The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-13

sss An average of IS bushels per acre is one or the best yields we have ever had, II Indicates that in addition to favorable climatic conditions the wheat growers of the United States are more and more mastering the high science of successful wheat culture.
 several years ago MT. Hill made in- quiries about wheat cultivation in Eng land He was anxious to know what vir- tue there was in a soil which had been cultivated for more than 1000 years. Amer lcan wheat lands have not been cultivated to any great extent for .-e.s,, over eC years certainly not on very large scale until few years before the civil war. If has been always practically virgin soil. Presumably the soil of Great Britain, which has been compelled to yield year after year for over 1000 years, should be by this time exhausted.
 What England Does
 Mr. Hill received authoritative informa- ton which showed him that the farmers Of England were able 10 coax on an av- craze some 90 bushels of wheat per acre rom the soil. If these farmers could do that from the soil which has been under cultivation since the time of William the Conqueror 1t would seem to MT. Hill and to others who have studied this subject that the American wheat lands should yleld much larger average per acre than they have ever done. If winter wheat in the United States were to yield proportion ately as large an amount per acre as the farmers of Great Britain are able to get rom their soil the government authorities at Washington would have reported early this week that winter wheat in the United States would probably yield 1000, 900 ooO pusnels and spring wheat perhaps 60o.000.- o00 bushels. Yields relatively as large as this must be obtained from our soil if we are to maintain our pre-eminence as a provider of wheat for our own people and seller of wheat in large amounts to the people of other lands. Mr. Hill is certain that the American farmers will be able, if they adopt the highest scien- tific methods, to obtain yearly harvests with an average yield of from 20 to 25 bushels per acre at least
 The Money Point of View
 If the forecast made by the government authorities should be justified by the event, and if the harvest of Indian corn. of which it is too early to secure any thing but very vague estimate, be of normal amount, then the American crops for the year 1914 should have a money value of not far from $10000, GOO, ,000 This estimate is based upon the expectation
 
 nal cotton harvest.
 yield of new wealth of $1O GOO GOO GOO ob- tained from the cultivation of the soil can- not fail favorably to affect business. Even though the goomiest outlook, based upon the belief that the new tariff law is seri- ously to affect American manufacturing interests, be accepted as we'll founded. still harvest of this kind will do much. in the view of business experts, to offset whatever unfavorable influences may be created.
 The best authorities are confident that the American harvests should yield and should be made to yield as much as s15.- 000000,OO0 year of new wealth or new money With improved methods of trans portation and of distribution of the har- vests so that they can in the most eco- nomical manner reach the ultimate con sumer, the farmers should get a much larger share of this new wealth than they have received in the past. although it is a fact that within the past five or six years the American farmers have been re- ceiving much larger share of the money obtained from their crops than thev gained in earlier years