The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
Food Crops Reach
 Very High Record

7T7HE United States agricultural de- 1 O partment's system of crop report ing is so thoroughly organized as to make its efficiency little short of won- derful. The estimates made early in the fall seldom fail to approximate the final reports.
 Two months ago a S,25o,000 900 bushel corn crop was forecast. This weeks report states it. at 3,191,0S3, 900 bushels. The new high record Irish potato crop reaches approximately 40, 100000 bushels. The country's sweet potato yield is S4,T27,000 bush- els, about 90 per cent of which was produced in the south. The only important crop that showed a decrease this year was wheat; and as the wheat growers have been urged by the government to increase their acreage on an aver age of IS per cent, the 1918 harvest l should be another bumper. The western wheat belt should be good for a billion bushels, weather conditions permitting, and the south can, and probably will. bring it's yield up to 100,O00,0Go bushels. Now is the time to figure" on next years wheat and oats increases. 1 A Chnaman operating a restaurant in 1 Chicago has appealed to local food admin l istration officials to help him find a sub stitute for meat in chop suey. so he can observe "meatlcss Tuesdays" He might have gone ahead and made the substitu- tion himself, without anybody else be- ing the wiser.
  1 Liberty Day parade saw her husband l chatting with fresh young thing" and I lations for nonsupport. Some men are 1 unluclzy like that.
 l Some of our young officers still cling to their swagger sticks. Excused on the ground that they are bit self-conscious 1 and don't know what to do with their hands.
 I Venus of Melos would not hace fash ionabie figure nowadays, but she will continue to have place in art museums l long after 'X-ray sirens" are forgotten. ;; * i; There will be plenty of turkeys for Thanksgiving and it is promised that the price will be reasonable. The ulti- mate consumer is surfeited on promises 1 Judging from some of the current mag l dAlles, NHeH u SueSeSslut HoNchSL cstil | find anything else to write about he goes on q hunt and writes about that |; ]. ss l An Illinois woman who paid $50 for her husband says she's tired of supporting him. Even at s49.s9 he would not have been a bargain.
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 Washington's hope that sanity may pre- vail in Russia goes to prove that our gov ernment is optimistic first, last and all the time.
 l The average jail warden would probably hands than one silly "suff" who refuses to eat.
 l The prohibitionists went over the top in ] Ohio, but the Huns of Kaiser Barlcycorn made a counter thrust and drove them back.
 i It might have been good thing Tor l IsuSSld, tillSi cAi, n SSiiSAeAA 'NSA t'ASAA a rebellion had banned out successfully. .; < .s . New York now has made discredted election prophets to the square yard than any other city in America. H Let us hope Colonel House will not for get his democratic ways while sojournins I with an English duke.
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 Of one thing we may be reasonably sure, The notorious Lenine is no longe" ] in hiding.
 PAPER UNIFORMS FOR GERMANS From the Popular Science Monthly for November.
 The clothing of some German prison CTS recently taken by the British was of such a peculiar appearance that the Englishmen decided to analyze it. The uniforms the officers wore were found to have been made of cloth woven from leather fiber, while the enlisted men wore uniforms made from paper fiber. 1.-The fabrics resemble the regulation