The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-23
IOWA FARMER
IS PROSPEROUS
Rides to State Fair in High
Priced Auto and Jingles
Money in His
Jeans.
lCORN AND HOG PROFITS
One Hundred Million Dollars Worth
Of Corn In the State Yet to
Be Turned Into
! Cash.
lCORN AND HOG PROFITS

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
DIES MONIES, Iowa. Aug. 23:-
| Money, money everywhere and quite
a bit to spend. That's the status OF
the farmer of Iowa today. With ap-
proximately 4O0, 100000 bushels of
corn expected, the Iowa farmers
spending money will grow still fur.
ther. At the current price Of $1.OS
a bushel the profit for Iowa would
be about s1OO,OoO,0OO There are
however, prospects Of two dollar
corn by October when the crop ma
lures, which of course makes the pin
money run close to the billion mark.
Iowa's wheat crop was fair" and
! with the grain bringing $3.50 bush
ell, Mr.. Farmer is bringing himself
another batch of clear profit. Last
! but not least, comes the hog, and
everybody knows that pork has been
selling for $40 hundred weight on
| the hoof. A recent test On hog feed
| ing at the state college at Ames
showed that hogs are so per cent
profit If not more.
The big profits have not turned
| the Iowa farmers mind. He isn't
| throwing his money away, but he Is
| spending it. Most Of the profits are
going into improvements. Some Of
the iron men to auto dealers for the
latest models of big cars-and the
dealers can't supply them fast enough.
The balance is deposited in banks.
Iowa is still in the lead as an auto
state. There is gasoline wagon
! for every other family. And farmers
families are the "other one" The
| agriculturists are not buying "one
lungers" either. This was evidenced
| at the state fair today when the
crop grower arrived in the biggest
cars on the market. There were
many of the little cars also, but the
children or the hired man brought
; them. Practically every prosperous
| farmer-and there are lots of them
has two cars. a big one and a smaller
one.
Considerable money is being spent
in buying winter wheat seed.
| With the state officials urging a
big winter wheat sowing, the farm
ers are going to increase the acre
! age in this grain.
J Many Of the visitors to the state
| fair are giving the newest tractors
and other farm machines a careful
examination and much Of the clear
money" will be spent In new farm
machinery.
Fodder Shortage Threatened.
| CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Farmers, save
your cornstalks, or face fodder
shortage this winter.
This was the warning sounded here
today to mid-western farmers by j.
B. Lcmson, agricultural expert for the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail-
way. The warning goes for the en-
tire country, Lamson says.
"a hay famine exists and unless
| farmers utilize every piece of corn
stalk for feed there will be a bigger
scarcity of live stock and a conse-
auent big rise in meat values" said
Lawson.
Lamson declared the July hay
crop was short 100000 tons as COM
pared with the production of 100000
| 900 in July, 1916.
1--WE have been having such high
prices for the grain that live stock
has been sacrificed" he said. "The
farmer to make up the deficit, put
in large crops of beans and corn and
sold at high pices. Consequently a
shortage of forage was created.
| alfalfa is now selling in Nebraska
from SIS to $40 ton. Last year it
brought 81.
"a survey just completed shows it
! is impossible to get hay at a reason
able price and the only solution is
to educate the farmers to store the
corn stalks"
| Lamson declares that heretofore
most famers have let the stalks stand
in shocks during the winter months
and burned them UP In the spring.
Lamson left for Omaha, Neb.. today
to confer with county agricultural
agents and officials Of the Burlington
road regarding a campaign to get the
farmer to store forage for the win
ter. State councils of defense, lead
| ing bankers in every locality in the
middle west and state agricultural
officials will be asked to aid in the
| campaign.