Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-23
CROP PROSPECT
BEST IN YEARS
Experts in Minneapolis Make
Prediction After Viewing
Many Fields
NORTHWEST INCLUDED
Danger Period in the Northwest for
Wheat Rapidly Passing, and Ten
Days Will See Most of Wheat Ripen-
ins-corn in Iowa and the Dakotas
Looking Good.

Minneapolis, July 23.--The Journal
SAYS: A bumper wheat crop needs but
u few days more to reach full ma
turity. That crop as it stands means
500. 100000 In value to move this way,
for If full prospects are realized, the
record of 143,O00,0O0 bushels for an
nual grain receipts will be shattered
and In the movement to come the
measure of l75.000,o00 bushels will be
reached. The grain is there.
Never in memory has there been so
great prospect. Fields that will
yield heavier than for years may be
seen. The bad spots are so few and SO
scattered as to be unimportant. Black
rust appeared in places but the wealth.
er refused to turn bad and the rust
could do no damage. The wheat, liter
ally, has run away from the rust, and
will soon be across the safety line with
u good lead
H. V. Jones, the Minneapolis crop es-
timator. who has been out in the fields
| for many weeks, returned to Minne-
apolis Saturday night. Fifteen years
of experience has given Jones prestige
and business men generally follow his
| reports as indicative of conditions to
come. Jones says there Is q bumper
crop, and not only that. but it is so
far along, generally, that nothing but
some calamity unforeseen can cut 1t
down. Mr.. Jones said:
| The danger period for northwestern
wheat Is closing up rapidly. Ten days
or two weeks without injury will give
to the country the largest wheat yield
the three northwestern states ever
raised 1t is not wheat alone that is
| in high promise, but oats, flax and bar
LEY. with corn making excellent prog
ress. on the whole. Corn will be un-
| even, however.
Two Factors to Fear.
"The only two factors to fear are
black rust and blight While an oc-
casional showing of black rust is found,
the weather is not of the character,
in my Judgment, to warrant the ex-
pectation that much damage will re-
suit this year from the rust. Every day
is closing hundreds of wheat fields be-
yond injury, and week Of good
weather will go far toward making a
large part of the territory safe.
/ There is considerable area open to
injury by blight, should hot wind re-
suit. North Dakota is comparatively
free from hot winds, and the crop In
South Dakota will in part be past dam
ger in week or ten days. The pros
pective yield is so large that moderate
damage by either blight or rust would
still leave large crop
"The new crop year is opening bright
for business. If the crop natures,
the railroads will be unable to move 1t
with any promptness, and the car
shortage will be beyond their ability to
| control The crop area is very full.
Wheat, oats and fax have increased in
area materially, and barley has de-
creased. Once the crop is sure, bust
ness men may arrange at once for an
enormous business. The demand for
money will be large until the farmer
can exchange his products for cur
rency. and once the exchange is made,
| the banks will carry large surplus of
I cash.
Billion BusheI Mark.
! "The United States and Canada give
indication Of. crowding toward the bill
| lion bushel mark for wheat production
! this year, together with the old stocks
! carried into this crop 1t is reasonably
safe to count on 9O0,00O,OOO bushels and
upward. This is a result that has never
been approximated in the two coun-
tries. The United States has never
raised 7OO,O00,000 bushels. The govern
ment credited the country with 748,-
600, 900 in 1901, but the analysis of the
distribution showed an error easily
amounting to 5O,000,000 bushels.
THE crop of the United States this
year will exceed 700.000,00 bushels by
several millions. The winter wheat
yield was record breaker, so that all
parts Of the country have been favored.
There is yet the corn crop to gather
and it promises to be large. 1t is easy
| to draw the conclusion that year of
| prosperity must follow a showing like
| this.
Value Of the Harvest.
cit would seem to be conservative to
place the value Of the wheat, oats and
| flax crop on the farms Of the north
west this year at s16O,o00,000. To this
/ can be added the return for barley,
potatoes, hay and live stock; the two
| latter are being much more import
ant item than is generally considered.
S"Of the three states 1t would be our
| Impression today that South Dakota
! will make the largest average result. A
| large immigration movement is in pro-
gress in that state, especially to the
! lands west of the Missouri which the
railroads are now opening. Important
railroad extensions in North Dakota
are opening a large territory In that
state that has hitherto been neglected.
MAY sTANDARDIzE FRATERNALs.
Iowa Commission Mey Recommend
/ aw ae 70 Rates