Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1918 — OUR SPLENDID CROP PROSPECTS [ARTICLE]

OUR SPLENDID CROP PROSPECTS

In speaking of the anticipated crop yields in this country for the present season, the Indianapolis News says: The government’s July crop forecast will not afford much encouragement for Germany. The corn harvest is estimated at 3,160,000,000 bushels, the largest on record. More barley; rye, sweet potatoes and rice will probably be produced than in any previous year in the history of the count'y, and with good growing conditions th? bats, white [iotatoes and tobacco harvests should be as great. A decline of 40,000,000 bushels from the June wheat estimate. is ,-iiown, hut tiie forecast, 891,000,000 bushels, is much above the five-year average. Crop estimates are not crop harvests, of course, and the situation ■nay be changed in a month, but the figures give hope and- ©onfldence. (.cimany would be in an entirely different position v ere sued crop yields in in the Teutonic empires. \\e have now gone through a year of war in which we have sent 1,000,000 men from industrial and agricultural production to -Europe and no person has yet suffered from hunger as a result of fudiF~ f’Jiorta'ge. r ; - ’

Nor with proper economy should there be such suffering no matter how long the va. lasts. Th? pros poets of buinpci crops shot’id rot serve to e ’'bu.ax.e waste, dm to provide an tar -ty f.)" ’ star ing o' a s ir, Ins l gainst th'.) lean years that i.iay tune. As long ns the war lasts we shall probably fieed to restrict the consumption of food. There will be no hunger if our resources are wisely conserved.