The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14

of that kind, although II IS clearly an agreement respecting price and involves combinations However this combination is not restraint of trade, nor will 1t stand unlawfully in the way of compeu- ton.
 Another factor of which MT. Davison smoke was the harvests which are to be reapcd in the summer and fall of this year, for upon the magnitude and quality of these harvests reliance Is to be placed for the final stimulus which will lead to the kind of prosperity which Charles NJ. Schwab a few days ago yentured predict, and in a more cautious use of words. James J. Hlll President Farrell of the United States Steel corporation and Judge Gary professed to see awaiting the United States within few months.
 Nearly a Billion Bushels If, as sometimes has happened In the past, the early summer estimate of the wheat harvests which the government au. thorlties have made is found, when the crop is harvested. to have been an unr derestlmate, this being also true of early predictions respecting Indian corn, then | it is not unlikely that in the fall it will be possible for the government authorities to report that the farmers have harvested | approximately 1.O00,O00,000 of wheat 1t | cannot be said that the European war is ] chiefly responsible for this great harvest, | for last year at a time when a greater part of the wheat had been threshed and
 stored there was no thought of war in Europe Undoubtedly the reasonable cer- tainty that excellent prices could be ob- tail ed for wheat as well as an assured market led the farmers to put forth their | best efforts when sowing and cultivating | the wheat belts. But the chances are that the effort would have been practically
 the same even though there had been no ! war.
 some years ago Mr Hill earnestly urged the farmers to adopt more scientific meth-
 eds of cultivating wheat, and his efforts in that line were supplemented by William | C. Brown, then president of the New York Central Railroad company, whose early training was upon great farm in l Iowa Some of the railroad companies
 sent out travelling schools for the purpose
 of showing the farmers how best they
 could cultivate not only wheat, but other 1 crops.
 Twenty years ago, Join w. Bookwalter after his defeat for governor of Ohio devoted a year or two to exhaustive study | of wheat belts. MT. Bookwalter, after | this study ventured to say that unless
 the United States had a care we should | be compelled within a few years to inn
 port wheat. since our population was growing more rapidly relatively than our
 wheat production. The agitation of these men and the method by which new wheat
 areas were secured, together with the fact that wheat commanded ready mar ket and profitable one. have served
 grea tly to increase our wheat output. And vet were our farmers to realize as many | bushels per acre as the wheat farmers
 of England, whose soil has been culti vated for 1000 years, are able to do. the l wheat harvest this year would probably be I nearer 2OOO O000OO than 1.000 900, 900 bushels Unless unfavorable weather comes before the wheat harvest. the last factor in MT lDavisons predlction-that we would enter this year upon period of prosperity sucf
 as no nation of the world had known will be justified.