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oreron Not Much on Corn.

And Oregon. land Of red apples and timber
fraudsl Why refer to its most ~inconspicu-
Gus product? It's total corn crop in less than
one-half million bushels. Several counties
in Nebraska produce more than that in an
off season. California produces less than
3 million bushels Of corn and North Dakota
limps in with a pRltry 5 million bushels.
The whole state OF Oregon does not produce
as much corn as one farm IN Missouri, David
Rankin's S~0,OOO-aore farm near Tarkio, has
produced / million bushe Of corn in a sim
gle season, and only q little patch Of 1900
acres was In corn at that. There is no
telling what he might do II he put it all
in corn and got up real early in the MORN
ing. He grows more corn every year than
Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Montana and
wyoming combined. Wouldn't a Missouri
farmer laugh right out loud II he happened
to read that story in Printers Ink?
Kansas is another Of the great corn pro-
ducinE states. Its yield. last year and this,
Appropriated 1856 million bushels. And yet
Kansas is best known as the greatest
winter wheat producing state in the union.
Winter wheat has advertised Kansas to
the world at large. From the time of its
feeding until the last field is harvested
the Kansas wheat crop is closely watched
by the big operators of every grain ex-
chang in the world. Every spring the
crop killers go out from the Chicago
Board OF Trade and ruin the crop in
Kansas. Every fall the crop comes rolling
In, showing a gradual increase In quantity
and q marked improvement in quality. Ali
this serves to advertise Kansas as a wheat
state, but this corn crop, one year with
another, is worth more in money than the
wheat and all the other cereal crops Of the
state combined. So much for the specu-
lator and the publicity which he sets afoot.
Q
Nebraska Fourth in Wheat.
Nebraska stands fourth in the list Of
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1t is never possible to determine the exact
yield OF wheat or corn in any year but the
best estimates obtalnable, from government
reports and other sources, place the yield
OF wheat in the United States for 1909, at
approximately, 7A million bushels. Its
value Is about 6Ss million dollars on the
farm, or 7O million dollars on the Chicago
market. On the first day Of last August.
crop prospects indicated a yield Of three
billion bushels Of corn, Dry weather in
August reduced the yield to approximately
2.760 million bushels, worth on the farm
about 1850 million dollars and on the Chi
cago market about 1850 million dollars.
In any normal year the corn crop OF this
country is worth twice as much as the
wheat crop.
Tho Chicago board OF trade is largely
responsible for all this fuss over wheat
and for much mlsapprehension as to the
relative value Of our two great cereal
crops. Wheat lends itself readily to specu-
lative deals. Owing TO the ract tina only
a small per cent of the to,al yield is
consumed on the farm and that the larger
part of the crop finds its way into the
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more or less evaded, the smoking Of
opium means immediate dismissal. Govern
ment detectives or censors rave ben in
structed to shadow the officials, and those
who claim to nave broken off the habit
are rigidly watched. Just the other day
a private secretary of one Of the cabinet
ministers was found TO AVE several ounces
of opium on his person, and a request for
his dismissal was promptly sent forth. In
one of the papers this morning l see a
dispatch stating that Prince Chung, one OF
the imperial opium commissioners, has just
denounced twenty high officials who have
lied as TO their use Of the drug, and that he
demands their dismissal. Last October two
Of the imperial princes were ordered 10
resign their posts that they might give
their entire time 10 the eradication OF
their craving for the drug, and at the
same time, as an act of mercy, three
months OF extension were allowed to GER
tain civil and military officials who had
not obeyed the imperial edicts.
The crusade is being extended even 10
the ladies OF the palace. They have been
warned thai they must stop smoking, and
certain Of these danes, who have been
secretly selling opium to their friends,
have been told that II they continue they
viii be imprisoned,
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wheat producing states, with a total yield
Of winter and spring wheat approximating
" million bushels. The crop this year is
worth nearly 80 million dollars. Only three
other states, Minnesota, Kansas and North
Dakota, surpass Nebraska I'm the annual
out-turn OF wheat About one-tenth Of the
winter wheat produced in the United States
is grown in this state. Nebraska also pro-
duced 81 million bushels of oats in this
year Of exceeding grace. and In this cereal
is only surpassed by five other states, All
this makes for a great and growing pros
perity, but what shall we say of the corn7
II corn is king Of all the crops in the
United States, it is more than king in Ne
braska. Estimates on August l indicated
q Yield OF 254 million bushels, but unfavor-
able weather, In the melting days that fol-
lowed, cut down the estimate to a measly
213 million bushels. And II ia worth, on
the farm, where a large part Of II will be
turned into finished products for the mar
ket. only a trifle over a shabby los million
dollars. Would that we could find a really
profitable crop for these fat praise landsl
Comparisons are generally odious, but in
this case the temptation is not to be re-
sisted. Just a~nalyze these figures: Nebraska
produced more corn this year than all the
New England states combined have pro-
duced in the last quarter Of a century,
more in one year than twenty-six other
states and territories combined, including
all New England and such states as New
York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and South Carolina. None of these
states is noted for its production of corn,
and in order to afford a more striking OBJ
ject lesson, we shall carry the comparison
into the heart Of The Corn Belt"
Nebraska produced this year more than
Kansas and twenty other states and ter
ritories; more thai Texas, Oklahoma and
seventeen other states and territories
That's doing fairly well with the handicap
Of a dry spell in August.
These comparisons might be carried
along indefinitely, but we don't want to
tire you, or to further annoy that thought
less one who scrubbed, idly and aimlessly,
for Printers Ink. In all this controversy
we have only a passing concern. Let's
keep the record straight.
j. T. DUNLAP.
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A bale Of cotton weighs bout 900 pounds,
and the price is now about 14h cents a
pound on the New York Cotton exchange.
This is the highest price since the season
of 1908, The lowest price in recent years
was 81 cents a pound. in 1894, The United
States is the greatest cotton producing
country of the world and the farm value
Of the crop this year will be about no
million dollars. India stands next to this
country in the production OF cotton. It's
crop Of 1908 was 9,628,OOo bales from IS, $780, 900
acres.
But We rave wandered far afield from
our slipshod friend of Printers Ink. After
making a fairly accurate statement in
reference to the wheat yield Of several
states, he rambles'6n in this blind fashion,:
LAS for corn, these are the leading
states
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China Wages Unrelenting Warfare on the Curse of Opium Habit

nan before and after he has become the
slave Of the drug are published, and the
horrors of the practice are wildly painted.
Meny Of the societies require their mem
bers to wear a badge and sign the pledge,
and many Of them offer rewards for the
detection of opium smokers and Of the
illegal selling Of opium.
In some of the provinces the most rigid
laws have been enacted against the users
of the drug. In Kiangsu no habitual
smoker under so can appear in court as a
plaintiff. He cannot institute a suit and
can have no protection from the laws as
long as he continues to disobey them. In
Canton there is a temple which has been
given over to the anti-opium crusade, anti
opium pictures being pasted upon its walls.
In Yunnan opium lectures are everywhere
given. and a large number of refugees have
been created to take in confirmed smokers
and cure them. Hundreds OF opium pipes
and lamps are nailed to the walls OF this
government buildings and the viceroy is
rapidly reducing the area Of the opium
farms.
At the capital Of Fukien province there
nave been eight burnings OF opium and
opium fixtures during which 1888 ounces
were destroyed and the following items
burned: Pipes, A4SS; pipe bowls, A,4S2i
lamps, S,693; boxes, S,497; vessels for opium
cooking. 600. About 5000 needles used for
morphine injections were all given up and
broken. In that province IL is absolutely
necessary to have a certificate 70 buy
opium, and the same person can only get
his supply once a month, the allowance
being fixed by the opium commissioners
1 find a general belief among the Chinese
Continued on Page FouF.)
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women and carried out with the opposi-
ton, rather than the assistance OF the
government officials. This crusade OF
China begins at the top. Three years ago
the great empress dowager and the chief
boards OF the empire at PeS:aS sent out
odicts cutting down the size Of the opium
farms, shutting up the opium dens and
requiring all dealers In opium to take out
licenses. The government commanded
all farmers to reduce thelr opium fields
by 10 per cent every year, ana provided
that no opium at all should be cultivated
after the end of ten years. 1t required
that the merchants decrease tneir opium
sales ~ per cent every yeus, and close
out their whole business ia rne space Of
five years, 1t ordered that all public
opium dens should be sunin,aruy closed,
and that the retail opium shops should
gradually be abolished. At the same time
IL inaugurated dlspsnsarieN where free
medicines might be mad TO take away the
opium craving, and encouraged the estab-
lishment Of opium hospitals for those who
had contracted the habit.
In the game edicts Il was provided that
all users of opium should be registered;
that they should be examined by the police,
and the habitual users should be allowed
only a given quantity Of the drug, at GER
tain fixed periods. These allowances were
to be gradually reduced so tusy at the end
of'flve years all persons under sixty years
OF age would be free from the habit, All
users OF opium were required TO wear
badges, so hat every one would know an
opium fiend as he walked through the
streets.
All government officials, including
princey, dukes, viceroys and generals under
sixty had six months to give up the habit
or to tender their designations; and all
teachers and scholars were required TO stop
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Among the Viccroys.

The work o. stopping the evH among the
clerks outside Picking has been delegated
90 the yiceroys and governors. There are
twenty-five provinces in China, and the
work in each OF these Is going on rapidly,
or the reverse, according to the energy OF
the governor. In Szechwan, a state ia tho
far west bordering on Tibet, one OF tho
new district officials invited all OF his
subordiuates 20 a dinner. He Toasted
them well, but, as they We're about 10
leave, he closed the door, saying that he
intended TO keep all with him under lock
and KEY for the ncZt three days to learn
whether they were IRE. from the opium
habit. lie knew those who were not would
show nervousness; and I'm this way he
could learn how to enforce the new laws,
II is believed that many OF the vice.
roys are still secretly smoking; and the
anti-opium commissioners have asked the
prince regent to call a meeting at the cap
ital OF all the viceroys. governors and gem
erals Of the army who have reported that
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In the hands Of some people Ito slightly
change an ancient axiom) figures are al
most as dangerous as edged tools. Doubt
less this writer has confused the percentage
of gain or loss in the condition of the
growing crop, as reported monthly by the
Department Of Agriculture, with the figures
for the estimated yield by states. OF the
six states named above, only one. Indiana,
is really a great corn producer. Indiana's
crop his year Is estimated at 12 million
bushels. Illinois leads with an estimated
Yield Of s8s million bushels, Iowa comes next
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4 Mighty Crusade.

Outside the officials a mighty crusade
has been going on over China to stop the
use Of opium among the people. Indeed,
there are so many different movements
that I hardly know where TO begin. Every
province has its anti-opium societies. These
meet regularly; they print and distribute
anti-opium literature and send out men to
lecture upon the opium evil. There is one
society in Canton which has distributed
millions of pamphlets showing the terrible
fate Of the opium user. Pictures Of the
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they have broken off the habit. When they
appear they viii be subjected to a test "a
show whether or not they "a lied. Since
this one viceroy has asked for time for
some OF his officials, and others have es-
tabllshed opium hospitals and cures.
In nearly every province Of China there
has been a general closing Of the opium
dens. In some cities a back-dOor business
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this amount the United States produced
about one-fifth, or s4 million bushels. Corn
stands at the head OF the list Of all crops
Of the world In quantity. but yields first
place TO wheat In money value. The oats
crop Of the world for 1908 was S,29O million
bushels, and of this amount the United
States produced 500 million bushels, worth
on the farm, about $40 million dollars.
These figures show the acreage and es-
timated yield of our four great crops for
1909:
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In Foochow there were $40 dens at the
time the edict was Issued. They were all
closed on the first of the fourth month Of
the year following and are still shut. The
same is true Of Ichang, although the shops
for the sale of opium are still open. Ka-
shing, which for years was one OF the
worst opium smoking places in the prov
ince OF Chekiang, has abolished its opium
shops, and the day OF the closing the
opium pipes were burned in public and the
people rejoiced. The same is true OF many
other cities, in not a few of which the
opium dealers have since secretly resumed
business.
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is stfi going on, but the public smoking
has become unpopular and dangerous, and
the chief opium used Is now behind closed
doors. In Shanghai all the dens In the
native town have been shut, and fully half
of those in the foreign concessions wiped
out. The foreigners propose to clean out
the evil in their part Of the city by 1910
In Wuchang the shutting up of the dens
has considerably diminished the arrests
for crime, and one of the policemen says
this is largely because he does not know
where TO go to look for criminals.
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II is not so with corn. The United states
is the great corn producing country OF
the world. Two-thirds of the worlds sup
ply is grown In this country; one-half OF
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the harvester takes its toll Of golden grain,
the telegraph and the cable flash the esti-
mates Of probable yield to the market
centers OF the world. And the greatest Of
these is Liverpool. It IL the nerve center Of
the worlds wheat market. the final arbiter
Of price. When there is a shortage, and
the price is high at Liverpool, there is a
scraping Of bins and a hurrying Of wheat
to Underwater from every quarter Of the
globe.
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- HOS shall rob the crown Of any
XAI part Of It's just due, shall surely
be adjudged guilty OF treason
% to the king. And under that
H6N(ENSI finding Of the court what
49, penalty may we not assess
against the man who conspires to dethrone
Kin Corn, and who, forthwith, halls
Wheat as the h~eir-apparent to the crown?
In the October number Of Printers Ink,
Philadelphia, comes now a writer who is
devoid Of care or caution I'm the handling
OF facts and figures. To quote him briefly:
Wheat is king, Last year It was corn.
The wheat districts this year will have
tho most money, generally speaking"
Catelessly speaking, would have been a
better expression. Wheat has never been
the king OF crops in this country, nor is
1t at all likely that II will ever be elevated
TO that proud position. Cotton was crowned
king in an earlier day. when the planta-
lions Of the south were worked by slaves,
but it's kingdom paled into a dependent
principally, when the first ba,,ery Of corn
planters crossed tho Mississippi river. and
Invaded the fertile fields Of the west.
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or be dismissed from office, and that no
new appointment should be made to any
one who had contracted the liquor habit or
who would not sign the pledge. Let this
edict relate not only TO Washington, but
to every postoffice and custom house, and
let It's effect be so extended as to include
every state official, even TO the county
clerks, sheriffs, and their subordinate en-
ployes.
Let another edict provide that all must
show government permits before a glass
Of whisky, wine or other liquor will be sold
TO them, and so that every -saloonkeeper
be subject to fine and Imprisonment II ne
breaks this law. Let the edlct summarlly
shut nlne-tenths OF the saloons, and pro-
vide for the absolute destruction OF all
within the course OF ten years, Let there
be laws forbidding the distilling Of liquors
and their Importation; and, in short, the
inauguration Of a scheme Of government
restriction which would entirely wipe out
the manufacture, selling and drinking OF
anything intoxicating within the space Of
ten years.
It would be a good. big contract, would
Il not?
Wen, that is just what China is trying
TO do as TO blotting opium and the opium
traffic from the face OF its country.
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opium smoking within the space OF one
year, AS to the officers OIL the army and
navy, they were commanded to abandon
the habit at once.
This is what China is tryinE 70 do. The
above proclamations have veen followed
by Others, and today the prince regent
and tho guard council are doing all they
can to a these laws put into force.
They are prosecuting their infringement
ard they have inaugurated such a reign
o. terror as would create a revolution in
the United States and turn our people
ard government upside down.
Officials Made to Stop Smoking.
It makes one laugh to think what would
happen II Uncle Sam should cut off every
congressman's toddy, should prohibit cold
tea in the restaurant Of the senate and
not allow the clerks Of the government
to take a friendly tipple together. That
is what Is going on here. / am told that
no less than $500 officials. more or less
prominent connected with the government
service in Picking either have broken or
are e~ndeavoTing TO break off the use OF
opium, Some of these are habitual smokers
who have tried SO hard to quit that they
have died in the attempt. Take, for in
stance, Wen Hal. He was one of the
hlshest scholars OF the empire, ana was
connected with the grand secretariat. To
hold his job he signed a declaration that
he was not an opium smoker, and then
stopped using the drug, He died a few
months ago. Tsai Chang, another noted
official. was eashiered FOR smoking. He is
I'll in consequence, and It is said will no
recover. Chi Chang, the acting governor
OF the province OF Anhwai, died the other
day for the same reason. and there are
many other old smokers who are said to
be III.
According to the new laws. which are
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Great stnHIe Crop.

the yield and TO control It's progress 10
market.
.
Great Staple Crop.
Corn is the great staple crop Of the
American farmer. II is food for man and
beast. 1t is the raw product which the
farmer manufactures into beef. pork and
mutton. 1t Is the basic element in the pro-
duction Of milk, butter, eggs and poultry.
II Is the foundation Of bone, sinew and
muscle In the fleet racer, the toppy road
ster and the giant draft horse Of COM
merce. il is the daily ration Of the patient
mule when he plods his weary way across
a peaceful field; 1t is his mainstay and his
inspiration when he gallops into battle
with q monster cannon trailing In his dusty
wake.
Wheat is the favorlte plsythlng Of the
Spectator in futures. A clique Of bulls"
by clever manipulation and misleading re-
reports, may easily send the prices soaring
on the board Of trade. A strong coterie Of
bears" by rushing a large amount OF cash
grain into the markets and by magn;fying
reports Of increased production, may tenn
borarily depress the price. The markets
of the world at large, exert a strong influ-
ence upon the price in America. for this
is an exporting country and wheat is a
worries crop IL Is grown In every land
and ripens in almost every cline.
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The Harvester In All Lands.
The sun never sets upon the harvest OF
the wheat. In some part Of the world the
self-blnder is gathering in the sheaves on
every day Of the year. The names of Nc
Cormick, Deering, Marsh, Osborne and
others, have become household words in
every foreign land. The American harveg-
ter has penetrated to almost every corner
Of the known world. 1t is raced across the
fields Of Argentina by the sturdy little
ponies of the pampas; it has lightened the
labor of the peasant women of Europe; It
is drawn by elephants in India, and by
camels in the valley of the Nile, It has
penetrated the bush lands OF Australia.
the wild steppes Of Russia and the veldt
OF South Africa. 1t has crept into the
orient and has made a strange, new trail
across the plains of Abraham. Wherever
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hands Of the mlllers, the gram merchants
and the exporters, It is easier to estimate
the yield and to control It's progress to
market.
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with 27 million bushels, Nebraska follows
with 21s million bushels and Missouri brings
in a harvest Of 27 million bushels. Texas
was parohed by a drouth this year and
only produced l15 million bushels, as
against 2n million bushels in 1908. SO much
for the six leading corn states.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-14
Copyright. 1909, b!

}. 1909, by Frank G, Carpenter.)
JPPosE that President Taft and
our national congress should
send out an edict tomorrow that
every man and woman in the
employ Of the government must
give up the drinking OF liuuor
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The ARti-OPium Ediets.
We have had erusades against liquor,
but they have been mostly begun by the
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Nebraska Fourth I'm Wheat.
Nebraska stands fourth in the list Of
The Holly chieftain., 1909-12-10
SINGULAR. ISN'T 1T?

An exchange has discovered sumber
Of cases where people have been injured
in various parts Of the snatomy. Here
are few cases cited. While Miss Pearl
Kinsmore, uf East Wing, Indiana, was
coming down stair she slipped and bruised
herself on the landing. Amos Mittieby,
Of Wolpost, Kansas, while Harvesting q
fractions horse was kicked just south Of
the Granary. He is able to be out afain.
While Harold Green, Of Beulah, Mississ-
ippi, was escortins Miss Violet Goo home
from church social Saturday evening q
savake dok set upon them snd bit Mr..
Green four times in the public square.
Joseph Tut Of Grimmelsburk, lows,
climbed on the roof Of his house to find
leak and slipped and fell, striking ON his
back porch and causing serious injuries.
lsiah Trimmer, Of DoIberry, Nebraska,
was playing with cat Friday, when the
animal scratched him on the veranda.
The Holly chieftain., 1909-12-10
MEN AND THINGS
Epit6ase al The Weeks Doinss in
Holly asd Vicinity.
IN oE N ERAl

A. Fl. Price the jeweIer has an
advt. il this issue. Read it and be
convinced. He tells you the straight
OF it.
Copies Of The Holly Chieftain
may be,fou,d AT the office of the
Colorado State Commercial ASSN,
of which we are member. at
No. 1916 Stout street. Dem
yer. where you car read them at
your leisure. This paper is kept on
file there for two weeks.
Every. lad.'s waist at White
Bros. Dept Store is selling at
half price.
Bob Duffy was very i'll the past
two weeks, but is much better at
this writing
Atesl Wanted Lady or gentle.
man. For particulars call at
Lee Studio, Holly.