The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-10-07

and twenty-five million bushels of q
fine a quality as was ever grown.
Illinois will have excellent crops 'es
pecially in the center and southern
I sections is the belief of G.. p. REYNOLDS
editor of The Prairie Farmer of Chi
cago. The corn crop will be larg
despite the dry conditions and whea1
will be fine. Mr.. Reynolds believes
the oat crop will be record breaker
The dairy products will be up TO thei
usual good average.
Wisconsin Farmers Are C0ntented.
/ Everything is going fine in Wis
oonsin and the farmers are prosper
Gus and contented," says c.. II. Ever
EFT, editor of The Wisconsin Acricul
turist of Racine. The grain yield i;
nearly up TO the average while the
corn crop will reach so per cent OIL
more. Hay is lighter but OF unusual
ly excellent quality. All of the root
crops with the exception OF potatoe,
are excellent. Potatoes are light and
short OF the average yield. Tobacco is
good and apples light Mr.. Everett
says he has travelled around the state
great deal recently but nowhere has
he heard any complaint from the farm,
ers OF hard times. He SAYS prices
are generally good and every farmer
has something to sell.
Iowa farmers are on Easy street ,
I according TO James Atkinson. editor OIL
The Iowa Homestead at Des Moines
Crops are i'll splendid condition through
ont the state. Corn will give three
hundred million bushels while the oat
crop is estimated at one hundred and
sixty-tive million bushels. Hay is
about normal
ii. c. Wallace, assistant editor OF
Wallace's Farmer says, ':The high
prices for grains and all live stool,
means that Iowa farmers will have
no occasion to deny themselves either
necessities or Injuries and probably
nowhere in the world are there so many
prosperous people in proportion to
their total number"
Northwest Crops Abundant.
North Dakota is the only state in
the Northwest that has been seriously
affected by the recent. dry weather.
In some sections OF the Northwest
however, there have been crops below
the average, but wherever these par
tial failures or diminished crops have
occurred the farmers have enioyed
bumper crops for five or six years and
are therefore prepared to stand the par
tial setback. according to II. C. Klein
OF The ST. Paul Farmer
II. n. Owen, publisher of Farm,
Stock and Home of Minneapolis, re.
ports that North Dakota has had a
very light crop. Despite this. condi-
tons IN North Dakota are good and
there is no encouragement.
North Dakota farmers know their
state and intend to stay in it. What
ever they need, they have the money
TO buy and everyone is optimistic that
next year will bring about another
flood OF record breaking crops. The
North Dakota yields are estimated at
about 40 per cent of the normal.
T. V. Collins of The Northwestern
Agrlculturist at Minneapolis, is opti-
mlstlc concerning the Minnesota crop.
Mr.. Collins reports that Minnesota has
larger and better crop than the ave-
rage during the last ten years. The
market prices remain firm, which means
that Minnesota farmers are more pros
porous than they have been for MANY
years. In fact, more prosperous than
they have ever been.
The best crops have been raised in
what is known as the Beach District
OF Western Minnesota. While >, GOOD
grain crop has been raised, the hay
crop is light. The yield of corn prom.
ises to be the best ever raised.
An Indication of the optimistic spirit
OF the Minnesota farmer is shown by
the attendance at the Minnesota state
fair. More than 274,OO0 persons at
tended the fair and that is $4,000 more
than any other year. Business inter-
ests need not expect shrinkage from
this section of the country.
Nebraska Incomes Will Be Large.
According to L. s. Heron. editor of
The Nebraska Farmer at Lincoln, Ne.
braska's corn crop will be far above
the average while wheat has taken a
slight drop. Prices are showing an in.
crease and the income of the farmers
should at least equal that of last year.
Nebraska farmers are feeling good and
ali business in that state should eniov
uninterrupted prosperity.
Missouri crops will average better
than last year according to w. Fisher
lock of The st. Louis Journal of Apri-
culture.
when Governor Stubs of Kansas
said that General Prosperity was still
making his headquarters in that state,
he characterized the situation correct
ly," says Arthur Capper, publisher of
The Farmers Mail and Breeze, Topeka,
Kan. Wheat in Kansas will probably
total seventy million bushels and the
quality has not been equaled since
1854. The record for oats was broken
and present prospects indicate corn
crop of two hundred and twenty five
million bushels, the largest since $780,
The hay crop is good-the prices re-
main high. Governor Stubbs estimates
the value Of the crops and live stock
at approximately five hundred and
thrty-two million dollars 1882 .OOO,-
O0O) which shows that the state is