Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-07-07

cent, but the consumption has in
creased 60 per cent.
Ten years ago we produced abut
500,000,000 bushels of wheat
and exported 81 1-2 per cent of 1t,
now We produce 700,000,000 bushels
of wheat and export II per cent. In
the same time our corn crop has
grown from ? Ia billion bushels to
2 "a billion bushels. but the home
demand has so increased that our ex-
ports have fallen from 9 to 3 per
cent for all these years we have been
in the proud post of having corn
and wheat for sale, and cheap food
for all our people, but unless we i'm
mediately and radically change our
agricultural methods we will within
the next few years be buyers of food.
The pertinent question is: who
will have it for sale at anything like
reasonable prices?"
We are experiencing in Idaho
Washington and Oregon a phenom-
email growth as is illustrated by the
following figures:
Total value farm lands and buildings
1910. 1900.
Idaho ,..244,420,000 42,31S,0Oo
Gain AIS per cent.
Wash. ...57O,142,0OO 115,61O.OOO
Gain 1898 per cent.
Oregon .453,571,00O 132,33S,O0O
Gain 243 per cent,
Farm Implement Values.
Idaho ..... 10,459,0 200 3,295,OO0
Gain 217 per cent.
Wash...... 16.653,00O 6,272.OO0
Gain 166 per cent.
Oregon go. 13,135,00 6,5O7.0OO
Gain 1902 per cent.
Number of Farms.
Idaho ..........27, 111 1886
Washington .....47,11O 28,O2O
oregon .........37,4 1856 2S,963
Total Acreage.
Idaho ..,. 100000 100000
Gain GA per cent
Wash. . 1863, 900 8,499.000
Gain 81 per cent
Oregon go. 11625,O00 1O,O71,OO0
Expenditure for Labor.
Idaho .... 6,677,000 2.250.0OO
Gain 1871 per cent
Wash. -. 15,223.000 5,28S,00O
Gain 1888 per cent.
Oregon .. 1,,011,000 4,843,OOO
Gain 127 per cent.
Expenditure for Fertilizer.
ldaho .........2l, 900 1900
Gain "a per cent.
Washington .....79,000 $4,000
Gain 172 per cent
Oregon 1900 $4,000
Gain Is per cent.
Now it may surprise you as bank
ers to know that this new element
that Is coming among us is giving lit
tie thought to posterity but is skim
ming the cream from our soils and
in possible ignorance letting the flu
ture take care of itself. Dr. Witty
combe, director of our state expert
mental station, told nue. the other day
that the wheat crop of Oregon an
nually depleted the soil of our state
of over 100000 worth of fertilizer
in the shape of nitrogen.
l.
and to use every particle of fertiliz-
ing material that is within our reach.
The nitrogen, phosphorus and potash
in the stalks from 100 bushels of
corn are worth in carload lots today,
if we had to buy it, $10.55. The
same mineral elements in the stalks
from a bale of cotton are worth
$500 as a rule we burn both and
temporarily destroy the usefulness
of the land upon which the fires are
lighted. We are not only clipping the
coupons, but we are cutting into the
body of the bonds.
In order that instructive matter of
an educational character could be
gathered together for general dis
semination the council Of North Am
erican Grain Exchanges has organ
lied crop improvement committee
which has for its purpose the inter
esting of all organizations in a ma
tional movement TO obtain a larger
yield of better grain, something
which should be earnestly considered
by every vocation and given the at
tention of the best men in every line
of trade. 1t is of vital importance
and should not be considered merely
as a grain exchange proposition, but
som ething which affects the welfare
of every business man in the country.
The crop improvement committee
Of the council has undertaken a very
necessary work and the most impor-
tant feature Of their work is to
awaken every man to the realization
of his own place and his own relation
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