The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-12
WAR IS SENDING
PRICES SKYWARD
BRADSTREET REPORT AN UP
WARD TENDENCY IN ALL THE
NEcESSARIES OF LIFE
FARMERS WILL MAKE MONEY THIS YEA|
Nationwide Movement to Plant Al
Available Waste Land to Garden
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in trade circles, the latter character.
istic heavily outweighing the former,
and while it is too early to accurately
gauge the full effects upon business OF
the country's passing from peace to
war, initial indications suggest that
the transition is being accomplished
with a minimum of unsettlement. Here
and there credits have been restricted,
ana in a few instances buying for dis
tant delivery has been curtailed, but
looming high above such manifesto
tions is the fact that business already
booked is heavy, that governmental
buying has stimulated numerous lines,
that prices, particularly of foods and
cotton, have scared, and that industries
essential to wal are being modified
to TAX care of the country's needs. In
deed, the textile industry has I'M
mediately shown influences of the war
crisis, and in the iron and steel indus
try quotations keep on advancing, while
mill interests evince a strong desire to
discourage new buying pending clearer
views as to the governments needs.
Evidence of the size of the govern
ment's wants are not easily weighed,
but once price concessions are arrang-
ed a sharp FLIP to demand is certain,
and in any event speeding up injunc-
tons have been laid on the %shipyards
of the country. Ordinary trade has
been marked by Easter requirements,
which have been held down to some
extent by bad weather, but in the larg-
er lines interest is swinging from i'm
mediate needs to distant wants. In
dustry is active, with numerous
branches sold far ahead, and despite
improvement in the car situation, de-
l~iveries of raw materials are still back
ward.
Tobacco, confectionery and toys,
bituminous coal, painters supplies and
glass are active, but reports regarding
the paper, jewelry, wine, beer and
liquor trades indicate more or less
quiet. Crop news respecting winter
wheat is unfavorable, but spring SOW
ings of wheat and other foodstuffs will
be on an enormous scale.
The Crop Situation and outlook
The crop season had a rather late,
and in some sections, a poor start. 1t
was too dry in the winter-wheat belt,
too wet and cool in the southeast, and
snow went off slowly in the northwest.
The weeks developments have, how
ever, been in the direction of improve
ment, in that while moisture was de-
ficient in the western half of the wheat
belt, west of the Missouri river, the
eastern half has had heavy, soaking
rains. A great deal of winter wheat is
being plowed up in Kansas and Ne
braska. In Missouri, Oklahoma, Ohio
and Michigan the crop is in better
shape than a year ago.
Large corn and oats areas are indi-
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to prosper. The east and southeast
has had all the rain needed, and now
good planting and growing weather is
much to be desired.
Price and other conditions point to
large planting of all crops everywhere,
but weather and seed conditions are
not altogether favorable. A country
wide movement for house gardens and
for the planting of all waste places
near cities is revealed in dispatches to
Bradstreet's.
Commodities Higher
War has held the center of the stage
this week, and war prices have ruled
in all leading markets, new high levels
being reached in most food commodi-
ties. Wal talk, poor crop reports and
better export buying were influential
in wheat, which is Up. Wheat crossed
50 on Wednesday for May and reached
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