Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1912 — HAPPY FARMERS [ARTICLE]

HAPPY FARMERS

They Have Every Cause for Joy on the Next Thanksgiving Day. From the Detroit Free Press, Sept. 12, 1912. - A marvelously fortunate year Is this of 1912 for this land of ours. The government crop report yesterday renews once more the proof that all things are uniting for the welfare of Americans. It is an amazing showing, 300,000,000 bushels of spring wheat being reported as In sight, where last year the yield was only 190,000,000 bushels, and the year before 200,000,000. Added to the winter wheat, which in spite of the soft wheat losses In our own section of the country, will still pass the 1911 mark, the total yield of Jthlß grain will run well above 700,000,000 bushels, and if private advices are reliable, even above 800,000,000 bushels. We have had but two years In the past when the 700,000,000 mark was passed, 1906 and 1901, and the outlook is that the return per bushel for the harvest now available will exceed that of either of these. Nor is wheat the only crop that is practically assured of reaching record figures. Com, potatoes, barley, rye and some others are already in the class of bumper yields. The indications amount to assurance that they will all exceed any previous aggregate. While the American fields are teeming with their produce across the ocean is heard the cry of distress. Cold weather and prolonged rainfall have played havoc there. The land is sodden and unfruitful. What crops have grown are drowning in flood. The American farmer, with his barns bulging with the yield of his acres, will get big prices for his big stock of food supplies. A bountiful harvest and a strong demand should make the farmer of this country a happy man on Thanksgiving day.