Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1911 — The World’s Granary. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Granary.

Last year the United States produced 75 per cent of the corn of the world, 33 per cent of the oats and 20 per cent of the wheat, and it was done upon 6 per cent of the land.

The average annual production of cereals in this country is about five thousand million bushels. These figures are so stupendous that the aver-, age mind cannot comprehend them. And yet all the corn grown In this country, and there were 3,128,000.000 bushels of it, only about 2 per cent was exported. . K * This shows the wonderful consumptive power of the people of the United States. No nation in the history of the world has had such a record. The prosperity of a country and its standard of civilization are determined by its ability to consume the products of its soil. This is shown, by a comparison between the people of India and the United States, as the former with its nearly 300,000,000 people exports 14.1 per cent of its 360,000,000 bushels of wheat which is only about half of the production in this country. 3 The other wheat growing sections of the world which are backward in the scale of material progress show about the same record as India. The men who handle these immense crops of the United States are to meet In Omaha Oct 9, 10 and 11 next, when the annual convention of the Grain Dealers National Association is to be held. At this convention every phase of the cereal business will be'discussed. How to Increase the yields of the American farms by the scientific breeding of grain; how to add to the supply of the country by irrigation, dry farming and deep ploughing—all these methods will be considered. Our population is rapidly overtaking our production, and it was this fact that recently induced the Washington government to negotiate a commercial traety with Canada. The Grain Dealers National Association is composed of practically all the prominent elevator owners, brokers and commission men in the conn-, try. They are intereotol in the farmed because without the growers qf grain there would be nq grain to handle. ,7;' After a diet of more than twelve hours on bread and water, the prisoners in the ednnty jail at Sullivan who removed three padlocks from cell doors, then attempted a jail delivery by sawing the bars In one of th* windows, have turned aver the locks to Sheriff Wtble. Alfred Jacobson, serving tim* for “blind tigering," admitted that ho sawed the bars.