierce and half-enough to last a
small family about four years. Besides
the lard there was nearly wagon load
of sausage from this one pig, to say
nothing of the bgdishpans full of hogs
head cheese, liver pudding and other
products.
The second giant pig was 4 Chester
white boar weighing 1858 pounds,
measuring three feet nine inches
across the back and eight feet six
inches from the tip OF the nose to the
end of the tail. Ii was brought to the
Chicago Stock Yards February 20 by
S. a. Stephens. of Dayton, Ill.
Among other curious things London
had a mountaineering fog on October
%, the streets being rendered impassa-
bic during all that evening 10y the
| densest and blacklist fog known for
years.
Park Policeman 4. 7. Stiles. of Chi
cago. says he is the champion stopper
of runaways, having during the year
increased his total to $50.
Finally, the entire postal revenue OF
the United States i'm 1901 reached high
| water mark. being in round numbers
Sill 600 OO.-New York sun.