Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-02
CORN SHOW \ GREAT EDUCATOR
Iowa Mar Thinks IL should BE Per-
m%RnentIy in Omaha.

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mRnently in Omaha.
NJ Mcfarland. a prominent Dcs Moines
grain dealer and a member Of the Iowa
Corn Snow commission. was in the city
last night, comforting with various officials
connected with the approaching exposition.
MIR. Mcfarland believes that the corn
show will become a permanent event and
that Omaha is the proper place IN which
to hold It each year. He has some well
defined views on the Importance and scope
Of the exposition and on the future OF the
corn raising industry.
In speaking OF the exposition at the Pax
ton last night. he said. The famous Seed
Corn Special, which l originated, was a
good thing in starting interest in corn, but
the exposition idea is carrying the work
beyond that and is a very essential thing
Prof. Jones combines knowledge Of scien-
tifc methods and fine executive ability
and from what I have seen this evening,
the show is going to be a great success.
while It will be large an9 fine, in my
judgment. Il is only a starter: It Will be 8
permanent and growing institution. Omaha
is doing so fine and is so well situated that
the exposition should remain here. and /
have no doub. but that It will. The live
stock cxpositious at Chicago and Kansas
City are great and are doing good work,
but do people realize that corn rs the
foundation Of it all and many times more
important than live stock. because there are
more than 100 commercial products made
and sold from corn. including the stalk and
the cob? Do we realize how we would be
troubled to get along without the products
OF corn in alcohol. starch and glucose, With
all the great number Of products made
from them? l would judge that the dis
tIlleries and the starch and glucose works
would run at two-thirds OF their capacity
even with corn at 81 a busheL
Land S now worth from 800 to s125 an
acre. and I nave no doubt that It Will sell
at from 800 to $40 an acre within twenty
five years. as the corn area is limited
How important, then. It Is to know what
good seed is. how 10 plant and cultivate
it. In the last four years, including the
one following the panic. the government
statistics show that allowing for all our
exports we have consumed at home an
average of 2,5oO, 300 bushels, an amount
about equivalent to the crop this year.
which leaves but little for foreigners. We
start in on the next crop with almost no
surplus and 1t is about our normal con-
sumption.
Suppose we should have a poor crop
Text year. say 2,oc0.OO0.OOO bushels. which
would not be an extraordinary circum-
stance. who can say where the price would
20 and would it not cause our feeders to
market stock to sucn TN extent that beef,
pork and mutton would be very high after
ward. 1t does not take a seer TO sec that
our corn crop in this country is of very
great Importance and Is becoming more So
every year, as the amount consumed is
growing fast and we must raise more per
acre and so farm as to avoid as much
as possible a poor or light crop. Is II not
evident tina others beside manufacturers
and grain shippers are interested?
surely of all good mother earth's prod
ucts corn is king
Mr.. Mcfarland is also OF the opinion that
oats IL a crop which has been neglected
and which will we'll repay more attention.
He said: In Iowa we are raising about
10000 acres OF oats. which has been neg
lected by farmers as much as corn form
erly was in selecting, cleaning and care
~ the seed. in planting and In the prepare
ton Of the seed bed.
las our land. ever at present prices. is
too valuable 70 be worn out by continuous
cropping with corn, 1t must be rotated
with other crops. and in this central belt.
which lies between the natural spring and
winter wheat belts. the natural. and, as /
believe, the right crop to alternate with
corn and grass is oats. There is no doubt
but that oats with proper care and atten-
ton can be made a profitable crop as we'll
as serve in rotation.
Recognizing this, the Western Grain
Dealers association, through the secretary,
George A. Wells. IS raising money and
with the aid OF Prof. Bowman Of Ames,
is having made in New York a beautiful
silver trophy, representing a sheaf Of oats.
This trophy is to be competed for in oats
judging contests by classes of young men
from several state agricultural colleges
This work by young men in Judging was
and Is one OF the principal methods by
which Prof. Holden, also OF Ames, has
made such progress in our state IN improy.
ing corn. and II is expected that ii will
do much in arousing interest in oats.
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