Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-11-13
WHY EAGLE SCREAMS
PHENOMENAL CROPS IN OUR
COUNTRY THIS YEAR.
Two and a Half Billions of Dollars
the Value of the Yield - Amazing
Figures from Some states-Means
Good Times for FarmerA.

| Figures from Some Statcs-Means
Good Times for FarmerA.
| The unsympathetic farmers Of the
| West and South are so busy adding up
| long columns of figures that the dolefm
| cries from Wall street go utterly unheed-
| ed writes Chicago correspondent. They
are trying to puzzle out just how much
| of the $2,500,O00,O0O that the enormous
| crops promise to yield is going into their
| individual pockets. They have got so far
| along in their calculations that their
wives and daughters are already nego-
tiating with the piano agent, the sewing
machine vender and the piano lamp man.
Steam heat and electric lights will prob
ably follow.
The government estimates and those
of careful students of the crop situation
have revealed the abundant returns to
come from the farms of the country this
year The estimates show that it is rea-
sonable to expect a corn crop worth on
the farm 81, O35, 100000; a cotton crop
worth $575,0O0,O0O; wheat crop worth
1892, 100000, and an oats crop worth
$275, 100000. These total $2,377,50O,-
600, and no account is taken of the vari-
GUS other products. The estimates are
based on the October government report
for corn, wheat and oats, and for cotton
on the figures of Theodore III. Price, who
is an acknowledged cotton expert. The
yield of corn is placed at $500, 100000
bushels; of wheat at 674,O00,OO0; of
oats at 7S7,OOO,0o0; and Of cotton at
11,500,O00 bales. The estimated prices
for these commodities during the year
are 10 cents for corn, rs cents for wheat,
30 cents for oats and $50 bale for cot
ton.
Amazing Figures.
The crop records Of some of the in
dividual States for this year are amaz-
ing. The lead seems to be held safely
enough by Nebraska, with its 100000
bushels of wheat, which should yield
49,, 215,O 900; 22,420,0O0 bushels of corn,
yielding $100,00O,000, and 100000
bushels of oats, worth probably $751;
$4,000; a total of nearly $152,O 900 900.
This is enough money to give every resi-
dent of that fortunate State $142. Kan
sas is a close Second in the running. Her
crops are great enough to give every
man, woman and child within her borders
S115. Her wheat promises to yield near
y
corn, 200000,OO0 bushels, or 100000
900; and her oats 20,650,O00 bushels, or
81, 227, 900, a grand total Of over $751;
100000.
The farmers of Kansas and Nebraska
have been figuring on the crops to de-
termine which will get the biggest income
from his domain. Nebraska has 121, 525
farms on which crops are raised, and a
total crop value of $152,OO0,00O; each
farm has earned this year $3.50. The
Kansas farms are 173, 100 in number,
and as they are to divide harvest worth
$167 100000, the portion of each farm
averages about 1910. The average farm
in Nebraska contains 246 acres, and in
Kansas 24O acres. 1t is interesting to
note in regard to this that the average
income of the lawyers of New York City
has been figured to be $1,000 year.
Texas Cotton.
In point Of value of crops Texas is
above Nebraska this year, but the Lone
Star State has On advantage in her
ability to raise a cotton crop. Her cot
ton crop of probably 100000 bales
should bring her about $13o, 100000,
which is in itself q record. 1t will put
in her pocket, if lady may be allowed
to have one, $10O00,000 more than came
from the same source 4 year ago. Her
wheat crop will bring her S11, T53, 900,
$6,000000 over last year, and from her
corn she will receive about $47,00O,OOO,
which is greater by the huge sum of
$25 100000 than that crop yielded In
1902. Including oats, the total value of
the Texas crops is about S20o,O0O,0 OO,
which should give to each of her 3,O4S,-
600 sons $40. 1t has been a bumper year
for Texas all around.
The farmers of Illinois have calculated
that they are away up among the elect in
the matter of crops this year, although
they are somewhat under those of last
year. The total value of wheat, corn
and oats is put at S1SO,OOO,0OO, which
would give each person in the State $o1.
The Illinois corn crop is S1,000,O0O bush
els under the 372,0O0,000 bushel crop of
last year, but it will probably bring at
least 10 cents more bushel on the farm.
Its value this year is $131,0o0000.
So the figures run throughout the
West Iowa',s farmers have figured far
enough so that they know the corn crop
will bring them about $102,0000O0,
which with wheat and oats will yield in
all nearly $146,000,000, or about 500 to
zach Of the 2,231.000 residents of the
State. In Missouri the three crops will
bring about $1O5, 100000, or $34 to each
person. The corn crop was a source of
trial this year. 1t was some SS,O00,OOO
bushels under that of 1902. Indiana ex-
poets to receive from wheat, corn and
oats about SOC, 100000, which would
equal $50 to each person in the State.
The South.
The South is figuring on the cotton
crop, which, both from its size and the
high price the staple is commanding,
promises to make plutocrats of her farm
ers. Texas is by no means alone in her
remarkable gain over last year. 1t is
estimated that Alabama will produce l.
216,000 bales, which should yield nearly
| SCI, 100000, an increase of about S13,-
100000 compared with 1902. This is
enough money from cotton alone to give
every, citizen of the State $34, and her
crop Of corn increases this to $40.
Mississippfexpects a cotton crop Of
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