The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-10-29
The Wonderful Wealth He Pro-
duced This Year
THE STARTLING STATISTICS
Grain, Crop Would Take $4,000
Long Twenty-Five Car Trains
to Haul 1t. Other Facts

The National Grain Dealers associa-
ton met in st, Louis October IS Its
membership represents one OF the big
gest businesses in the United States.
The American farm annually produces
over 1900, 10000 bushels of grain.
The crop this year, when the last bushel
Is totaled up, will be found to amount to
about 1850, 100000 bushels. In other
words, If you were to load the grain crop
Of the United States on railroad trains,
it would take $4,000 twenty-6ve-car
trains to haul it,
1t would take all of the freight engines
in the United States and half of the pas
senger engines to move these trains,
counting but one engine to the train,
and would require more box cars than
there are now in operation in the whole
country.
To get a. It another way, reckoning
the population of the United States at
$4,000, 900, the crop of grain the farmer
offers the country this year amounts to
nearly fifty-three bushels of every man,
woman aud child It's value is enor-
nous. The crop last year was below the
average, yet even at that 1t was worth
1878, 600, 600, or nearly S2S per capita,
The American corn field is almost as
big as the whole Of France or Germany.
1t gives to the world seven out Of every
eight cars of corn that are grown.
Eight such crops as the one Of this year
would pay for duplicating every mile Of
steam railroad In the United States, with
enough left to buy all their terminals,
rolling stock and other holdings Thir-
teen such crops would replace the bank
ing power of all the banks in the United
States, which includes all their capital,
surplus, deposits and circulation. In
seventeen years it would replace the
banking power of the world.
The American wheat field contains
10, 900 square miles, and is big as Rou-
mania and Servia together. 1t yields
nearly nine bushels for every person
within the United States, and furnishes
one-fifth of all the wheat grown in the
world. Though man does not live by
bread alone, that article of diet figures
largely in the rations of civilized nations.
Statisticians estimate that 600, 900, 900 of
the earth's people eat wheat bread.
The annual wheat harvest of the world
amounts to about 5000, 900, 900 bushels
"a year.
OATS YIELD.
The oats field of the country yielded
'three-quarters of billion bushels this
year, and its value will be over $780,
100000. Two crops like it would be
enough to give the country every inn
portant deep waterway projected. AL
though the oats field is only little plat
Of 80, 700 600 acres, it is yet big enough
to make the oats fields Of most countries
look like little school gardens Barley
contributes two bushels per inhabitant,
and each of us could enjoy the bread
made from half bushel of rye from the
years crop. Buckwhest and flaxseed
contribute their proportionate share, and
The rice fields offer bushel for every
family in the. country. The United
States grows one-fourth Of all the cereal
crops of the world, although only one
acre ont Of every ten Of its domain is
devoted to cereal growing. Yet great
as is the cereal harvest of the United
States, Secretary Wilson sees the day
within the time Of the present genera
ton when the yield per acre will be IN
creased Is per cent,
II was the dawnirg of the age OF agri-
cultural machinery that made these vast
crops possible, Before the dawning OF
this age the old farmer had to work
three hours for every bushel Of wheat
he produced, and ii cost him eleven
hours Of hard labor to cut and cure a
ton Of hay. The new farmer can ouer
YOU 4 bushel Of wheat for every nine
minutes he works today, and can sen
YOU a ton Of hay for every hour and q
half he works. No wonder when ne
rides out he can now take his choice
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