The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-25
NORTHWEST CROP
YIELD IS SMALLER
Wheat Will Be 70 Per Cent Of Last
Years Output, But Outlook Is
Promising.
Nv a. q. r. BRIGGS.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, July I'll
The northwestern farmer isn't going
broke this year, whatever the wild
wires may report OF drouth. hot waves
and crop failures, and however much
the Chicago board OF trade may shrek.
He NAV be forced TO take a reef In
his 1899 bumper belt and do his own
chauffeuring, but there's gasoline
enough in sight TO keep the motor
buggy going.
money enough to move them-and pay
for them. The total yield will be
smaller, but the old law OF supply
and demand. combined with an In
creased acreage, will help make up
the difference.
Taken as whole. the farmers OF
Minnesota, North Dakota and South
Dakota will get a somewhat higher
price for a smaller aTop. Mr.. Ulu-
mate Consumer will pay most OF the
freight this year, as usual. for -four
and meat are going up-also as usual
According to the men who finance
and move the annual crop--the bank
ers--conditions In the three states
are not as gloomy as they have been
u.
down all the wheat I'm South Dakota
when II hit John Smiths 4O-acre Held
up In Edmunds county, and the hot
breezes didn't cook all the life out OF
North Dakota when they struck Dew
lis Lake.
This is not bumper year by any
means, as predicted early In the sea.
son. and the total will fall much be-
low 1909, but you may always fg-
ure that reports of bumper crops and
failures are about equally exaggerat-
ed. according to President E. w. Deck
er. OF the Northwestern National bank
here.
Corn Crop 10 Good.
I'VE will have fair crop this year,
and money enough to move II" says
President Decker. "Minnesota's crop
is good. South. Dakota's about rs per
cent and North Dakota's so per cent
This is based on an average crop
OF 13 10 IA bushels TO the acre. An
extra good fax crop will help even up
matters In North Dakota. Oats have
suffered considerably everywhere, but
corn is doing very we'll, especially in
lower Minnesota. where they raise a
I
supposed. and use Il for hog feeding"
Other bankers in the Twin Cities
have much the same reports from
clients all over the three big grain
states. West OF the Red river valley
the farmers are hardest hit, and the
whole state OF North Dakota seems 10
have suffered more than her southern
sister or Minnesota.
The tightening of the money market
has made tie bankers chary and eau
tious on loans for commercial or spec
ulative purposes, even on extra good
security, but they have no fears of
handling the crop movement.
Two weeks ago was rather pes.
simistic about the crop, said Presi-
dent Bailey of the First National of
st. Paul, but since then the rains have
helped and have learned from many
points that the reports OF total failure
are confined To isolated cases. 1t is
true they are blowing wheat under in
some localities. but that condition is
not NJ all general. The straw Is short.
! but the grain on top is said TO be fill.
Ing out well
Miilin9sWheat to BE Higher.
Wheat for milling purposes will be
| higher this fall would not be sur.
prised TO, SEQ II go above $l.25, or even
! up to $3.50"
! That means higher duty on the
/ stan OF life, wherein Mr. Consumer
helps the farmer bear his loss.
Old Madam Nature PLAYED n few
queer pranks this year When all
tho scenes were laid for another
bumper crop. with increased acreage
and the 1909 appetite whetted 20 a
keen edge, she sent along an unsu-
ually cold, late spring That started
the first calamity reports But Ceres
proved herself quite a wise old lady,
in view OF the dry times ahead. The
cold spring weather gave the wheat
just what 1t needed to withstand the
hot time coming Instead Of shoot.
ing upward rapidly under the inhu.
ence of warm suns the seed sprouted
and spread out below the ground,
sending its roots deeper down into
the earth--stooling, the farmers call
Il. And these same long roots sus-
tained the wheat through the ralnIess
period, extracting he moisture from