The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-03-31
HIGH BREADSTUFFS.
Prediction of Secretary Wilson OF
the Production of Wheat
i'm the Future.

Washington dispatch, 2S: The pros
pect that Americans are sentenced to
scarcity of wheat and to high bread
prices was brought forcibly to public
attention today by Secretary James Will
son of the department of agriculture.
Secretary Wilson not only is practical
western farmer, but he is thoroughly
advised as to the conditions of the
wheat growers of the northwest. What
he says regarding the diminishing
wheat supply and his suggestions for
improving conditions must engage the
attention.
"Our great wheat fields along the
northern border are refusing to grow
wheat, said James Wilson, land un-
less the American farmers change their
methods of growing this product, there
will be large increase in the price of
brea dstuffs. The evil day cannot long
be postponed. Notwithstanding the
farmers of the northwest believed they
had solved the problem by permitting
the lands to lay fallow for one year and
growing crop of wheat every other
year AT present the average produc-
ton of wheat to the acre is eight bush
els, while in Europe the farmers grow
thirty. Last year the American wheat
crop was sickly and this indicates that
the land refuses to grow wheat any
longer OH profitable basis.
I'm order to save the wheat fields of
the United States, we have sent experts
to the northern parts of Norway and
Sweden to find leeumes which will grow
in cold climates. If the wheat farmers
of the great northwest expect to grow
wheat at profit, they must rotate their
crops. At present we have no legumin
GUS plants which will grow in the north
west that can be rotated with wheat
With continued decrease in the yield
in the northwest, the farmers of Iowa,
Illinois, Kansas and Nebraska will be-
gin growing wheat again, but they will
a bushel for it.
i do not mean to frighten the peo-
Pile by saying that there will be great
shortage in wneat, but / am confident
that there will be a large advance in
the price unless the methods of farming
are changed. The present per capita
consumption of wheat in this country is
from six to seven bushels, and we are
consuming nearly all we raise. You
can see what will happen when there is
further decline in the yield. Farmefs
will begin raising this stable article
only after a material advance in price. =
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