The Ordway new era., 1906-09-07
IMMENSE CI1
HecoaO-ssrAk,Ho ,.o,. !.
IN ALL SECTION,
WHEAT, CORN AND e,,1

Abov. A., 'n Bushels u y
s'on-Nearly rhr.. s,'''.'
Of Corn. s""0n
inc crop reports issued :. .
partment of agriculture >. W
indicated another record.b,s,s' 49,
says Golfers Weekly. prel,a',. lsa,s
u' turns put the wheat crop a. ., 4
bushels The spring whea, ~,
estimated at 27S.sso,ooO br.sa'' ~
ing a total probable whea, T..
OF 772,2Si. 900, which is no,a 'a" -
ever produced In any o,hs, ,s nv
the world. about 100, 600 , ooa .ossf .
our own average produc,ions y. a's =
years preceding. and nearIy " !, y. y
more than our greatest prey,:'. -
production In 1901 "ua
Along with the creates, ,,...
W., we nave also the promise Of Inv 4.
est corn crop on record-no Le -.
2.7l3.i9i.000 bushels .as ~ ., ,ea
twelve'million.bate cotton s,sa ~,
cciient tobacco crop. and e,o,' wv
ley. rye. and other m,no.r
ranging from fair TO fine anal. :
evident that the farmers a, ,ba
States will have even more r,.
spend. the railroads mors 80
carry. the merchants mora ~
seii than last. All through n. =.
wheat belt there has been ,
able Increase in the yield Der ,,,. y
gain Is unbroken from pep,u,,j
TO California. In Indiana ,.i \
old states whose soil mIyh,
pected to be showing signs a u,
ton. the average yield has go,. +
twenty bushels TO the acre,
that would have been considered
a few years ago for an e,c.yts
favored farm. In Nebraska n P
age has risen TO 23.2 bushel,
year. when We had next to III. hr
wheat crop ever produced up %
time. three of the eleven ri,.
winter wheat states averaged len
ten bushels to the acre. ThI
only one state has averaged lsu
twelve bushels and only two len
fourteen. Last year only three q
went above eighteen bushels. III,
three have gone above twenty
years gigantic crop o, i;ss
bushels of wheat OF all kinds hu
produced on an acreage ten pe, 1
smaller than the 1899 crop o! I'D
900 bushels less.
II is n noteworthy fact Ia.
amount OF land sown TO whea, b |
United States seemed to reach is
seven years ago. In 1899 We hii
5SS.57i acres In wheat-an are, Z
TO that OF kansas-and We have I
equaled that figure since. 10
words. the state OF Kansas, itkj
all good wheat land, could prc:1d
the wheat we have ever raised b
United States In any one year.
we have over three million n
miles of land In all. II appear
only about eighty thousand, or lsul
three per cent. of the whole. caa
voted to wheat growing This
record crop has been raised IN u
clamation OF arid lands by irrirs,S
The corn crop is one OF vast!
importance TO the United States
the wheat crop. although that
greatest in the world. Our ?sll
900 bushels of corn this year
load n freight train exientlfe
thirds of the way around me
This crop has been raised on ss
acres of land-about twice hs
age devoted TO wheat and the 81
ever given to corn in our his'on
American cornhelds are abo1'
in extent to the Japanese emplM
their yield in n single year SoIs
off the national debt OF ns
States. - =,
Last year Secretary Wilson
his annual report that II .ns
can farmer could go on wilhou. ~
for three years longer ne evS \
back over a decade and nnI .
those ten years he had ? p'Oas ouss,
amount OF wealth equal 70 ouss
the entire national wealth plTS~ s'n..s
toil and composed of the surrAo l 4,
savings of three centuries =, n
the three years has passed; saan au, q
of a relapse there has oeea a.
vance. VI This years crops alone s y
nav for half the railroads OF 'ne'
States.