Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-21
FIRST REALLY PEssIMIsTlc RE.
PORT ON YIELD COMES FROM
CEDAR RAPIDS.
SHORT, POOR CORN CROP IN
LINN, JOHNSON AND BENTON
Farmers Of the Three Counties Will
Suffer Hsavy Loss and es Compelled
to 1uy-Such Corn a. They Have
, 10 Too Soft to ksep-Msans Higher
Prices.

| Cedar Rapids, Nov. 21.-Eow after
much OF the 1910 corn crop has been
husked there Is no longer any doubt
and Benton counties is a failure in
ever sense OF the word. The corn is
o. very poor quality and the crop
| is short, and as a result the farmers
of these three counties have suffered
| loss tina, will amour, into the thous
ards of dollars
When Charles Minor and seven far
mers, each coming from a different
section of the country make state
men.s that are enumerated in the
above paragraph there is no fear that
anybody Will dispute the information.
The statements are no, made by farm
ers who want 10 give the government
joyful reports that viii boost their
community. they are statements made
by men Who are intensely interested in
the corn situation, ard who spend
much time gathering their informa-
ton: and they are statements that are
as nearly correc, as any that the city
man can get hold of. a Gazette rep
resecrative interviewed Charles Minor
and the farmers. and what he learned
was certainly discoura ging.
If the average citizen who knows
even a little bit about corn would take
me trouble to go 10 the market street
| and examine some OF the new corn, he
| would oe coerced into becoming lseSsi-
mist. The ears are stEnted stunte6 so
! tina; they look like cripples. The corn
! is wet. Many of the farmers say tnat II
1 IS as bad as last year.
Corn Too Wet TO Keep.
1 The statement that the corn IS wet
/ is the most discou-aging OF al II
means that the corn viii not keep.
! Last year the corn was We, and ev-
e-ybody VIII remember what serious
troubles the grain caused. II became
I uouldy while being shipped 70 he big
/; markets. II could not be used for mill
ing purposes and i. could not be kept
I for any length of time in the city
+, mans barn.
! Several loads Of new corn appeared
i Q tnhe market Saturday. They were
examined by about a dozen men ana
each man pronounced the corn unnt
to keep. When the corn is wet ana
! the ears are Stunted. the situation pc
comes alarming indeed. and the ques-
! ton arises now Viii the buyers OF THESE
three counties be supplied.
(, The farmers are more pessimistic
about this years corn crop than are
| city buyers. Nobody can convince the
farmers that Iowas crop is a record
breaker. and they claim that all the
! joyful government reports published in
1.-THE newspapers are the mere talk OF
! optimistic reporters who wish to boost
their own community. The farmers
| are so overcome with the failure IN
! their own counties that they will not
| admit that a good crop could be pos
sible IN other counties.
Price Must Advance.
The situation confronting the buy
| ers Of these three counties. and esps-
,cial1y the buyers of Cedar Rapids. is.
indeed, a serious one. The price must
go up. The big markets show all IN
| dication Of keeping the corn prlce
| down. but in spite OF what the big
markets will do, there is no doubt that
Cedar Rapids buyers must pay more
for their corn At the present time
there is no corn being shipped into
this city. and the buyers depend on 10
cal production. The local producers
have little corn to sell and that which
/ they have they will not sell at present
t prices 1t is the opinion OF men who
understand the situation that even II
/ the prices on the big markets drop
| low. TIE Cedar Rapids buyers VIII pay