Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — FARMER RUSK [ARTICLE]

FARMER RUSK

cultural Department The United State* U Now the Creditor o' the World for'More than •200,000.000 tnro has been submitteil to the President* The report begins with a comparison o the export trade of the past fiscal yea: with that bf former years and emphasizes the fact that’of more than •1.000.0 u.OOO representing the exports of our domestic products of the past year, nearly 80 pe: cent, consisted of agricultural products tints got only making the United Stated the creditor of the world for a surp exceeding tSuO.O* 0,0 !o—the excess of our exports over Imports—but relieving our home markets from » surplus product which would otherwise-have redueed prices to a point below the cost of production Be finds encouragement to the farmer in the fact of the reduction in the proportion of imports. Live ca tle exported In 148.) amounted to 20,».0i0 head, whereas in 1892 wo expoi ted 301,000 at an increase in value averagiiuriß per head. Secretary Rusk explains why our wheat did not realize the big hopes rais d by the

short crops iu the various European countries iu 18j1, by saying that those anticipations of advanced prices failed to take into account the changed conditions now surrounding the produoi.iou and marketing of the world’s wheat crop. “Taking the world throughout, tho fat crops more than equaled the lean crops of 1891, so that there was actually more wheaj. grown in that year than in 1890.’’ Even the exports from Russia, where famine existed in so li rge a section and whelm exports were for a time prohibited, amounted to 105,0K),000 bushels. nearly us much as the averugo of the past, four years, and mare tliaq the aver age of the past ten years. Bo s lys “t,he conditions which have at last overwhelmed cotton growers now confront wheat growers.” lichee the American farmer must reduce the wheat acreage atid so bring producetlon down to the normal demand. Secretary Rusk has some hopes of i dling the Germans to use our Indian corn. Many difficulties have attended the introduction of a new food horoloforo generally regard off In Eorflpe as not, «'iitn , * , e for in man consumption, A m’xed corn and rye bread was found neces yto secun: keeping qualities in a country w here all bread is made and sold by the bakeries, and corn g hiding machinery purchased in Am rica is now in use iu several mills in Liiat country. One esult is the maintenance of the price of com in tiie face of largely iucreas - • xports, condition,, which have heretofore always accompanied a groat depreciation iu pr ,*e. The corn exports of 1890, tho only year in which they have equaled those of the present year, brought the price (.own to a ractiou tiuder 4! cents a bushel at the port of shipment, against a fraction over 55 cents per bushel this year, a difference aggregating ou the exports of the past fiscal year no 1 * less than ion million dollars. •Secretary Rjjsk throws cold water on the rain makers. Thoexperimentsaro being made as Congress directed, but the facts In his possession do not justify tho anticipations formed by tho believers in this method of artificial rain making. ; Secretary Rusk thinks the reduction (J tho cotton area u sop in the right direction. With reference t,o our cereals ho attributes tho excessive anticipations formed regarding tho price for wheat throughout Urn crop your of 1391 tafailure to appreciate tlio changed conditions now surrounding the production and murkottug of the world’s whoa' crop. The experience of Mih department in tlx domestic sugar industry the past year confirms his former reports and show* that domegticsugar can be produced with profit to the grower of tho crop and to tho manufacturer. Secretary Rusk suggests Important changes in regard to the utnre organization of tho department, by which ull divlr ons of tho wi rk shall be grouped witli roferoueo to their character Into buroaus.

A Ch cago crazy man n mod Seiglcr comm tied an nwiul crime Sunday. He armed h.mself with a breech loading shot gun and went on the war path. He shot and killed his father and mother-in-law and injured The attempt or the police to arrest him led to a pitched battle, nor did bo surrender until badly wounded. Ho opened a general ftisiladc upon oih'cors and spectators, injiiringsome of tlinm. The occurance took place near a church, the congregation of Which turned out. and after his cap ure could hardly ho prevented from lynching him. Hi wife said ho had never shown signs 1 f mental derangoinent. Seigler, after his capture talked of the shooting. “I only did what ihe spirits told mo, and when I get. out. of here there Issuing to be nuother big fight.” The fishing schooner Edith the Pryor arrlvod at Portland, Mc-. Siintfay, and reports the loss of s i of her crow whili taking In trawls of Mntinh us. Tho Philadelphia mint has alread) struck off over two l.housund of the new souvenir half dollars intended for th World s Fair. Including four coins so which fancy prices havo boon offered. Reports from dlffrreiitcotton centers re port a very short crop, du* to floods and early frosts./ Tho Carnegie company propose to erec and open other mills for the purpose ol making plate, fclie present capacity of tho company being insufficient to meet tho demauds of the government under tin con 1 ract. The Press League of Chicago, like tho Press Club of Naw York, is com turned entirely of women earning »%ieir living bv newspaper writing and was organized for tTie purport of co-nperution m acquiring and dis geminating information. Until thr close of the Exposition the head ouarters of the league will be in Chicago, after which its location may be changed by vote of the members. - ---- - * ■ ...