The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-14
WHEAT CROP WILL BREAK
RECORD IN NORTHWEST

Spokane, Wash, April IA. - Pros
poets for record wheat crops in the
Northwestern states are more likely
to be realized this season than during
any similar period in the history of
the country, and, taking all things in
consideration, there is every indication
that the farmers in the Inland Empire
will harvest more grain than ever be-
fore. However, there need be no fear
that the yield, enormous as it may be,
will cause prices to fall ruinously low"
A. W. Lindsay, cashier of the Fidel-
ity National bank of Spokane, who has
made a study of farm conditions in
the Northwest for twenty years and
lis recognized as an expert, made the
foregoing observation in the course
of an interview after reading reports
from the banks correspondents In
various parts of the country. He ad-
ded:
Then there is the winter wheat,
which looks well, as far as this sec
tion Of great country is concerned.
Furthermore seeding time has been
under auspicious conditions-all of
which tends to show a great yield.
But there need be no fear that the
yield will be so great that the price
will fall ruinously low. In the first
place the demand is ever greater than
the supply. This country is year by
year exporting less of its grain, and
so far has this tendency been marked
that it would seem likely that the
United States, as whole, will present
ly become a wheat importing country.
Taking in the whole of the North
west, exclusive of Alberta, will not
be surprised to learn that the total
yield of 1910 approached that of the
whole of Canada just couple of years
ago
I'VE might have had banner crop
last season if it had not been for the
windy March and the open winter of
19OS-1909 In many places the winter
wheat had so often frozen and thawed.
lacking protection of snow, that it
was forced out of the soil and the
fields had to be reseeded. Then again.
in those places where the soil, though
fertile. is light, the March winds of
1903 literally blew the seed out of the
ground, before it had time to germin-
ate. Notwithstanding these draw
backs, last season was the second best
on record in the Northwest and the
yield was prodigious.
This season the weather has been
infinitely more favorable. There was
a considerable fall of snow, which.
lying on the ground at the most criti-
cal time of the year, protected the
seedlings from the rapidly alternating
spring frosts and thaws, so destruct-
i've to winter wheat. Then again. the
spring has been warm and sufficient
ly moist to permit of the new grain
getting a firm hold on the ground.
Most of these took up land. Some
went in for apple raising and some
in other branches of farming but there
are numbers who, attracted by the
fertile lands of the Northwest, are
breaking land for wheat, bringing
more acreage under cultivation and
adding to the assets of |
the country. For in the final analysis |
the wealth of the cities is based upon
the prosperity of the farmers, who are,
truly enough, the backbone of the ma
ton. Thus the new settler not only |
provides himself with work when he
goes upon the land, but at the very
same time at least provides employ
nent for one or the other of his family
n the city, whose breadwinner will be
In catering to the wants of
he agriculturists."