The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-09-16

west states show the farm products OF
these states will sell for $500, 00O, 900.
or 500, 100000 more than last year. "A
gain in the wheat acreage of North
Dakota and Montana and the splendid
wheat crops in the Pacific states make
up for the small yield and decreased
acreage in other sections of the North
west, and the total wheat crop is es-
timated at 224,0O0,000 bushels, or al
most as much as last year. The pro-
duction of oats has been influenced
much as the wheat. 1t is estimated
there will be total of $4,000, 900
bushels in the eight states, or within
10 per cent of last years great crop.
The promise is for 116, 100000 bushels
of corn, a full crop. The total pro-
duction of fax is said to be nearly
double last years short yield, and
there is some increase in barley.
Owing to the increased value per
bushels of the products of the soil, it
is said the farmers in the Northwest
will receive much more for their crops
this year than they did last year. The
total value of the wheat crop is said
to be within per cent of last years,
the corn crop is worth 20 per cent
more, there is a like increase in oats,
and the value of barley and fax far
exceeds that of last year.
Minnesota farmers are to receive al
most as much for their crops as they
did last year. North Dakota crops are
worth nearly three times as much as
last year, South Dakota grains are
worth two-thirds as much as her big
crops of 1910, and fair allowance for
her dry fodder, silage and improved
pastures and ranges will make the to-
tai return of South Dakota farming
almost up to her usual prosperity.
Idaho and Montana crops this year
have a greatly increased valuation
over those of the past two years Al
falfa and potatoes have added greatly
to their prosperity.
President Taft's coming Swing
round the circle" will prove one of the
most extended tours ever undertaken
by President of the United States.
The trip, beginning September Is at
Boston, will last forty-eight days, dur
ing which period the President will
visit no less than lis cities. He will
be in Minneapolis October "a and in
st. Paul the following day. The Pres
ident returns to Washington Novem-
Der 1. He will be accompanied by
Major Archibald Butt, his military
secretary. Mr. Taft will deliver a
series of addresses in support of the
policies of his administration.
Manager Swoyer of the Brooks plant
of the American Locomotive company
at Denkirk, N. Y, announced last Mon
day that as all engines scheduled for
the local works have been completed
the plant will be closed indefinitely
to Manager Swoyer the
New York Central lines wanted to
send $50 engines here for work that
would have kept the plant running
four months longer, but the company
was obliged to decline this order on
account of the boilermakers refusing
to do the work because of a strike
boilermakers of the New York
Central lines.
The total number of visiting nurses
engaged in tuberculosis work in Min
nesota is thirty-two. The records of
the State Anti-Tuberculosis society
show that Minneapolis leads, with 10,
st. Paul is next with 8, and Duluth
third with 8. There is one each in
Fairbault and Mortified,
and four county nurses.
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