The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-25
MIL IONS IN WHEAT
By Frederic j. Haskin.

sscnegaeaneeaoaesr -
the American farmer VINO grows
wheat Is this year to make more
money than ever before. On every
brs8eI of wheat he haEesttSs the e1-;;
perts say, he Will assuredly GET
return that viii be five times tnaLx 70 70
which he Is accustomed BE WIZ s1 IN
an probability harvest a crop. ac-ss
co4snr Ia government estimates, that
VIII be far greater than even that OF
Hast year, which broke all records-
Under which condihonSS It appears
that. IN these roublous times. fne
/ wheat farmer Is the faTorttes child OF
the tickle goddess
| With the wheat harvest already
well under way IN Oklahoma and 1us1
ibegfnning in Kansas the season IS
s1ficiently developed TO make re
1iable forecast Under these scondi-
lions the governments crop report
Ing board places the probahe crop
at $4,000; 600 bushels or 600O0.Ooo
! greater than the bumper crop OF last
year. It Is sure to be the greafest
wheat crop America has ever grown.
and to sell at price that has never
tbefore been approached
| These. 1age wheat returns Wouo
mean great prosperity in the regions
y
normal conditions, but under those at
present existing they mean wealth
The added price Of a bushe1 OF wheat
is increased net profit for 1t costs
as much to grow cheap wheat as
I hIgh-priced wheat
a study Of the returns on single
fbusheI OF wheat is illuminating. On
the first OF July of last year, with
the harvest we'll under way In kan
81 Trhaaf SeEIaH2
for seventy cents. It had cost at
least sixty cents to raise that bushel
The profits was, therefore, ten cents
"a bushel after due allowance had
been made for the farmers waged-
Under these conditions wheat raising
yielded barely adequate retuns.
On the first OF July Of the present
year, the prognosticators say, wheat
will be selling for s1-20 in Kansas
On the first OF June it was worth
s1Lao. This bushel OF wheat also
cost sixty cents to raise The net
profit on 1t is, therefore, sixty cents
instead Of ten. With no additional
investment or care the profit OF
wheat farming, on the basis OF TINS
years prospects. has been increased
500 per cent
be a, little less than last Her crop
last year amounted to F6300, 600
bushels The profits upon 1t. on a
July valuation, were about ST.
$50, 900, and produced such prosperity
as Kansas had never before known
This year the crop Will amount to
134. 600 bushels. but, with net
profit OF sixty cents a bushel, the
kansas farmer will secure $1,000
600 or nearly five times as much
money
| The advantage to the farmer this
year over last lies in the fact that
high prices promise to prevail at the
time the crop is harvested Last.
year at harvest time the wheat price
was low The farmer had sold much
! of his crop before the war broke out
and prices began their rapid increase
American wheat sold at advanced
prices. but the profits went largely
| to the middlenaan- This year the far
mer will secure adj the advantages
that are to be derived from the abb
normal conditions
When the wheat industry IS con-
sidered in its entirely it is 50 large
as to appan him who tries to grasp
It. It is the greatest Industry on
.earth, requires more capital to carry
4 it on Yields a greater value than any
thing else to which man turns his
hand
In the growing of wheat the United
states leads ali other nations The
yield OF the world amounts to nearly
four billion bushels and it falls to
1.-THE United States to produce one
fourth of that amount Europe gTows
half the wheat of the world and those
nations at war are responsible 1o1
most of it
The area that Uncle Sam puts into
wheat amounts to 100000 acres.
which means little without standard
/ of comparison This figure may be
lapproached when it is said that Uncle
Sans wheat field equals the area OF
Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont,
MASSACHUSETTS, Connecticut, Rhole
Island. New jersey. and Delaware
over Holland, Belgium, Denmark,
iSwitzerIand and Serbia taken to-
1 gether Such Is the area from which
the United states is to pull its IN
I precedented profits this year
I! Nothing could have been more for
tunate that the position In which the
wheat farmer found himself at the
breaking out OF the European war
!, This country had been steadily IN
creasmg its acreage for a dozen
years In 1914 more OF Its wheat
| lands were seeded than ever before
Early In the year conditions were not
favorable and 1t was expected that
the crop would be less than normal
Then. as harvest approached. all the
scondftions conspired to make the
lripening crop come into the fullest
fruition- The greatest OF crops was
harvested.
with this crop In its elevators. the
LIMITED States began TO scan the re-
turns from other parts OF the world
Reports showed that Europe had faI-
Hen 3oS. 0O0. Coo bushels below the