The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05

sent to Canada to purchase grazing
| mer is looking for good investments.
| And let me tell my views about an
| other thing. There is much talk in
Wall street about the timidity of in
vestors. Money is scarce at times and
| the market. says. There is a difficulty
about getting money to float this and
that great enterprise. Men will not
| go into them because they have been
humbugged before. So the cause of
fiotation languishes, and the promoters
| look to foreign investors, but of recent
| date with Indifferent success.
The point l want to bring out is
this. If the bureau of corporaton of
the department Of commerce and labor
had been organized long enough to give
/ to the public an idea of the stability
of corporations which are seeking for
the confidence of the investing public,
| long enough to assure the farmers of
| the west that they were good and re-
| liable investments. instead Of 'saited
| mines they would supply the money
! to set them going.
IF the farmers had some means of
knowing that the international Mer-
camille Marine was substantial and a
good investment which would pay di-
| vidends, they would put forward the
money to float it. l only specify that
as an indication, but mean what say
| aF No
street were not regarded with suspicion
not always well founded. il you
please-the farmers money would be
! invested there, and then, where would
! be all these predictions of a panic be-
cause water is squeezed out of the
| stocks? AS it is, the farmer is going
ahead attending to his business, putting
| his money where it will be safe. and
he does not care whether they are
squeezing water out of stocks or dump
| ing it in.
| To Keep Farmers Prosperous.
Steps are being taken to keep the
farmers prosperous. even IL some
crops should fail. There are many
questions that have to be seriously
considered and solved. For instance
boil weevil is threatening the cotton
crop. The government is undertaking
! ,>n,,.,-inre to ascertain the cause OF
, his pest and to stamp it out. We nope
we will succeed or the consequences
! may be very serious.
constant experiments are belns
there
crons with which the American farmer
is not familiar that can be raised al
! a greater profit than some OF those he
| is now engaged in producing. Inc cui-
,iyation of the sugar beet is gong to
hecone much more general than IL Is
at the present time. SIX years aso
the production of beet sugar IN thls
country was $4,000 tons. The produc-
,tion is going to increase. and II meahS
\ good paying crop for the farmer lie
is learning that his by-product III
stead of being thrown away can NC
used to great advantage for the ieeu
ing of the cattle and other 1--we stoch
thousands of carloads of this py-Pro-
duct are sold in the east every !e"i
Wheat Growing Improved.
..rhen. again. great progress mas oeei
made in proving that large portion
of the United States which mas not SUI
fcient rainfall to raise the oroi'iai
crop plants can be used 10 great a"
vantage in the growing of pecu''"i
kind of wheat. The land between 'he
,Oa,h and 10th principal merldlans IL
TINS affected and comprises one thiro
Of the area of the United States VII
this land as result of our experiments
vaar before last 100000 busheis VI
wheat were harvested. Last year ~
was 81. 900, 900 bushels. In ie"
,.o,rs tho production will be 1Oo.o0o'ooV
bushels.
| 81 have the greatest confidence Al
the agriculturist as the real sus.'''.
ine mower of the prosperity or the oh''
ad states SO long as the crops "ie
homeless the railroads VIII n'"Ne
money hauling to the market OF ~ lux
seahoard. SO long as the ram o'o>
make money they produce CIV ioe""@
and they keep the shops going. "ii0'
+ha -. ilroads cut or pass dividends 'he
whole country takes alarm. Merci'''&
curtail their stocks, manufacturing es
Establishments shut down ana coh'ei"-
Mated industries are abandoned. he"oe
,bera is no question in my NINA dc
TO the important part the FARMER -
n,aviup and will continue TO pray ~
the financial affairs or the
States
Illinois Dairymen Meet.
GREENVILLE, ILL.,. Jan. 5.-Repre-