Evening star., 1923-09-21
DECLARE FARMERS
{ IN BETTER SHAPE
Experts Predict Huge Re-
turns in Cotton, Potatoes,
Apples and Other Crops.
BH j. c. ROYLE.

Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK. September 21.-Pro-
duce marketing experts. merchants.
credit men and chain store grocers,
representing nearly every part of
the United States, who are now in
inns city, agreed today that the
tpHght of the farmer in the east, the
T~outh and the far west was anything
but alarming. Final returns to agri-
culturists in those sections outside
the exclusive wheat belt, they said,
probably would show not only profits
in hand. but greatly increased buy
ing power
The potato growers of Long Island
We're cited as an example. Last year
at this time they were getting about
20 cents a bushel for their tubers.
Today the prices are around $140 a
buShel in this market. which means
$i.30 TO the farmer. The growers in
New England and Long Island have
Sold enough of their yield to provide
them with the necessary cash for i'm
mediate needs and now are in a posi-
tion 10 hold for higher prices. They
realize that If they had been able TO
hold until this spring, their 1922 crop
would have brought three times as
much il did.
Prosperity and Thirty-cent Cotton.
The magic of 3O-cent cotton has
brought prosperity knocking at near
w every door in the south. The
price of that staple has brought to
farmers all the way from Georgia
, 10 Arizona an added purchasing pow
er estimated conservatively at half
billion dollars This figure statis-
ticians pointed out as based on an
estimated yield of only 100000
bales. This is below the last gov
crnment figures, which were as of
=. august 20. but private reports hith-
! "fto considered most accurate and
reliable show heavy damage from
bad weather and holl weevil dew
astation since the government fig
ures were compiled.
Huge Apple Crop Ready.
The prune carryover. which has
hung like an angry cloud above the
prospects of the growers, has been
cut to less than 15,000,000 pounds by
the sale of the surplus stocks To-
Gated in the east, and the California
Association will name opening prices
on the 1928 bcrop of the boarding
house mainstay next Monday
The tremendous apple crop of the
northwest, far underestimated here
totore. is beginning to come on the
market at prices as high as S150 a
box for Jonathans. In the east the
New York growers have taken a
OF the northwest and have adopted
modern methods of packing and mar
keting. As result they now are
being paid $3.50 per barrel for Green
ings, with the Jonathans about to
start to market next week
Grape Growers Getting Rich.
Grape growers are reaping a rich
harvest in eastern markets. Manu-
featuring districts are taking ship
Sments in carload-lotS and neighbors
Tin the cities more thicl<lN- nOnnIa ad
by the foreign born are combining
TO buy similar quantities. In Cal
ifornla the movement of the 1928 crop
now is in full swing with 500 to 500
cars being shipped daily. Heavy
mildew damage converted what would
have been heavy crop into one less
than normal and good black varie-
ties are bringing SIC to SS5 a ton to
'Vineyardists. The California crop is
estimated at 1,56S,000 tons.
Almond Yield Good.
American aImod growers are reap
ing an advantage because of the
heavy damage done by rain to the
crop Of the Tarragona district in
Spain The Spanish almonds in their
shells were heavily rain stained and
many of the purchasers of the Spanish
variety have made efforts to cancel
their orders. American almonds
have advanced about half cent
pound in consequence, the best grade
being sold to jobbers around 2112
cents. The value of the crop can be
estimated when it is realized that
California alone will produce approx
imately 10000 tons this year.
Flour Mills Rushed.
Even the wheat farmer is not en-
tireiy out of luck, as is shown by the
fact that the flour mills of the north
Pacific coast today were put on
twenty four hour a day schedule.
seven days d week to produce flour
Tor Japan and other oriental custom
orS. The profits from the corn crop
can only be measured by the business
acumen the growers show in market
ing the crop.