The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-09-25

today by the postoffice department
and the Florida West Indies AirWays
Co, Inc. The service starts Oct. 18th.
Montana, Wyoming. and the two Da-
kotas which suffered so severely
year ago because of fierce, prolonged
drouth. Their condition colors are
different now and much more to their
liking. In Wyoming and California
the oil business is good and it varies
from fair to good throughout the en-
tire country
Prices are high. production still
keeps up and there is a worldwide
demand which seems difficult to salts
~. The only fly in the ointment is the
absence of wild eating because Of
contraction of credit by the banks
with consequent slump in the demand
for those commodities and supplies
which this form of development and
adventure demands. This is felt par
ticulaIly in Texas. where wild eating
was the most engaging of pursuits,
with all sorts of possibilities in both
directions.
Still further eastward across the
towering Rockies. conditions in the
great plains states are about evenly
divided between fair and good. In the
northwestern states, spring wheat did
not fulfil its early promise because of
black rust and drouth here and there.
But it Is still a good yield save in
some sections. And in general there
was an abundant harvest and plenty
of food for both man and beast. There
will be more fax than last year, more
sugar beets, large crops of corn, and
much more hay and forage. There
will be also more Kaffir corn. more al
falfa, more Sudan grass. All these
things should help to solve the live
stock problem by reducing the cost of
production and making it more re-
munerative, even at the lower prevail
ing prices.
6 At this writing, fine prospect for
cotton is clouded and made uncertain
both in Texas and Oklahoma, by too
much precipitation and consequent
damage by boil weevil. This same
condition prevails all across the south
ern portion Of the cotton belt to the
Atlantic ocean. The amount of the
final cotton yield depends much upon
the weather in the next three weeks.
Only out in Arizona and California is
there no question of yield consider
ably larger than last year. Inciden-
tally, New Mexico is getting into cot
ton raising by irrigation. Yet when
all the sum Of possible disaster by too
much rain and by early frost has
been summed up there seems the
strong likelihood of a crop which viii
be equal to all our needs with a lib
eral amount left for export.
ALSO in the great plains states the
car shortage evil is far-reaching and
starts in first with the fact that all
the elevators are full Of grain and
cannot get any more The next ster
is that they cannot get any more
cars to ship this grain. Farmers with
their wheat march up the hill. like the
king of France, to the next railroad
town, and then march down again be-
cause there is no place for their
wheat. So they store it the best they
can on the farm, and often have mt
place to put it. And then If they have
to meet obligations they sell then
wheat for what they can get for it
And constant lower market pre-
walls.
There was not much early fruit
from Kansas southwark because Of
1.-THE frost and freezes in the late
spring But there are a good many
apples and lots of watermelons. Rails.
ing watermelons for living is not
strictly an horticultural pursuit, but
rather playing tag with fate whc
often uses loaded dice in the sharp
Icold, wet weather that makes ths
fruit absolutely unstable. The wide
and startling range of prices IN these
Emelons is often due to equally wide
ranges in temperatures. For this lus
lcious fruit commands a premium OF
hot days and cannot be given ava.
with a pound Of tea when the temper
ature drops.
Coal mining IN the great plains
states is In its usual condition of few
Idays (of work. and full of troubles
IN some localities 1t is better wher'
mines have resumed operations. Bu
too often there is the wearisome stor.
Iof constant and apparently unneces
lsary strikes. Meanwhile, iron mining
in Michigan and Wisconsin is wei
lemployed. The central west, betweel
the Ohio river and the Great Lakes
1.-THE Mississippi river and the ALE
ghenies, is in most excellent shape o.
the whole. The crops are very goo
with the usual local exceptions. Their
lis plenty of fruit and an abundanc
of garden truck
Industrial life is very busy, say
THAT a cloud has appeared on the an