The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
CROP BULLETIN
IS ISSUED
SAYS PRICE OF LIVING is TO
DROP TO NORMAL
SOON.
Yields Of the Great Cereals This
Year Will Reach Crop of
1906.

Living prices are speedily to drop
to normal and there will be addec
prosperity for the workingmen of the
country if the predictions of a corps
OF experts employed 10y the Chicago
Commercial National bank prove cor
rect.
The report submitted by. these ex-
perts is to the effect THAT a wave OF
prosperity, evidences of which have
been numerous, is gaining momentum
daily throughout the country.
The basis for the better conditions
is the cereal crop OF the United
States, which pr ages a. lower cos.
of Irving.
The summary OF the banks report
gives the financial, commercial and
industrial condition OF the country
as follows:
Yields OF the great cereals this
year are al bump r record; tie fin
al detennrin axiom win be required tc
give the. first or second place with
1906, when wheat corn and oats a.
rec orded by the agricultural depart
ment aggregated 1921, 100000 bush
els. The yield OF wheat per acre wax
only exceeded once in recent years.
The aggregate OF the crop is 735,26O,.
600 bushels, which was the second
largest crop ever gathered, the record
being mads in 1901, when 74s,Ooo, OO0
took the edge off a poor corn yield.
The effect OF this great crop coming
after two years OF small yields has
stimulated busin~ = as elsewhere re-
counted; 1t comes in time to replen-
ish the depleted stocks ON farms
granaries, elevators, mills, warehouses
and stores The returns are the more
gratifying because he year opened
unpropitiously.
1t Is no longer necessary TO sreai
in cautious terms + faint and sat
tered sign of industrial revival The
evidence VI improving conditions Is
TOO abundant and conclusive to be
gainsaid. The movement has deve1-
o2ed rapidly during the hast three
months, and NOW includes so many
hires and has gained such momentum
.hat, with fundamen | conditions al.
favorable. relapse is no longer to
c feared.
"All Cd the ignls ,llst denote risiI. g
prosperity and all the conditions pre-
cedent are at hand The wreckage
Of :he panic has cleared away; the
apppehensions which it aroused have
disappeared. and our people are fac
ing the future with an optimism and
courage born uf knowledge of the
wonderful resources OF this country.
Shelves are bare OF surplus goods
and the country ha grown UP to its
Facilities and equipment AT this op-
perfume time to insugurate a nav era
OF prosperity comes the best all
round crops ever produced in this
country.
The value OF such a crop at this
time is nestimahle, for all lines OF
business will feel ITS stimulating influ-
euce and all CLASSES viii share I'm its
benefits The farming class has en-
Joyed remarkable period of pros
perity covering the last eleven years
and ats buying power has been the
steadying factor in the Industrial sit
uation since the late depression be
gan
BUT the prices of all farm prod
ucts, which have reached in recent
months the highest general level ever
known. have been oppressive TO the
consumer and the source of much
diseontent
THE food crops of 1909 are so gen
erous in their proportions that no.
ticeable decline in the cost OF living
may be expected, while the farmer
Will make UP in quantity what he
hoses in price and continue to be as
onond "a atc I,a-a+o-fyora