Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-08-08
MEN WELL eamED SAY MIS-
SIsSlPPI VALLEY FARMS
WILL EQUAL RECORDS.
IOWA's BIG CORN YIELD

Hawkeye States Cereal Crop VIII Be
Largest In Ten Years According to
Estimates of Railroad Officials and
DeaIers-South Dakota and Neigh
| boring States Make Good Reports.
Indianapolis, Aug "A severe
electrical storm, accompanied by
heavy downpour of rain, did
much damage In southern Indiana
today. The loss Is estimated at
more than 100000.
Chicago, Aug Bumper crops are
in prospect throughout the west. Ev.
4 cry farmer this year is a golden far.
inner. Granaries and elevators are
i groaning in anticipation of the loads
they will have to bear. Railroad Off
cials are preparing moving facilities
from figures that break records.
!. Wheat, the finest crop in ten years
and in some areas surprising any pre-.
vious yield, now past all danger from
rust and other ills caised by the
weather, is in the hands of the, har.
vesters or practically ready for them.
Harvesting will be general today
throughout South Dakota.
Corn, several days ahead Of the
crop at this time last year and its per.
centages of bushels to the acre run
ming ahead of the 100 mark is burst
! ing to maturity in the broad belt in H.
linois and beyond the Mississippi like
: a potted plant under magician's
I wand. 1t is a moving picture, 1t is
5 growing SO fast out in Iowa, Kansas
and Nebraska. Danger from frost is
4 remote. owing to its advanced stage.
~ Rig Yield Of Small Grain.
!, Small grains generally, throughout
? tine SO called granger states, promise
= exceptional yields, while the hay crop
is above the average In most sections.
There never was time in the memo
ry of the statisticians when prospects
e have been so bright for all manner OF
e crops taken together.
S From statements furnished by gen.
S eral railroad officials of the granger
8 roads, and reports from its special
correspondents in the several states.
n the following summary Of the promis-
n Ing conditions is compiled This is as
near authoritative as 1t is possible to
compile in advance of the actual stor-
ing or marketing Of the crops. The
railroad statements, which are based
on estimates and figures prepared for
the presidents of the companies and
for transmission to the easter. boards
, of directors, show the broad general
=. conaltions The more detailed figures
II from state agricultural authorities tell
q Of varying local conditions, but all re-
n. ports are corroborative of one another
4 -. - lNy- Gel @VAak ak~v
,r "The yield Of corn promises to be
n greater than that of any previous
4, year." said E. w. McKenna, assistant
:. :. to President Earling of the Chicago
- Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad. "The
= crop lis we'll advanced and is almos
certain to mature before frost. Sprint
wheat has Deen in some danger from
black rust, but SO far as the territor,
traversed by our road is concerned
10 that danger has passed"
Spring Wheat Crop Good.
IT. "George w. Porter, the Minneapc
IT. lis elevator man, was in day or tw'
Id ago and reported that the three sprinl
er wheat states-Minnesota and the Da
On kotas-will harvest 175,000,000 bush
ng els. Their total last year was 154
NJ 100000 bushels. The coarse grains
U6alSyy ly0s o1IS e1AAu AAeR<A A'AoASSeS
full average"
South Dakota has the best crop {
\ wheat and small grain 1t ever had,
said w. D. Cantillon, general superb
intendent of the Chicago and Nortl
western. who returned Saturday fror
a tour of inspection embracing th
grain states. ''It is ten years sine
1t Minnesota had such crop of sma
grain. Iowa presents the best cor
prospects for ten years"
Taking it all around, crops are th
best they ever have been," said Pr,
at, fessor Ripley of the Santa Fe. "Ther
to never was such a corn crop. Whes
IS. sometimes has been little better, b,
,ct not much We figure on 100000
OK bushels of wheat in Kansas. 1t is th
we first time in the history Of the soutl
es. west that there have been big cror
eu in corn. wheat, oats and grass alt
~ ~ gether."
III Record for the West.
~ 1--WE have the greatest wheat cro
that the western country, taken as
cir whole. has ever produced said Thir
,,t Vice President Biddle of the Rock /
IN. land "The prospects for corn nevs
he were better. Nebraska is expected 1
be produce 50,000,000 bushels OF whe;
ec. and Kansas s0,OOO,OO0 We look Fl
me about 15,000,000 in Oklahoma TT
nto forage crops which are an importal
lie; item in the prosperity OF the countr
I'm. were never better"
hat Gall reports are so good 1t Is sho
sen story" said George H. Crosby, freigl
in traffic manager Of the Burlington.
bud cannot recall more favorable cont
lions. The corn crop is assured