The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-10-31
GREAT WHEAT YIELD
lin CANADA AND us.
Statistics of Wonderful Achieve
ments Told in Reports From
Both Great American
Countries.
PRODUCTION AMOUNTS TO
ONE BILLION BUSHELS
Harvests Will Add Hundreds of
Millions of Dollars of New
Wealth.

FROM the authoritative Canadian
Agricultural Department, there came
one day last week, reports telling of
the results of Canadian grain farm
ing this year measured by bushels.
A lew hours earlier there came from
the like department at Washington.
a report telling of some of the achieve
ments OF the farmers of the United
States, measured in bushels. for
this year. The two reports tell a
wonderful story of agricultural tri-
umphs in the northern half of the
American hemisphere. For instance
the Canadian authorities report that
wheat belts within their Jurisdiction
produced two hundred and seven mil
lion bushels in the aggregate and this
was several million bushels more of
wheat than were garnered last year.
The. Canadian farmers are also in
creaslng the productiyeness of their
SOIL apparently, for their acres pro-
duced this year an average of twen-
ty-one and fifteen hundredths bush
els. This is greater wheat harvest
than any garnered last year for each
acre; not very much, but sufficient
to show that the wheat growers of
Canada are coaXing from the soil bet
ter and better harvests per acre each
year.
From Washington come the report
that our own wheat belts produced
this year little over seven hundred
and fifty-three million bushels. Not
In any other times have the wheat
harvests of the United States been
so great, measured by, bushels, as has
been the case this year. If our own
production of wheat is added to the
Canadian production, it is discovered.
that the North American Continent
has harvested this year nearly one
billion bushels of wheat.
These figures will be read with
some establishment by the European
experts who predicted a few years
ago that gradually, but surely wheat
production throughout the world
would decline so that by and by the
peoples of the earth who have relied
upon wheat for their principal grain
food would be compelled to turn to
something else. Our pre-eminence
as nation which grows wheat in
vast amounts is maintained by the
records OF this year, and yet the fig
ures which tell of the Canadian pro-
ductlon of wheat contain no hints of
greater prOductivenesS in a future
not distant than our own may be.
Twenty years ago it was stated
by John w. Bookwalter who at one
time was Democratic candidate for
Governor of Ohio, that the gradual
but sure cultivation of all of the
available wheat lands of the United
States would not secure harvest
sufficient for the needs of the
American people within genera
tons time. He predicted that the
center of economic gravity would be
changed by that fact and asserted
that the farmers of the United States
would insist upon highly protective
tariff for wheat.
Intensive farming, the partial mas
terry OF the best methods of cultivat-
Ing wheat and the wonderful indus
try and energy of the American farm
ers have produced this year seven
hundred and ,fifty-three million bush
els. Great as these figures are new
erthless, relatively speaking, not so
important as are statistical figures
which tell of what Canadian farmers
did this year. For ever since rail-
road transportation was so perfected
as to make available millions of acres
of good wheat land in the West, the
United States has been producing
more wheat than her people needed
and has been doing this for a gener-
atoms time. These statistics do not
point to any scarcity of food.
But in Canada the production of |
wheat upon great scale has been
comparatively recent. 1t is in the i
memory of every one who is still in
early business life that much of the