The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-21

4': Ithe new ana rernafIEAbae vas1eSt shnpw4 e tho white wondsf." rt roonlted t4tee
 hundrsd men. thrss hundfed mnaee e14 immense amount of machinery e mn1D L.
 the crop insids of two weeks and ~ all. @ tast did 1t ripsn. The muleq ho4 W
 do the pulling and hau1ing and tpe -
 the handling.
 Dysry man ashins for wosk found Gg2es
 thing to 0o e 1Q during fhg n4fy
 at 4.so day and board PIsnty q = lranch butcher killsd bu1lOCx tee1 - to provide fresh Dsek IntexDocsnx - l ranch ts the Atchisou, Topek9 ana UNoS Fe Railway. which renders the nene lof the grain and crops to market n = Imattef. The weather held good dnf1nG t1s Ito accomplish stunt of seven hundree
 acres per day. Two of the wheat net0 'lcontained 3,000 acres each, twenty-esv~A miles in circumference, and opsrAtsd tws1 ity-seven binders each.
 q At the same time one thousand acres q tcorn was waist high, requiring nfGe
 forcs of men to give 1t its iast cultlyA. I ton. Five big threshing machtne9 uto
 business in the wheat fields and twetye
 wagons took the grain to tho cara xx addition were 2.5UO acres of uats, eu4ns l cane. kaf1r corn and small products to ~
 cared for. \ A feature of the ranch h fifty asre
 watermelon patch, which supplies see
 whole country around. and, being mee eg
 everybody. saves a large territory t1e trouble of growing gourda Into th1a
 patch the entire tribe of Ponca IndiAns turns Itself loose. as well as the whiteA while the sweet and luscious juices soothe the savage into a ready desire to leaseu uhis
 land to the white brother ct . yery teac sonahle price
 Great crops ax the price of stocks oktfsat
 trunk lines, and on the dividends Of thl9 stock depend the incomes of hundreds q
 thousands of people, largely widows and children whose sole fortunes are tied up
 In such securities. It must bring joy to
 the hearts of all such to know thnt evory last car of tho Northwestern, Miseouf1 Rn-
 ctfc. Atchfson. St. Paul, Great Nofthsfn
 Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific unio9
 Pacific, Ac., feeding into the New Iorn
 Central and Pennsylvania tailroad.. ~ VIII be required to get one 0k Amer1cen lgreatest crops to the markets of the world Larger crops than last year may be ex- tpected. because on June the JStcenla9s or average was higher than f0r 1S1 zss. | So we nave an estimated wne4t moR.9a ,120.0oo bushels. an oat crop uf possl1ly
 fs2. 100000 bushels, Q rye crop oe yo.oe.03 bushels, buckwheat crcp stof 1A,o0W bushels, potato crop of 250, ,0o0. .ooo buShels. To hay crop of b5.0 900 0s0 tons. a cotton crop o1 .Ooo bales, . tobacco crop Of 1vo. ooQoM pounds and'a corn nrop of AsoeoN
 When you consider that Argentina, oul great competitor, has . corn crop thi9 yeaI
 Of less than 17400p. 900 bushels, 0er more ithan s,oOe9ce,ooo 5nshsl a corn .lsH ngssins sn,s that the above total product of srain and potatoes is AFT, ,000, 900 bushels. 1eartna lout hay, cotton and. tobacco which can not be reckoned in bushels. The total vaiue
 of crops of oil kinds this year VII psss M tns s l above foot up to y2.7s6 900 900. Tn other
 words. the American people VIII be en- lriched $58 per capita by the crops of 1soA
 1t is curious to nots that while thls ia the age of gigantic asriculturai maenines x vague. It is not true that big marhines lnov, do the work of the farmers except in
 spots. Big machines so with biz ranches. but there are not so many bi8 ranoheA
 Steam ploughs are rather uncommon on lthe whole. .f f.sts
 On big ranches in californfa. for in-
 stance, you may see many steam pioughs. gigantic hay forks that sweep up a field lin no time, harvesters drawn by many horses, So Such scenes are also com- lmon in North Dakota. But the call of Kansas for twenty thousand men means itfe absence of big machinery.
 # Tt ts surprising that in Kansas and Ne lbraska, where the banks are too small to lhold the crop money, so little use is made of big machinery. Even the Holy Land has now bigger steam threshers than Kansas, Nebraska and many other States. In the great middle belt of crop States lbig machines are just coming into vogue lin a small way and are expected to gradually replace hand labor. T | If is to California, however, 1hdt NC lturn for the grandest spectacle of huge machine labor on the globe. No one would
 think of farming there without gigantic implements. California Is also undergo ing on evolution which must leave ali the other States In the lurch. It is throwing off gradually the yoke of animal and steam labor, just as our cities have dropped the horse car for the trolley. l Electricity has commenced to do the farming and the ranching In California. and in ten years win do all of it Cali fornia is stringing electric power wires broadcast. Applied to the farm, electric power will enable the farmer to rest most of the year, while his farming will be done on a vast scale by the silent agent Electricity has commenced to plough his lands, irrigate them, plant and harvest his crops. and even milk his cows. On the Sierra Nevada Mountains California now stores the melting waters of the perpetual snows and falling rains
 The impounded water Is let down through fumes as needed to power houses. which convert 1t into electric energy, which is stored at convenient stations ail over the State and served tip in voltage at very remote distances from the point of pro- duotior. No greater revolution in every Industry of every conceivable description has ever been seen, not even at Buffalo and along the Niagara River.
 IA tAa< ke.< lev and plateau States are not convenient Ily situated for electric farming on vast scale, 1t would seem that larger adap- tation of steam power might take place, and perhaps will. Michigan was the first State to inaugurate faSmers' trolley rail- ways, which transport garden truck and crops to the nearest markets and bring back supplies. Ohio has made a begin ming in this line and Syracuse In Northern New York. is now equipped in the sams manner and is in touch with every farm within radius of thirty miles.
 Grand Rapids, Mich.. however. has the longest radius of farmers trolley supply. amounting to one hundred and sixty miles in one direction.
 The wheat and corn rank of the leading States in 1903 was as follows:-
 Wheat Rank. Bushels. Corn Rank. Busheln Kansas ..... 872i9.65z Illinois .... 264, ,0Ss ,i3l