The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

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-lESw1a8 &d$Nf1 ''what is it now?'
'Mf5&NJ lXKVX 81 want figures,
THMk&SafHW@A1- Jack announced with decision.
~ &HH~ "Every time have asked for
Thtk88#H1W them you've had excuse.
MMHH&HlWIP It too early or too late,
NNWNNW you thought was too tired,
INnXMW it wasn't necessary for me to
'mW know just then. Now, I just
"" won't listen to anything more
about wheat until have fgures.'
OF not adding machne' said Uncle Dick with
injured air. Then he ghed and added: "I've
pected just such time Of reckoning young man, and
guess IN ready for you. What is the first questionq
''There's money made from the wheat crop
than any other in the country, ism It there?"
''Bess you, boy, not at ALL May cribs I wrote
it all down in my notebook, for could not attempt to
remember the big figures. Here it all is. According
the crop report for 1903 issued by the Department Of
Agriculture the crop worth 1862 S0l while
the total wheat crop of the United States brought only
CROP you And wheat ism It second either
he added quickly, Jack gasped ''The cotton crop
for the same year worth $685. o51 oe5 And wheat
isn't even third at that The hay crop for 1908 was
worth $556,376,ss0.'
"wen! Just plain ordinary hay-grass!" all
Jack could say.
bushel bale of these various from to
season. but generally speaking the proportions remain
about the these figures for 1909"
'But aren It there to wheat than the
rest?'' asked Jack with anxious note in his voice.
Ono, not in that point is wheat in the lead.
There to in 1908 and only
ton fifth with q ,103 acres.'
'But isn't there anything about wheat that it is
the biggest in'''
''Oh"yes. For instance it is the leader in the small
grains-oats rye, barley etc., both acreage and
value And there is another big thing about American
wheat. We may not many to wheat make
much money out Of it do with other crops, but
nevertheless, raise more wheat than any other
country in the world and just at the present tme this
great northwest grows the larger share of each years
crop in North America
To- ,--;4L
a mischievous smile '9ou must prove what you say
with the fgures.''
Uncle Dick consulted his notebook again. 'In 1903
the North American connent-that includes Canada and
Mexico-raised 7327S7 900 bushels Of wheat. Of this,
637 1000 bushels raised in the United States
alone and of this in turn Minnesota North Dakota,
South Dakota Iowa and Wisconsin furnished 97042810
bushels in the order named, Minnesotas contribution
being 597 bushels And 1903 not especially
good year the northwest for wheat but it happens to
be the latest which the figures have been reported
''But what about the other countries that raise
wheats'
tChile Argentina and Uruguay, the three countries
in South America which raise noticeable crop of wheat
had bushels that year; Great Britain and Ire
land, SO 1920 900 bushels and the European continent
twenty five countries in ALL including Russia 1885,
900 b 's,e - +,.+ o,;..ns 700 90 noh
t Eni'; WHO'LL 'A' ''' ~ w - ~
t'we do not use all the wheat at home-that is, the
wheat raised average year. We send wheat abroad
part as grain and part The United States is the
greatest wheat and -four country in the world
In 1902 234oooooo bushels exported Gas wheat and
hour); in 19O3 only let 2o2906000 bushels go, and
the crop of 1904 such small that not than
10000 900 bushels of wheat exported" -.
"And what caused all that slump, Uncle Dicki'
'sThe winter wheat crop damaged by foods and
unusually bad weather, and the spring wheat crop
by Had all things been reasonably favorable
the grand Of wheat raised in the United States in
1904 would probably have been 7oooo0ooo bushels In
stead it amounted only to about 900 bushels
t'Do you spose will make up next year for the
poor yield and keep eadf don like the United
States to fall down in anything"
cit may be that shall never again export wheat
and -four in such quantities have in the past for
the reason that population increasing very rapidly
consumption grows eorrespondingly greater
year by year Still shall probably have surplus Of