The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-10
Food Crops Continue to
 Increase in Large Bulk

when the rainy season gave place to ideal growing weather. The gain in most crops last month was greater than in any previous month. In the late spring, corn was all but ruined by the floods. Most of it had to be replanted. As late as June the prospects were gloomy, but in July the turn came, and growing conditions began to take strides.
 The aricultural department now makes splendid reports of nearly all food crops. The forecast for corn is 3,131 100000 bushels 6,00O000 bush els more than the highest record of 1912.
 The cduntry's wheat production totals 77O,Oo0,O0o bushels, which lacks about 3O0,Ooo,OOO bushes of the phe- nomenal production of 1915, but an enormous yield, nevertheless.
 The oat crop has yielded this year 900 00bushelsETAOINSHRDLUNUNU 1,442,00o,Ooo bushels; barley, 195.- o00,000 bushels. Irish potatoes have reached the mark of 413,OOO ,OOO bushels, and sweet potatoes 102, ,OoO.- 900 bushels. The department makes favorable forecasts for other crops. especially sugar beets, apples and peanuts.
 The south has been we'll favored. Alabama's corn crop is estimated at 66,342,000 bushels; Georgia's 69.- 220,0O0 bushels; Tennessee's 87.124- GOO bushels, and Mississippi's at 6e.- 970,000 bushels.
 If frost holds off two months longer, an appreciable bulk will be added to corn. This will be a hap py year indeed for the farmer.
 avery now and then the whirligig of politics puts such a person as the Hon. Thomas E. Watson of Georgia in the United States Senate. Condolences to Georgia.
 After being befogged for two days, the Imperator docked at her pier in New York. Senator Harding has been befogged for months and the chances are he never will dock.
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 While the Irish hunger strikers may or may not deserve sympathy, has any, body tear to shed for the widows and children of policemen murdered by the Sim Fein
 The propaganda in Europe to restore the prestige of the former crown prince of Germany looks like a thankless task. You can't restore something that has never existed.
 Uncle Joe" Cannon will pass out of public life about the time the powder puff invades Congress. Jeannette Ran din didn't really count.
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 Turning his attention to Thanksgiv- ing, with Christmas in the background, all the average citizen can see is just another flock of bills
 One way to give the people who live in New York little more elbow room Is to transfer the center of the girl show industry to Chicago or St. Louis.
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 Although Jimmy Cox is not as pro- life as the late T. R. in coining po- htical terms. "underhold" will probably outlive the presidential election.
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 The recent quake" in Italy far sur passed in destructiveness the mild and almost beneficent earthquakes of Los Angeles.
 The French have taken Aintab. in Asia Minor. Still, this may mean noth- ing to the inhabitants of Keokuk. Iowa
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 LaFollettes loss of prestige in Wis consin is an encouraging sign. Watch the Berlin papers.
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 Perhaps Lenine and Trotzky will con- duct their winter campaign against Po- land around stove in Moscow.
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 Governor Cox says we are just get ting into the campaign. Gosh! The preliminaries were exciting enough. Another grand opera season is about to open without a logical successor to Caruso having been found