The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-08-24
crops BEYOND The
DREAMS OF fE.'294H
,nprAD OVER UNCLE SAM
,rnr AREAS AND SURPASS
ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS.
.1HfIR VALUE S5,3OO,OOO,O 600
.uou,ipe Away Is the Billion Bushel
O Wheat Field and Other Things
,,,ouob to Feed EurOpe's Armies
uorses for Ten Years.


and Horses for Ten Years.
ALONG about now, after the haying
,oro and while the yellow grain is
~, h1owing away like vast sea I'M
' ,'I.t;ro in the August breeze, While
.so hovs are grinding the reaper
,nos and fixing the binder twine
~ cling up the threshers, Uncle
Conn sits for a spell on the fence and
an+omplates with satisfaction the
snroad before him on his broad
and fertile acres.
Now if is that he makes his final
.,,ouIation as to what the yield will
- He chews a straw and prognos-
.,.o+oe and ruminates and figures,
s.a when he gets down from the
sorco and commences to roll up his
Gloves to pitch into harvesting he
,.n guess pretty closely how much
he will garner.
The last crop estimate before har-
roct is always interesting. 1t and 1t
limo determines whether prosperity
,.oboc on orr banner. If the crops
tou the farmers have lean time
how do not have money to spend to
Ooirt their houses and to buy auto
mobiles and for the women folks to
INV new clothes and have that add1-
inn built on the house and so on.
When the farmer does not spend at
tho village store the village merchant
sannot order goods from the smart
so,osmen of Chicago and New York
Ind the rest of the world. When the
kalesmen can't persuade them to I'LL
their shelves the factories and mills
b. on half time and shut down, de-
Dression reaches industrial centers,
Dovertv stalks in the streets, working
olks 90 hungry and the bread line
stretches out into the winters night.
That is why the whole nation, the
bankers the manufacturers, store
keepers and the folks who work in
he industrial hives have a feeling
bf content when the crop report
Eomes out in August with Bumper
Ginning all over it.
Beating All Records.
And this year Uncle Sam is fairly
beating himself. What he will draw
&nto his barns and warehouses Will
Exceed in value five billions of dol
ars-$5, 100000 is the way it
strings out in figures.
Look we'll at those figures. No
bther nation since the sun began to
thine on this planet has ever produc-
ID such crop. When Egypt had its
seven years of plenty and Joseph en-
&neered that first corner in wheat
bnd filed the storehOuses and forced
his old father, the patriarch JACOB,
10 send his other boys to buy, there
FaS never such a crop as this. Per-
faps in all the seven years that JOS
Rph piled up wheat he did not garner
Bne-tenth of what the lanky old gen
leman with chin whiskers and kind
" eyes will lay by this year. 1t is
more than Pharaoh ever dreamed OF.
Crops are not harvested yet; accu-
Tate figures are not possible, but the
OrecaSts of the experts simmered
Town and averaged up agree that
ney beat the world.
With the $500, 100000 that the
wheat and corn and other food crops
Mould fetch the United States could
Build fleet of warships whose thun-
ers would shake the earth, 80 SUI
erdreadnoughts costing ST., 0OO,-
w apiece and still have a few mil
Ions left to buy powder to fire OF
pc guns. Thirteen Panama canals,
oSting $500, 100000 apiece, could be
ug and walled up by what this year
Prop would fetch.
eh-lear Ration for EurOpe's Troops
The armies of Europe now under
ms eat considerable; their horses
5qulre some forage; the victualling
the forces is a serious question
I'm the powers. Mass all the armies
lu all their horses in one mess ana
united States crops this year
&# - ACCu lHtIH IOI Ten y Gdi >. -
our own army they could eat and
a. and feed their horses till they
uisl and they'd never eat their way
+iGOgh. 1t would take EN- couple
thousand years to reach the bottom
T Sle pile of just this years crop.
"ueat-this year wheat will close
crowd the billion bushel marx
ru may go above it for the first
e' Corn will be 1900, 100000
S@ 4oIs close to our high water mark
NJ dSiZ when the tasseled fields pro
uoeq 5I24,746, 900 bushels Oats
m L oard great cereal, promise LII
Ivy bushels for man and horse
d. % Per cent more than last year
mn, uI mere figures like these are in
q ~ 5enensible. Few of us can grasT
3 en,; uea OF million or have any con
1 f t5o. OF what a million is, let alone
ouSand millions. You might e
IN 9aulng figures till Eightfall anf
he v you would have little grasp o.
ss@slness of the food supply.
ann;u no calamity bowler drab yOul
brg ' at with harl times talk. Sc
am az there is plenty to eat Uncle
tboS aA Keep on doing business anf
our isn't prosperity it's because
-OIAs simply will not have it