Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — PREDICT BIG CROPS [ARTICLE]

PREDICT BIG CROPS

Reports From North, West and) South Indicate Good Year. Soil Conditions Are Excellent and I While Individual Crops May B# r Bmal!*r Than Last Year, They Are Diversified. ‘ ' St. Louis. —Reports on agricultural! indications from all the great pro-1 ducing states of the middle west, the. north, the northwest, the west, the! southwest, the south and the southeast are exceptionally propitious.! Weather conditions have put the soßi into the best of shape and everything! is favorable for large and good crops.! Interpretation of the reports, obtained from authentic and reliable j sources, leads to the conclusion that, while the crops may not be as large, individually, as last year, the produc-; tion will be more diversified and thei 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 la their entirety, the soil conditions ar®|' better than ordinary and the crop prospects are excellent. There is one! locality in the southwest and one ini 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! ago, with better soil conditions. In fact, it would not be surprising if the< grain production should exceed the? 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-* tall trade. The fruit crop has not been damaged much. Most of the reports indicate rather a large and qualitative* fruit crop. The same inference holds! regarding early vegetables. Probably the most significant fe*< tore of the communications is the expansion of faming in southeastern! and southern states. Diversification steadily is becoming a more vital factor in American production. Tpe collective reports seem to indicate largo and diversified crops, with work for: many laborers and the probability of comparatively high prices. They assure a prosperous year tot the fanner, the merchant and tho workman, provided the turns of that seasons are favorable to the crops and normal weather promises favorably conditions.