Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-19
STORK BUSY ENOUGH
 IN CHICbGO ID SUIT
 COLLNEL EOOstLELI

CHICAGO. Ill.,. May 1S.-colonel Roosevelt will find that the stork has been very Las. ani race suicide on the whole unl opular in chica. Nhen Le investigates, as he Will do ln person, the Cnlld Welfare Ex- Llhit ILe censIs figures show that theie are 1,7z9 familles in Chicago Nitn elgGt lving ehI4Ten in each. 679 with nine each, g1O witn te each, 55 with ele ien, l9 with twelve and three with thirteen. The latter Is the greatest namLer ol hvng ma ors in one family. Of the 5,907 fam d.es hltn ole than seven children each, the Germans, with a total of l,t95, a4e shown to te the most rIo lt.c. The IDles are second. w.t. j,o44. H nile tlc American torn Tai ents ale, a close third, with L.002. According to the report, the Rus slams have 573 families with seven ol Mole cnilcfSl eaih. 563 are lr.sI. 362 Italian. 33I Bohemian. 206 SUed- ish, lS2 Austrian. 94 Holland, g. Canadian. S7 Engllsh. 72 Norwegian. 90 ranish. 34 Scotch. 70 Rolmanians, s French, 2 Swiss, Beig.ans, Greek. 1 Croatian anI 10 from other oOantries The Smietanka family with 10 childEen holds the record. for there are three sets of twins, aga z. II and 14 years; this record of twins thlee tiWes in seven years Icing aLoat the best the city can do.
 Ahout Hiafs Prices.
 The slump in the cost of living urged by the Farmers National con sress as a reason for its opposition to the Eending reef Erocity bill has leen matter Of dis ute in Chica- 90, although prices Of retaile1s in some cases show declines in tue COST Of foof. Meats are lower although furniture IS to be advanceI by the
 .urut ra C. st" Comparisons Of prices this year with those or the so~c fpf 'n 1910 show a decline or 9 to , cents in pork chors. 2 or cents ;n porterhouse steak, nearly 10 cents in bl tier, am alwost 49 Ter cent in the price Of mutton and lard. The Farmers National con aEess, however. arguol that the farmers wolld suffer from reel Troc.ty treaty and that they should not le made 10 do SO because inc ab- norual prices of 1910 10 not now Irevail. While wheat on the Illinois and Kansas farms is one-fourth low CT thau year ago. the Farmers congress declared. the same loaf Of 6 cad S soli for cents in Chicago. The price of hogs on the Illinois
 nd Iowa far uTing the Tast thir- ty days las cen only GO Ter cent of the rice ring the sare re-io1 of l9 o, b-t the prices of meats to the citT cons lner are nearly as hlgl TOW as e en. The farmer is not the one to strike at tecause of the hi. b prices food stuff s to city con slu CTS" The econOl ic reason for high retan TTices is attri utei by some of the big merchants to anoth- er SC. as is s 0 rn by the an -nceu ent that another chain of re- tail stores wEich may ultimately .......,zr l5O IS 10 DC Ia -nchet. The .pUrf ose is to reduce the ratio Of Celiverv ani overhead exrenses by ] fncreas'nz the yoluTe O tra1e aud i n Lty of capital has been ayailabls | for uerchandising on the new lines
 French Peasant Comparison
 ] The ten acres and inder endence' ] argument which has induced tho7s- 1 fn of city men to go Tack 10 the ' lan7." a movement in which Chicago ! vas feada~art~rs. has been chai' eng ed by a monograph to the American ' StJVs fcal assoc ation written by ' Pro-. T. ". Carver, of Harvard uni versity. They are holding up to our ' ad istion the Trench reasant, he said, but the French peasant who has to make his living by general farming off a thirtv-acre farm must ' Of -ee- ssity rse inferior netNods Of rroduction. Such a farm will not sup rort a rood team Of horses, sone- tines not even yoFe O. oxen. The + far7e CT therefore finds 1t nore eco | noTicai to use his milch COW for craft animal and 70 the rest ot the Y wo k " hand That is. he will have L uore let for hinself by this process than he ould if he tried to use team Of horses, for the horses woui1 eat up so large a rro- ortion or the tctal cron as to leave Dim less TOT his own famlv, even though the ho- ses could do more work than the p-ilch COW. This tyre Of s"all-scale farming also seeurs to te disappear ing. iudefng by the statistics which lave feen given us. The soil is be- II"
 ing made 10 prodCcs more thoro1gn c-ltivat' on. not through the use or more lahor, but by the use Of Tore carital. That seems to re the signit f-ant thing that is happening m the state of Iowa and tHe agr1c'ltur. al regions Of the s'irro1rdi77 states
 AnotFer Reform Needed.
 Radical reform Of the lays reiat- ing to irrigation to reTedy their rr~se,t Sesects and to nrovide an a5- sol-te title to the settler instea7 of Suri iors recourse at law seems likely to be taken up prior to and d1rlns the National Irrigation congress m Chfcago nevt autu~n. Since the srasv- nf fno~iry in 1905. when both the departments Of the interior and os agri ~uIture eot into vi0orous ac- ton and secured a rerort on the laws of Canada. which are neid up