The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-09-11
CROP OUTLOOK
MUCH BETTER
Rains of Past Month Have
Greatly Benefited All Farm
Products-Change No
ted is Wonderful.
AVERAGE YIELDS ARE
ssi' PROMISED PLANTERS

Frankfort, KY, Sept l0.lIn his
crop report for the month of Sep
TENDER. Commissioners Of sAgricnli
tufe Newman says that q naontbaof
seasonable weather has madeal vast
changedRtA4 srsP. irqat9eksfeLcthis
year,, The condition of the tobacco
and .cQrn, cJops. have improyed,t9
spfGh ys an , esfStssSa,ft that average crops
The report ipiIows:, 'o.I 49, n'in'2
. II u difficult 70 believe that SUCH
q change in conditions could be
made within thirty days. Farmers
and livestock men ofthe State are
rejoicing cunufrfons:
nsTlhproved
f"Thereportiof September L shows
the condition of corn eighty-three
per cent as compared with sixty-fiv
per cent August /. Burnley tobacco
eight per cent as compared with
fffty-six per cent. Dark tobacco
seventy-two per cent as compared
with sixty-two percent. Cow peas
and soy beans show a condition of
eighty-one per cent and eighty-twe
per cent. respectively. Bluegrass
shows a condition of eighty-two per
cent as compared with sixty-four
per cent; alfalfa eighty-seven per
cent as compared with sixty. five
per cent; clover, seventy.one per
cent as compared with fifty-flve per
cent. Even fruit has been greatly
Improved by the rains. Livestock
is given as being In better condition
than month ago Gardenconditions
have increased from a condition of
fIfty-one per cent to sixty -four per
cent.
SIN this connection it seems adj
yisable to call the attention of the
farmers of the State to the fact that
the every Indication points to q high
price for foodstuff for next year.
The United States Government au-
thorfties, atheS' railroads and COM
merclslf bodies of the country are
encouraging the sowing of q large
acreage for winter wheat. The Ed-
ropean war will undoubtedly cause
grain and livestock produced In
America to bring good prices during
the next few months, ii not for sew
eral years. We. therefore, urge all
fsrmers to increase their wheat ac-
reage. and to use bone meal or acid
phosphate on their wheat lands.
Peace and Prosperity Promised.
'sThe State has not been so free OF
hog cholera for several years. Far
mers will do well to keep thir brood
sows and to increase their number
of sheep. Pork and mutton prices
VIII unquestIonably be high. the
war coptiphes any length of time,
woolwili be much higher next year
than this. The agents for European
governments arebpsy buying hors-
es aud mules at the present time.
Prices have not materially advanced
but with the war lasting for few
months, it Is reasonable to expect
cavalry and artillery horses as well
as mules,uto very materially adj
varce- price, .o,r,na se
"The tobacco grower will rejoice
over the determination of the Fed
eral Reserve Board to accept potes
secured by warehouse receipt ON
tobacco t9 the extent Of, seventyfive
per cent Of the value of the. crop
from bank members OF the Federal
Reserve Association.
Taken as a'whole, the Kentucky
farmer has every reason for looking
to The future with a hopeful feeling.
Every Indication ia. that peace and
prosperity Is in prospect for him.