Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1911 — PREDICT Big CROPS [ARTICLE]

PREDICT Big CROPS

Reports From North, West and) South Indicate Good Year. Soli Conditions Are Excellent and I While Individual Crops May Ba • Smaller Than Last Year, They Are Diversified. St. Louis. —Reports on agricultural indications from all the great producing states of the middle west, tha north, the northwest, the west, the southwest, the south and the southeast are exceptionally propitious. Weather conditions have put the soil into the best of shape and everything is favorable for large and good crops.; Interpretation of the reports, obtained from authentic and reliable; sources, leads to the conclusion that, while the crops may not be as large, individually, as last year, the production will be more diversified and the. total output will be enormous. Should this understanding of the reports materialise, the tendency would be toward comparatively high prices. At the same time the volume! of the general agricultural production should afford employment to a vast army of laborers and cause such a distribution of the revenue as to vitalize trade. Taking the producing territories In their entirety, the soil conditions are better than ordinary and the crop prospects are excellent. There is one locality in the southwest and one in the northwest which declare weather and soil conditions to be discouraging! and Montana fears that a too rapid thawing of the mountain snows might result in another dry season. Other-* wise the reports are more than gratifying. All the crops, without exception, are* said to be at least as good as a year l ago, with better soil conditions. In fact, it would not be surprising if the. grain production should exceed that forecast, in which case prices would:' not be so high. But the communications appear to show at present that while Individual crops will not be extraordinary, the total production will be enormous. In any event, the farmers look forward to a very prosperous year, and this, of course, means heavy wholesale and re- 1 tail trade. The fruit crop has not been damaged much. Most of the reports Indicate rather a large and qualitative! fruit crop. The same inference hold* regarding early vegetables. Probably the most significant feature of the communications is the expansion of fanning In southeastern! and southern states. Diversification steadily is becoming a more vital fkotor in American production. The collective reports seem to indicate large and diversified crops, with work son many laborers and the probability of comparatively high prices. They assure a prosperous year to the farmer, the merchant and that workman, provided the tarns of that seasons are favorable to the crope*andf normal weather promises favorablel conditions. '