The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-12-17
THE GREATEST CROPS ON RECORD
GROWN DURING THE 1912 SEASON
Over Nine Billion Dollars Coming Out Of the Soil Makes Ger
tain That Era of Prosperity viii Be Ushered
in With the New Year

Nine or ten billions of new mon
ey is enough to make whole ma
ton of more than 90,000,O00 peo-
DIe give thanks. That's what this
years crops amount tO-the
greatest on record. Nature has
been kind to 1912. Crops of all
= kinds have been at their best, or
= very near it. Other years have
. produced tremendous returns
= from some staple, such as corn,
: wheat or hay. But no one year
has shown such bumper yields
of all the old standbys.
: Consequently the S9,00O,O0O,00O
mark is likely to be passed with
i good margin. In August the
> estimate was s9,033, 000, 900, but
: the fall forecasts were even big
ger. Not only have the farmers
cause for rejoicing, but every
. citizen of the land, because SO
much new value has been created,
> and ii will filter through all peck
books, from the wheat raisers OF
= West to the skyscraper popula-
ton of the East.
3 How this may be is easily APP
. parent when we consider that, in
. fourteen years, counting the pres
emit, the aggregate value of farm
= products has reached the tre-
: mendous total of s100,OOO,OOO,-
900.
= Political conditions, the produc-
! ton of gold and many other
= things contribute to prosperity.
: But. after all, its first, primary,
intrinsic cause is production.
\ Wherefore, there is reason to be
: thankful for every one who isn't
a hopeless crouch.
Concrete examples are always bet
ter than generalities. The manner !
which money percolates through tn
community is not generally under
stood, nor could it be explained II
side the space of best seller, say
the Philadelphia, North American.
One can readily understand, though
that $50 100000 a year to the farmer
of one state as the result of an il
crease in just one crop would make
perceptible difference on the prosper
ity side of the ledger.
Big Gain In Corn.
The farmers of George can cel
tainly appreciate the appreciation
value of their corn. This year marx
a gain of the aforementioned sum
the short space of five years.
AS a result of the establishment
corn clubs for boys, the states pr
duction of the staple American cere'
has "whooped up" beyond all imagil
ings. Some years ago the agricu
tural experts gave up all hope
being able to convert the sons of tt
soil to modern methods-directl
They insisted on doing as their Il
theirs and their grandfathers Gil
Their children, though, were open
conviction. So prizes were offered
the boys who could raise the mo
corn on an acre. Any boy in got
standing at home could get that mut
ground on which to experiment.
Helped By Modern Methods.
Pretty soon the Inevitable came
pass. Modern methods, as adopted
the boys, produced hundred or
bushels of corn, where previously
crop of half that would have been co
sidered large. The fathers won
have been insulted by the agricultu
al experts. But when their own sol
began to make them look cheap, the
became ready enough to adopt mo-
ern methods. The increased crop
this year is the answer.
AS before stated, the manner
which such increases in crops are di
tributing prosperity throughout Il
country at large cannot be told in
confined space, but the bald results a