Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — Page 3

21 BILLION IS VALUE OF U. S. CROPS THIS YEAR

Nearly 1,000,000,000 Bushels More Grain Was Raised *' Than in 1916. CORN LEADS ALL THE REST \ aMaMaMMataHMMiaßa* :■ 'Production of Grain and Other Farm Products Far Exceeds Any Other •Year In History of CountryWeather Ruins Flax. Washington. —, Farmers contributed approximately $21,000,000,000 to tb» wealth of the nation this year In the production of grain and other farm products, far exceeding any other year In the history of the country. Of this immense total the corn crop leads with an estimated value of $4,053,672,000. The oats crop is valued at $1,061,427,000; wheat at $848,372,000, and potatoes at $543,865,000'. ' Final report on the crops has just been issued by the department of agriculture, and it showed that with the exception of wheat the leading grains established records in production. A big wheat area was planted, but severe winter killing cut down the crop heavily. Cotton was caught by an early frost and suffered a sensational loss of approximately 1,000,000 bales from early estimates. A late season and early frosts hurt the corn crop, but more In point of quality than quantity, and there is more soft corn in the country this year than ever before. 1,000,000,000 Bushels in Excess. Nearly 1,000,000,000 bushels more grain was raised than in 1916. The final estimate shows a total production of 5,666,728,000 bushels of the five leading grains. This ' compares with 4,686,253,000 bushels last year, and is clbse to the record aggregate production in 1915.

The .total wheat yield is given as .650,828,000 bushels, compared with 636,318,000 bushels last year, and 806,861,000 bushels, the 1911-15 average. - Corn production is estimated at 3,159,494,000 bushels, about 31,000,000 bushels under the preliminary figure and compared with 2,566,927,000 bushels raised in 1916. The five-year average was 2,754,164,000 bushels and the previous bumper crop in "1912 was 8,124,746,000 bushels. * The yield of. oats was also a record one and is given as 1,587,286,000 bushels, compared with 1,251,837,000 bushels last year. The five-year average was 1,230,499,000 bushels. Production of rye is placed at 60,145,000 bushels, against 48,862,000 - bushels last -year and five-year average of 41,899,000 bushels. The barley crop is finally estimated at 208,975,000 bushels, against 182,309,000 bushels last year. The bumper potato crop Is maintained In the final report; in fact the figure of 442,336,000 bushels Is a little In excess of the preliminary estimate and compares with 286,953,000 bushels last year. Weather Ruins Flax.

Unfavorable weather conditions ruined the flax crop and the yield Is estimated at only 8,473,000 bushels, against 14,296,000 bushels last year. Production of hay-was 70,528,000 tons of tame apd 15,402,000 tons of wild, compared with 91,192,000 tons and 19,800,000 tons respectively last year. The rice crop totaled 36,278,000 bushels, against 41,982,000 bushels last year. Buckwheat production was 17,460,000 bushels, compared with 11,840,000 bushels ip 1916. The kaffir corn crop was 75,866,000 bushels,.' against 50,340,000 bushels last year. Following shows area, yield per acre and prbduction in bushels of the leading crops: Yield • ' per Area. acre. Production. Winter wheat.... 27,430,000 15.2 418,070,000 Spring wheat 18,611.000 12.6 232,758,000 Corn .......419,765,000 26.4 3,159,494,000 Oats 43,572,000 36.4 1,687,286,000 Rye 4,102,000 14.7 60,145.000 Barley 8,835,000 23.7 208,975,000 Kaffir corn 5,153,000 14.7 76,866,000 Potatoes ...' 4,490,000 100.8 442,336,000 Sweet potatoes... 963,000 91.4 87,141,000 Hay. tame - 63,616,000 1.49 *79,528,000 Hay Wild 16,472,000 .94 *16,402,000 Flaxseed 1,809,000 4.7 8,473,000 ♦Tons. * Cotton production this year is estimated at 10,949,000 Equivalent 500-

AMERICAN BABIES ARE IN NEED OF MILK

Without It Growth Ceases and Health Is Impaired. United States Children's Bureau Sees Danger in Situation Caused by High Prices. Washington.—The news that many American babies are now going without milk because of its high price is a matter of grave alarm to the United States children’s bureau. ' “Milk is one food that all young children must have if they are to be strong and healthy.” the bureau warns. "Whole milk is rich in the elements without which the child’s growth ceases and.his health is Impaired; indeed, there is no fdbd which can supply as well the needs of the growing child. There is no substitute for

pound bales. Tobacco yield Is given as 1,196,451,000 pounds; sugar beets, 6,237,000 tons; beans, 15,701,000 pounds; onions, 13,544,000 bushels, and cabbage, 502,700 tons. The apple crop was 58.203,000 barrels ; peaches, 45,066 f 000 barrels; pears, 13,281,000 bushels; cranberries, 245,000' barrels, and oranges, 12,832,000 boxes.

Midget a Mother.

Savannah, Ga.—Mrs. Estls, a midget,* weighing only 30 pounds, is the. mother of a six-pound baby boy. A Cesarian operation was performed. Both mother and child will live. The father is six feet tall and weighs 180 pounds.

COMFORT IN NATIONAL ARMY BARRACKS

The National army’s "single men In barracks” don’t find wintry days and nights unpleasant so long as they have letters from home, newspapers and music.

ROY GOT HIS DESIRED RAISIN COOKIES

Naval Paymaster Helps Out Grandmother In Distress. -~~ - , ■ • She Stole Away From Home to Take Boy Goodies and Was Barred by the Guard. • Great Lakes, Hl.—One morning an old-fashioned grandmother from Chicago carefully climbed off a train at Great Lakes. She might have stepped from the daguerrotype pictorial page of an old magazine. A black bonnet crowded her silver hair and was tied with black ribbons under her chin. She gripped a large paper bag. The guard stopped her. ' "You can’t come In today,” he told her. “Wednesday is visitors’ day.” Her eyes filled with tears. “But Boy Is going to sea today,” she said. “I came to give Roy his cookies. I had to run away from home to get here. My daughter won’t let me go out of the house much. She thinks I am too old.” , > She took a letter from a handbag. Its was from Roy arid it read in part: “Grandmother: I leave for sea on Friday and all that I lack to make me happy is some of your raisin cookies. The food here is good, but I had to leave without* again tasting the cookies that I loved so much.” “I baked cookies for that boy since he was big enough to eat them, and he always had my cookies until he enlisted,” she resumed. “His mother is dead. He is In Camp Ross. I must see him before he goes away.” The guard was iron. Paymaster J. D. Doyle Is a busy man: But Paymaster Doyle was not tori busy to stop and hear her story. He Is not a young man and his hair Is gray, but he likes raisin cookies and has a heart as big as the administration building.

milk In the diet of babies and young children.” Undernourishment, especially in childhood, is the basis of many evils. Sometimes when -the brain cells are starved it results in feeblemindedit is conducive to tuberculosis, to weak muscles and weak character. It is the leading cause of inefficiency. Occasionally the absence of milk Is due to ignorance—the family fails to realize its Importance in the infant’s diet Usually the family simply can’t afford it Wages are higher, but the price of foodstuffs manage to keep a little ahead of them. Few workmen, even earning a comparatively high wage, can afford to pay $7 a month for milk for four children. Yet $9 would buy only a pint of milk a day for each of thfese children. Under these Circumstances child welfare workers are hoping that the government Itself will step in and see

the evening refubt.ioan. BENSSEIABB. IND.

TRIED TO SPUR HIS AUTO

Cowpuncher Could Not Get Used to Kicking Forward to Make , ■ Car Go. < Portland, Ore.— Rawley Meecham, the buckaroo of Roaring Springs, can now make his flivver get up and gls wn well as any sagebrush shover l«j these parts. Rawley used to head a jerky course ancT stall on every grade. The trouble was he couldn’t get used to kicking forward to make the critter go, and wherever he wanted speed he always kicked back as he did when he rode thri piebald cayuse. He just would try to dig in bis spurs. ■ The ingenuity of Slim Crowley, -who lately turned the Skullspftng Spddlerjj into the Palace Garage, solved the problem. Slim fixed up an auxiliary accelerator just under the front seat. When Rawley kicks back now she sure goes. x i

He heard her story, heard that her daughter would not let her bake the cookies, heard how she had waited until . the daughter had gone shopping and then mixed the butter_and done the goodies to a perfect,brown. This morning she had stolen away and come to the station. He helped her Into his car and whisked her to Camp Ross. He found Roy for her and saw her weep for joy on Roy’s blue jacketed shoulder. He ate one of the cookies. Grandmother and grandson visited and said good-by. Mr. Doyle took her back to. the depot, helped her on a Chicago train, and returned to his neglected work. He was tickled as a kid. “Jove, she loved that boy,” he said as he smacked his lips.

SAFETY PIN BRINGS IN $775

Auto Hits Man, Causing Him to Swallow Fastener —Operation Necessary to Remove It. New York. —Mrs. Ann Kelly of Elmhurst, proprietor of a trucking business in Brooltlyn and Long Island City, must pay Joseph .O’Laughlin $775 because O’Laughlin swallowed a safety pip, O’Laughlin was struck by an automobile truck owned by Mrs. Kelly and operated by John Mackey. He had just come from a barber shop and was adjusting the collar of his woolen shirt! The safety pin was in his mouth when the automobile struck him, and the force of the collision caused the man to swallow the pin. An operation was necessary for its reriioval.

Ancient Postcard Returned.

Sioux City, la.—A postcard held for more than twenty-seven years at the Cascade (Mont.) post office has* been returned to Sioux City, marked unclaimed. The company that sent it, a pioneer packing concern here, has been out of existence two decades.

that American babies and children receive the proper amount of milk. American men are leaving by the thousands to fight and protect their women and children, but of what avail is it if in the meantime the children are allowed to starve at home?-

Metal Coffins In Junk.

Grass Valley, Cal. —A stack of old metal coffins that have not seen the light of day for many years adorn a vacant lot adjoining the business portion of the city that' is used as a junk yard. These gruesome specters lying about on the ground have been the cause.of a great deal of interest One of these is a bronze affair that is worth several times as much for junk now as It cost when new 80-years ago.

Decks German Carp With Flag.

<Bioux City, la. —When the patriotism of Chris Roumeliote, a Greek restaurateur here, was questioned because of his window display of German carp, Chris, who is a veteran of Balkan, wars, wrapped a small American flag around each fish. The apparent advertising value of his window display was Immediately doubled.

ARE THOUGHT-POOR

Sunday School Times Points Out - to Mankind the Peril of ’ Overthinking. As we have known farmers to become what is called “land-poor through acquiring more land than they can ever work, so there are people who are “thought-poor” through excessive thinking. Thought plays so important a part in life, and so many experience such difficulty In thinking* that lt seems impossible there should ever be such a thing as overthought. But there is; and it keeps more than a few. souls from the vitality and progress which ought to be theira. They think every .subject nearly to death. Horace Bushnell in his early life found that thought alone would never let him into the secret of the Christian life, and it took so much courage for him to say what he did that he found he had to think himself out of his overthlnklng. The intellectual power may be so exaggerated that at last it falls of its office. " -

In the first place, we think too long over many matters. The time comes when we ought to stop and betake ourselves to decision. Or we go on refining about" something long after we have reached the main point, eo that we weaken the force of it. Poor Kind of Thinking. A pastor in one of our great churches had had on his mind for some time A banker who attended his church but had never connected himself with any. He had overthought the case of that banker. A hundred times he had tried to think up some way of reaching him. But one day last autumn he threw away his thinking and went straight to the bank and to the man’s desk. He did not know at all what he would say to him, but having gotten there he told-him without elaboration just what he bad come for. He told him - that he wanted him to come out and make a profession of faith in Christ. That was blunt enough. But feeling that so important a matter needed a great deal of preparation, the banker said to the minister that he had been thinking of that subject for a great many years, and his tone implied that he would probably go on doing it a good,many more years. “Well,” said the minister, “don’t you think that Is a pretty poor kind of thinking which can go on for years and never get anywhere nearer a conclusion?”

The banker smiled and said he thought that was a good point. It had been pretty poor thinking. It was not the kind that had led to his success in business. And with that he cut short his thinking and let action do the rest. - At the meeting of the elders who were to receive him into the church he was asked why he took this step, and he replied that the pastor had asked him why he did not take it, and that he had said he had been thinking of it for years, but the pastor told him that was pretty poor thinking and he thought so too. Therefore he asked to be received into the church. He was hearty and happy all tha- days of his too brief membership, for it proved that he had no more years in which to think the matter over. year was his last.

Pride Involved. 7 There is no point In our whole make-up where pride is more involved than in the matter of our thoughts. Perhaps that was what the prophet meant when he said, “Let the unrighteous man forsake his thoughts.” What thoughts? All kinds of prepossessions about what God can do, all staggering at the promises through unbelief, too much familiarity with what we call “human probabilities,” and all those philosophies generated in our own brains and from off our own levels as to what life can become. The logic of our own unaided thoughts tends generally in the direction of limitation and littleness. We make some scheme of what will be feasible or best, and then when It is all tightly framed we ask God to carry it out. Forsaking such thoughts Is hard business. God’s great winds can hardly blow into these tight-shut plans of ours. How is overthought and anxious care to be remedied? There is just one way, and that is by taking God’s thoughts. The Psalmist said, “In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.” You can see the man with his mind going rourid and round but unable to think anything out, and still imposing upon his mincT a burden to which it is unequal. And then when he could make nothing of.'it all there came In upon him energies of another kind and a higher order, what he calls God’s comforts, influences which come off from higher levels than his own disturbed mind. They cooled him in his fever, they cleared his view, they brightened his outlook, cleansed his heart and invigorated his will, and seemed like a sheer gift from God. It has been well said that God’s thoughts are the only cure for care.

Danger of Half Truths.

Not the violent contest between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend only to one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth Itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.— John Stuart Mill.

Happiness.

Happiness is where it is found and seldom where it is sought.—Selected

AGRICULTURE THE MAINSTAY OF THE NATION

The United States and Canada Have a Great Responsibility. This is the day when the farmer has his Innings. The time was when he was dubbed the “farmer,” the “mossback," and in a tone that could nevef have been called derisive, but still there was in it the Inflection that he was occupying an Inferior position. The stiff upper lip that the farmer carried, warded off any approach-that his occupation was a degrading one. His hour arrived, though, and for some years past he has been looked up to as occupying a high position. Agriculture, by a natural trend of economic Conditions,' stands out today In strong relief, as the leader in the world’s pursuits. Never in -the nation’s history have the eyes of the world been so universally focused on the farm. The fanner is the man of importance ; the manufacturer of its most necessary product, and he now enjoys the dual satisfaction of reaping a maximum of profit, as a result of his operations, while he also becomes'a strong factor In molding the world’s destinies, Manufacturers, business men, professional men and bankers realize the Importance of agriculture, and gladly acknowledge It as the twin sister to commerce. In commercial, financial and political crisis, the tiller of the soil takes the most, important place. Maximum prices, the highest in many decades, show the world’s recognition of the necessary requirement for more farm stuffs. The time was coming when this would have been brought about automatically, but war time conditions urged it forward, while the farmer was able to secure land at reasonable prices. Throughout several of the Western states this condition exists, as also In Western Canada. Never has such a condition been known in commercial life. It is truly" an opportunity of a lifetime. Large and small manufacturing concerns and practically every other line of business have been limited in their profits to the point of almost heroic sacrifice, while it is possible today to reap dividends in farming unequaled in afiy other line.

Thirty, and as high as fifty bushels of wheat per acre at $2.20 per bushel and all other farm produce on a similar basis, grown and produced on land available at from sls to S4O per acre, represents a return of profit despite higher cost of labor and machinery, that, €n many cases runs even higher than 100% of an annual return on the amount invested. Such is the present day condition in Western Canada. How long it will last, no one can foretell. Prices for farm produce will likely remain high tor many years. Certainly, the low prices of past years will not come again in this generation. The lands referred to, are low in prjee at present, but they will certainly increase to their naturally productive value as soon as the demand for them necessitates this increase, and this day is not far distant This demand is growing dally; the farmer now on the ground is adding to his holdings while prices are low; the agriculturist on high priced lands is realizing that he is not getting all the profit that his neighbor in Western Canada is securing; the tenant farmer is seeking a home of his own, which he can buy on what he was paying out for rent and many are forsaking the crowded cities to grasp these unprecedented opportunities. The tenant farmer, and the owner of high priced land, is now awakening to the realization that he is not getting the return for his labor and investment that it is possible to secure in Western Canada. Thousands are making trips of inspection to personally investigate conditions and to acquaint themselves with the broadening benefits derived by visiting Western Canada. Such trips awaken in a progressive man that natural desire to do bigger things, to accomplish as much as his neighbor, and frequently result in convincing and satisfying him that God’s most fertile outdoors, with a big supply of nature’s best climatic and health-giving conditions Iles in Western Canada.

The days of pioneering are over; the seeker after a new home travels through all parts of the country on the same, good railway trains as he has been accustomed to at home, but on which he has been accorded a specialrailway rate of about one cent a taile.' He finds good roads for automobiling and other traffic; rural telephone lines owned by the provincial governments; rural schools and churches situated conveniently to all; well appointed and homelike buildings, and everywhere an indication of general prosperity; cities and towns with all modern improvements, and what is the most convincing factor in his decision, a satisfied and prosperous people, with a whole hearted welcome to that country of a larger life and greater opportunities. To Western Canada belongs the distinguished honor of being the holder of all world's championships in wheat and oats for both quality and quantity. For many years in succession Western Canada has proven her cjplm for supremacy in the most keenly contested National exhibitions and to her is credited the largest wheat and oat yields America has known The natural conditions .peculiar to Western Canada and so adaptable to grain growing has heen an insurmountable barrier for her competitors to overcome. In the last

few years the yields of wheat * oats per acre have surprised the agricultural world. As much as sixty bushels of wheat per acre has been grown on some farm#, while others have furnished affidavits showing over fifty bushels of wheat per acre, and oats as high as one hundred and twentxbusteels per acre. One reputabljSnirmer makes affidavit to a erop return of over fifty-four thousand bushels of wheat from a thousand acres. While this is rather the exception than the rule, these yields serve to illustrate the fertility of the soil and the possibilities of the country, when good farming • methods are adopted. Western Canada can surely lay undisputed claim to being “The World’s natural bread basket.”—Advertisement

Newfoundland’s Sailing Fleet

IxNsses of sailing vesels in the Newfoundland trade through storms, German raiders and submarines since the war started have been more than made up by building within the colony and purchases abroad, observes a correspondent. The Newfoundland sailing fleet now numbers 125 vessels, and 17 more are on the sticks, the total of 142 making the largest locally owned fleet in u generation. This is exclusive of boats used only In the island trade. The fleet, made up of schooners ranging from 100 to 400 tons, has a capacity which will enable the colony to take to foreign markets In Newfoundland bottoms the entire catch of cod in Island waters, estimated at about 1,300,000 quintals or 168,000,000 pounds,

BOSCHEE’S GERMAN SYRUP Why use ordinary cough remedies, when Boschee’s German Syrup has been used so successfully for fifty-one years in all parts of the United States for coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the throat, especially lung troubles. lit gives the patient a good night’s rest, free from coughing, with easy expectoration in the morning, gives nature a chance to soothe the Inflamed parts, throw off the disease, helping the patient to regain his health. Sold in all civilized countries, 80 and 90 cent bottles.—Adv.

River of Liberty Pennies.

A new dignity is thrust upon the little bronze coin—useful chiefly hitherto as a means of furnishing„ us with the world’s intelligence. Now the penny takes the front line as a fighter for freedom. Soldiers and sailors will be clothed and armed and fed by them; enemy trenches will be shattered by them; the flag will be carried forward on their current to speedier and greater victory. Why so mean as to grtedge them a grouch at tbe inconvenience 1 Fit emblem of democracy, let there be reverence and gladness in their giving, whether from the hand of a little child or the coin pocket of a millionaire. Let us be a nation of cheerful taxpayers. All hall the Liberty pennies.—Chicago Evening Post. j

Important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOBIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the S/fb* Signature In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria

English Women in-France.

Hundreds of women In the British army auxiliary corps are working in France, some In thp bases and others in the country quarter* near base towns, states the San Francisco Argonaut. For ordinary clerical work 28s. to 275. a week is paid; for superior and shorthand typists, 28s. to 82c., with overtime paid 7d. to 9d. an hour. A bonus of five f>ounds is paid for 12 months’ service. Uniforms, khaki coatfrock, with stockings and shoes, are provided free. The maximum for board and lodging is 14s. a week.

The Quinine That Does Not Meet Head

Because of Its tonic snd laxative effect, Laxative Bromo Quinine can be taken by anyone wltbost causing nervousness or ringing in the head.„ There Is only one “Bromo Quinine.” K. W. GBOVJFM signature is on box. 30c.

Clothes and Mental Attitude.

Clothes do help the mental attitude , more than many realize. Let us not fall to take advantage of this means of keeping ourselves well balanced, of keeping emotions under control, now and all through the time that our men are fighting so valiantly, so surely, for our safety and the safety of those who shall come after us.—Exchange.

Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There hi only one way to cure Catarrhal Dearness, and that is by a constitutional remedy. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Sets through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an Inflamed condition of the, mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. .When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and When it IS entirely closed. Deafness is the result Unless the inflammation can be re- . duced and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing may be destroyea forever. Many cases <rf caused by Catarrh, which ta an Inflamed condition of the Mucous Surfaces. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be* cured by HALL'S CATARRH All Druggists ?se. Circulars free. F. J. Cheney A Co. Toledo. Ohio. ; .

First Chinese Woman Voter.

The first Chinese woman .to cast her vote in the San Francisco primaries was Mrs, Ton Klng-chong. wife of the first member of the Chinese commqnl- / ties in the United States sent to the Chinese parliament.

Very Telling.

Daisy—She’s an awful gossip. She tells everything she hears. Pansy—She tells more than that.

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