The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-28
ACREAGE
CAN'T BE OYERDONE.
EXHAUSTION OF RESERVES CALLS
FOR HEAVY CROP.
With Greatly Increased Acreage and
Yield the Price Will Hardly Fall Be
low 80 Cents, in the Opinion Of Lead
ing Local Administrations Grains
Not Certain Prospect.

The northwest has the opportunity
this year to seed the largest grain acre
| age that it has put under cultivation IN
many years. April conditions have
been SO favorable that the normal
wheat seeding will be finished this
month, while in recent years it has
been done. This leaves open the, early
part of May for thoro completion OF
seeding operations.
Wheat continues to be the chief
among northwest crops. There has
been a good deal of diversiication in
recent years, and barley and oats have
result has been that there has not been
sufficient wheat raised for the north
west demand, and the country. as a
! whole reports as left over from the last
crop the smallest surplus in its his
tory. With this small surplus of wheat
in the country at the close of this
crop. there is suggested to the farmers
be of Importance from a revenue stand
point next fall. A good many in the
grain trade would like to see a large
wheat acreage this year, not because
they think a large yield would reduce
the price materially from present basis,
but because they think it would place
Europe f5u fe' ana the different sections at
home. The country can produce from
= fifty to seventy-fve millions more than
last year without depressing the open
ing price on the crop, in the Judgment
Of good observers. The cleaning up OF
reserves this year will call for a con-
siderable amount from the next crop
to equal the supplies at the beginning
of the last crop.
Prices on New Crop.
Sixty and seventy -cent wheat seems
to be far away in the opinion Of lead
ers in the trade. The wheat market is
believed to be on an 80-cent basis, it
less Of what may be raised, and should
any accident happen the price might
rule well up to a dollar, as it did on the
1903 crop. In this view Of the case it
is believed the northwest farmers could
SOW a full acreage of wheat to ad-
vantage.
there is an impression that there will
be a decrease in the barley acreage.
Oats are likely to hold their own with
last year and an increase in wheat
acreage is anticipated.
Full Acreage Desirable,
| H. V. Jones, when asked today for
an opinion on selection OF the crops
for seeding, said. J.,
"The question is important and the
farmer should give it careful consider
alton, A full wheat acreage this year
in the northwest would bring good
average results to all interests, includ-
ing the farmer. It is too early to
forecast crop results, but it would seem
the country increases last years .produc'
tion 1O0,O00,OO0 to 125,0O0,000 bushels
it is about all we can hope for. On that
basis low prices are not to be antici'
patcd J. We have exhausted reserves
and the new crop should start in
: at IS. cents, unless, by MIRACLE
+ productio19 is increased up to 100000,
y 900 bushels, The principal, com;ppetitoT o.
t wheat on the seeding finish will be flax
seem unnatural to expect fall flax tt
hold at 1925 with another large crol
| to take care of. There is nearly /
years supply left over in the countr,
now, and if the northwest sows liber
ally to fax, it is not a reasonable prop
osition to expect the price to hold a
$1.25, where October is now quoted.
realize there is contest this year be
tween Independent crushers and tn
American Linseed company, the forme
desiring a full acreage in order. to Civ
them supply Of fax at price tina
would enable them to compete advaI
If tageously with the linseed company
g This is perfectly natural position fo
( the independents to take, but the req
"a question is whether it would be goo
- proposition for the farmers to- overloa
. with fax acreage to settle quarrel b
= tween oilmakers, when by moderat
flax acreage they can realize goo
price for flax, and with a full acreag
Of wheat. good price also for whea
A fair flax acreage ought to give
the independents, their supply. Th
northwest is yet essentially whes
country, just as Iowa and Illinois al
70 essentially corn states; We nee
D, the point that the Chief CROP is 81 Gu
tailed until it takes from the farmer
home market for a great staple thu
at it's -four mills. It is of greatest in
portance to northwest farmers that v
- raise. enough wheat to enable the fol-
mills to maintain an export trad
: Iowa has diversifcation, but it remain
a corn state. The farmers should Fl
out their late sewings with a good pc
centage of wheat if this theory is co
rect. - D.. n So -. ~.
"Permit me to make one reference
this time on another line; The gre:
western credit without a tarnish. I'll
northwest kept aloof from the e.
tanglements of the wheat deal; n,
a single firm was involved. The Char
Der of Commerce has again demo
T strated it's ability to maintain the ]egi
innate side of the grain business. TT
millers, the elevator companies and Il
brokers come out clean. - =
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