Evening star., 1924-09-29
CORN CROP FAILURE
I AIDS LA TOILETTE
|. S. Figures Disclose Condi'
/ tion Feared by Old Par
/ ties Leaders.
~
" FREDERICK WILLIAM VILE.

6HY FREDERICK WILLIAM VILE.
I MATURE has become an ally of Rob
sert NJ. La Toilette. The corn crop
n. Iowa and other important states
9iri the West and northwest is
/ allure. Official admissions on that
Gore have just been issued by the
i oepartment of Agriculture. They
4 disclose conditions which both Re-
Iublican and Democratic managers
Have been fearing for months. The
Generally anticipated effect is an I'M
dense increase in the La Toilette
/ I,rm vote in States like Iowa, South
4 ,akota, Minnesota. Nebraska and
ifontana. and the driving OF their
.lectoral votes into the Progressive
Y olumn.
Coolidge managers, in particular.
Z ave been hoping that the frost in
he corn belt would be postponed at
I asst until after election day. The
1lletin of Secretary Wallace's Bureau
: Agricultural Economics has ap-
. ilrently blasted those prospects.
,rhe corn crop, especially in the corn
.<lt (the midwesD," it says, lis even
II ore backward for the season than
! was month ago 1t now seems
: certain that much of the
J. op will not mature before killing
I "osts. Growth has been greatly
:. lecked by cool weather and lack of
; -nshine. and a large part of the
s,.op needs from three to eight weeks
~ warm weather to mature grain.
q; large acreage will be cut for
! oder. and silos will be filled to the
nit this season.
: Il Saw Discomfort F'nding.
: Republicans recently were over
: oyed and Democrats correspondents
4 dismayed by the revelation of world
I pnditions which sent up the price
J : American wheat. Both parties,
: .ong with the general public, jumped
-1;he conclusion that the wheat stu
ion more or less blotted out farm
.scontment. and that the normally
epublican Northwest was now safe
: 1r Coolidge and Dawes. Not many
I -ople realize that corn is overwhelm-
I ely the chief food crop in the United
lates In 1922 Cthe last complete
Z ures available) S56.211000 bushels
Z! wheat yielded a market value of
;, 64139. 900. But in the same year
{ e American farmers raised 2,S9O.-
:. 1000 bushels of corn and sold them
F,r $1,000. 2S7 900. The corn crop, in
= her words. was worth more than
ice as much as the wheat crop.
zen with this years poor crop, corn
a ices are high. But if the farmer
: = his corn harvest for fodder, the
Z ice has little real interest for him.
6 nowa-pivotal Iowa, whose Is cleo
ral votes are so essential to the
z i o. P.-is Americas great cornfield.
Z IVA, too is the State with a greater
cid of discontented farmers to the
re than any other State in the
Z 1on. That is why Smith w. Brook
! lrt was elected to the United States
mate in 1922 by 10000 majority
nd why he is considered invincible
lis year.
{ Crop Poor in IOwn.
( THE corn crop has made poor prog
Z SIS in Iowa., says Secretary Wal
) a:ces report in the paragraph con-
& Arning conditions in hiS own State.
( not any of the crop is safe from
{ fost, and the bulk is in the milk
age There has been slight frost
+ Image in the north central part of
,yya- Many counties in eastern
! ,wa show less than 10 per cent of
! le crop dented. The situation is re-
,orted serious"
( These are the reports from other
/. orn belt states:
Z Minnesota-The prospects are that
Z ally a. small part of the crop will
: iature. There has been some frost
{ amage, and the weather has been
3 20 cool. Thirty-five to 40 days are
{ .eeded for maturity.
Z South Dakota-Cool days and
4 lights, with frequent rains, have
3 ept corn green. A considerable por-
.on of the crop is dented. Favorable
feather would produce some grain.
ebraska-The crop has made fair
7rogress, but is very uneven and with
aany barren stocks and undersized