The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-05-01
YEARS or PROSPERITY AHEAD
Farmers Assured Of Good Prices FOR
Their Products.

Their Products.
IT requires no very keen observer
of agricultural conditions throughout
the world to note that the agrleht-
turists Of the United States nave
years of great prosperity before them
liz given normal climatic conditions
for their crops. With 4-pound loaf
Of bread selling ait IT cents in Lon
don; with food riots in Italy. Pof-
tugaI and Spain; with the Belgian
people depending upon the charity OF
this continent for food, with the
known scarcity of grain in Austria,
Germany. Switzerland, Turkey and
Holland; with the Russian govern
menf assuming control OF the grain
within its domains, and with d.
900 900 of people in Mexico facing
| starvation. there remains no doubt
of the urgency of immediate and ia
ture demands.
| Now as to the supply Canada, s
$50 900 sfalwart men on the battle
fields of Europe out OF her small
population means less production Of
foodstuffs in the Dominion.
Great Britian.s order to Egypt S
! farmers that one-third of the cot
! ton acreage must be given up and
1.-THE released area planted in rice,
means less cotton next year from
Egypt and more rice for Egypt's own
population. but ii signifies nothing
] for the relief of the hungry
lrope. s
!. 1lsssn cannot possibly 1.
of its normal & IS.
veal alicia. PoIa ~, a Ia
STA Servia, and OF of France
will yield next to nothing SO far as
/ field crops are concerned.
Farmers of Great Britain are pro-
Testing now against recruiting and
Iare angry with the British cabinet
for recent attempts to call the de
pleted class Of farm lahorers to the
battlefields.
| They argue that their laborers are
needed to help raise food for the
army, the navy and the British PEG
pie. and III that way are rendering
| the greatest service to the empire.
Russia has drawn fully 5000, 900 Of
men from her fields, and Germany
Austria, Italy and France will each
and all Of them fall Far short Of
usual aereages in cultivation.
The neutral nations, Holland
Spain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden
have drawn heavily Egaugh mobillza
| ton afatroops upon - s lseS
/ az -. too, viii be 4
deficiencies In foo
70 The United States thu 4
dreds of millions of populat
be forced to look for supplies for TIN
coming fifteen months of great deaEtl
in their own countries, and not il
the next five years viii it be pos
|sibie for the War-sfricken nations o.
Europe to attain the records of foof
production of their recent past.
!. The farm products of the United
States will be called upon for thu
supply of the world, and the cash q
the world will flow here in powerful
currents to pay the planters AM
/ farmers for their products of thei,
lands.
i Given prosperity in our agricultur
al districts, who can doubt the pros
| perity in our financial, commercial
land Industrial affairs Washington
/ Cd. CD Post.
/ 4 dozen persons were killed ant
as many more injured by the col
/ lapse Of two three-story mercantile
1 buildings at Birmingham, Ala, Apri
III. The buildings were occupied b.
/ the Hahn shoe store and the AT
lantie and Pacific Tea Company
and their destruction was caused b.
the fiye-story wall OF an adjoinins
burned ruiIding toppIlng ever in ;
heavy wind.
i The annual meeting Of the Assc
ciated Press was held in New Yorl
last week, and the former officer
and executive committeeman Wer
| nearly all reelected. Daniel Z
Moore of the New Orleans Times
Pfeayune WAS chosen first vice pres
| ident, and Col. Rebt. Ewing Q
the New Orleans Daily States wa
made a member of the southern ad
visory board.
il lame Back.
i Lame back is usually due to rheI