The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1681, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 10, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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ASHINGTQN.—If America
is waiting for good crops
this year to bring about
the dawn of prosperity
greater than she ever has
known before she will
. have her fondest hopes
realized. The government’s report of
acreage and probable harvests shows
beyond preadventure that the yields
of grain and cotton will be big—some
of them record crops. But bumper
years in grain, and corn and cotton
frequently have brought low prices.
It will not be so this year. Outside
of America the harvests of the world
will be smaller than usual. As a con-
sequence the agriculturists in this
country will receive a thousand mili-
the figures of the government’s esti-
mate of the bumper crop of corn came
out the other afternoon there was a
hush in one of the big Wall street
grain brokerage offices. Then a man
spoke up: “Great heavens! there
isn’t loose money enough in the world
to corner that crop.” Corn alone will
make the American farmer not far
from $500,000,000 richer this year
than he was last.
BUMPER CROPS SURE FOR
BOTH COTTON AND WHEAT.
Take cotton, too. Last year’s crop
was 11,581,829 bales. The average
price was a little under 10 cents a
pound and its total value a little
mere than $579,000,000. The indi-
the last two years, and it looks as if
this year's yield was going to be scant
also. Outside of America, Europe de-
pends largely on the vast wheat
fields of the Argentine for her bread.
Thirty per cent, less wheat was sown
there this year than last, and it is
estimated that the yield will be 50,-
000,000 bushels less. All this benefits
the American farmer.
The American farmer will get over
$60,000,000 more for his crop of oats
this year than he did last. In 1908
the yield was 789,000,000 bushels, and
it sold for $321,000,000. This year’s
estimate is 963,000,000 bushels, which
at the minimum price of 40 cents a
bushel would bring in the huge sum
of $385,000,000. Only about a million
and a half bushels of oats are ex-
ported. Not all the rest goes to feed
horses and cattle by any means. The
200,000 automobiles in this country
have cut down the number of horses
and the consumption of oats corre-
spondingly. This decrease has been
more than made up, however, by hu-
man beings eating more oats than
they used to. Many of the cereal
breakfast foods are made from oats,
and their consumption in that way
cuts a big figure.
To recapitulate the way the record
runs in this year’s increase in the
value of the four great staples, so
that the eye can take it in at a glance,
here are the figures:
Cotton ........................ $200,000,000
Cotton by-proclucts ............... 27,000,000
Corn ................................. 500,000,000
Oats ............... 64,000,000
Wheat ............................... 109,000,000
Total ..............................$900,000,000
Beside these the crops of hay, al-
falfa, potatoes, tobacco and the other
products of the soil are either no less
or else far greater than usual. Ex-
perts estimate that the added wealth
that these will stow away in the
pockets of the American farmer this
year will be not far from $100,000,000.
Add this to the total of the three
which is the basis of sugar. Most of
the candy that America eats is made
from sugar that comes from corn.
The people of this country are con-
suming it in other "ways, too—ways
that were unthought of a few years
ago, when corn bread and muffins
were all that came out of the bakers’
ovens. An enormous number of break-
fast foods are made out of corn to-
day. Almost every month sees some
new preparation of this sort. Instead
of eating corn in some form once a
week, as we used to do, we now con-
sume hundreds of thousands of
bushels every morning at breakfast,
disguised by baking and sugaring so
that most of its resemblance to its
original form and taste has been lost.
The railroads of America spend in
prosperous times nearly a billion and
a quarter dollars a year in new equip-
ment, in keeping the old in repair and
for the vast quantity of supplies that
they need. When the cars are full
and there are none idle they buy free-
ly. Factories of all sorts from one
end of the country to the other work
full time and overtime to supply their
needs, New lines are built, opening
up virgin territories and bringing
them nearer to the markets. Wages
are good and there is work for all.
EVER-GROWING MARKET
FOR AMERICAN COTTON,
It is predicted that the price of cot-
ton will not fall materially below 13
cents a pound for a long time to come.
Cotton consumption is increasing fas-
ter than the lint is being raised. The
steady increase in population all over
the world, of course, makes an ever
growing market. Many of the millions
of China clothe themselves in cotton
cloth whose fibres grew in the south-
ern United States. The Hankow-
Szechuen railroad that is now being
financed by great European and
American interests will open up ter-
ritory in China that is larger in area
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ions of dollars more for the products
of their fields than they ever realized
in a single year before. The total
value of the four great staples alone—
wheat, oats, corn and cotton—will be
greater this year by nearly three-
quarters of a billion dollars than they
have been in any year of this coun-
try’s history.
Never before have the great corn
fields of America yielded such boun-
teous harvests as they are going to
this year. The government’s esti-
inate is nearly three and a quarter
billion bushels—and nine times out
of ten the government guesses con-
siderably under the actual figures
when all the records are made up.
The biggest yield of corn that this
country has ever known was in 1905,
less than three billion bushels. The
average price last year was a little'
more than 50 cents a bushel. Corn
for December delivery is selling now
at 65 cents a bushel. Figuring the
value of the present crop this price
Would make its value total the vast
eum of more than two billions of dol-
lars— 2.000 millions of money. When
cated crop this year, according to the
government’s experts’ reports, will be
at least 12,000,000 bales. It is likely
from the present outlook that this
crop will he marketed at not less than
13 cents a pound, $65 a bale, $780,000,-
000—over $200,000,000 more than last
year with hut a small increase in the
yield.
The wheat crop this year will be
at least 663,000,000 bushels, and ex-
perts say that it is not likely to fall
bejow $1.10 a bushel for a long time
to come. That means $729,000,000
worth of wheat will soon be on the
way to the elevators. Last year’s
harvest was 660,000,000 bushels, and
it brought $620,000,000, so the Ameri-
can wheat farmer will have $109,000,-
000 more to spend Lfrom that source
than he did the year' before.
The reason wheat is worth more
than a dollar a bushel, which used
to be a price that the farmers dreamed
of, is not because the crop in this
country is especially short. It is but
a little below the record crop of 1906.
But there has been a shortage in the
wheat crop all over the world for
great cereals and cotton, and the
total is a thousand millions of dollars
—the vast sum by which the national
wealth will be increased this year.
The farmer will not get it all. He
will pay-out vast sums for labor, for
machinery with which to plant new
crops, for new buildings in which to
house them and his other belongings,
for luxuries and comforts which he
has gone without when crops were
poor and prices low.
Getting the crops to market will
bring the railroad and steamship lines
a tremendous flood of added revenue
over the leaner years. The farmer
no longer stores his grain in the
fields as he used to years ago. He
send^ it first to the elevators that
rear their huge bulk beside the rail-
road tracks. There he holds it until
he gets the price he thinks it ought
to bring. If he wants to borrow
money meanwhile the slip &f paper
that the grain warehouse gives him
is good collateral for all he wishes.
Then when the flood of wheat and
cotton moves eastward and south-
ward to the ocean gateways, where
the great ships are waiting to take
it across the seas, more money is put
into circulation, millions of it. Against
this time when the endless trains will
begin to .-journey to the grain ports
on the lakes or to the cotton cities
on the gulf the money for the moving
of the crops is being heaped up now
in the great financial centers of ths
country.
CONSUMPTION IS KEEPING
UP WITH PRODUCTION.
America exports only about 2 per
cent, of her corn. She sends seven-
twelfths of her raw cotton to foreign
lands. The domestic consumption of
corn is more tfian keeping pace with
the huge increases in production.
Millions of bushels go to feed and fat-
ten the cattle find hogs whose beef
and pork, grown on the western
prairies and slaughtered in Chicago,
feed the inhabitants of every corner
of the globe. But one of the chief
uses of corn has sprung up during the
last decade and has grown into an
immense industry. Millions and mill-
ions of bushels are made into slucose.
than Germany and Switzerland com-
bined. It J^a^a poulation greater
than the United States,
125,000,000. 'Western Asia is being
developed byv tv railroad extending
from southeastern Europe to Bagdad
and the Persian gulf. Hitherto this
great territory has received its cot-
ton goods by caravan from Aden and
the Red sea. The opening up of these
two great territories is among the
things that are likely to keep the
price of cotton up, no matter how
much is raised during the next few
years. Five years ago, when the gov-
ernment’s cotton crop report estimat-
ing 12,162,000 bales was published,
the price of cotton dropped to 614
cents a pound. This year this same
production is regarded as very mod-
erate. Thirteen million five hundred
thousand bales is the record crop.
But the cotton fibre alone is not all
that comes from the plant. Twenty-
five. years ago the farmers used to
shovel the despised cotton seed into
the bayous, bury it in the earth, try
to burn it—anything to get rid of it.
Now the cotton seed oil industry of
this country is worth $100,000,000 an-
nually, to say nothing of the other
by-products, cake meal and hulls.
FAILURE OF OLIVE CROP
GOOD THING FOR AMERICA,
Last year the European olive crop
failed. The devout Moslems of Tur-
key and Asia Minor would not eat
butter or lard. There was little olive
oil to be had. They bought cotton
seed oil by the shipload. Now they
like It better than olive oil and they
don’t care whether that crop fails oi
not.
Every line of industry throughout
the country feels the quickening .im-
pulse of good crops and good prices
It touches impartially the little sod
house far out on the Dakota prairie
and the palace of the millionaire on
upper Fifth avenue. The section hand
putting in new ties on the railroad
feels it, the toilers in factories, the
clerks in cities—there is no life so re-
mote that it is not affected when the
crops are abundant.
Ice cold sodas are excellent drinks
for creating a thirst.
®EN
CABINET
Peach Chutney.
To four pounds of peaches, peeled
and pits removed, add a pint and a
quarter of vinegar and stew till soft.
Then mix and pour together a half
pound each white mustard-seed,
chopped onions, sugar and raisins;
one-quarter pound ginger root, and an
eighth of a pound each of garlic and
dried peppers. When mixed well, add
to the fruit with three-quarters pint
additional vinegar. Boil slowly togeth-
er 15 minutes and seal.
To Keep Celery.
To prevent celery from having the
rusty appearance which spoils it for
salads, keep it closely wrapped in par-
affin paper in a closed, cool place.
Also avoid using water on it until a
short time before serving. The dis-
carded stalks are excellent for soups,
gravies, etc., being more effective
than celery salt.
WHEN HUSBAND’S SICK.
N SCOTLAND all the gudq
wives say:
“There is ha luck at a’.
There is na luck aboot the
hoose,
When my gudemon’3
awa’.”
But, with allfedeferenca to
what
Old Scotland's wives
may say,
My . gudemon sick, at
home, is worse,
Than my gudemon
away!
I get the water-bottle—no.
He wants a mustard
plaster;
And every time he feels
his pulse,
He swears it’s going faster.
That he is getting better,
He never will agree;
But if I think him worse, he’ll say:
“Don’t cry Calamity!”
“Gangrenous trouble will set In,-
Of that he’s very certain.
“Turn down the light; pull up the shade}
’Let air in; close the curtain!”
These things must all be done just so.
And they must all be done quick,
“There is na luck aboot the hoose,”
When my good man is sick.
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'THROUGH-OTHER” NORA.
S A colleen, my Norah,
Had byes all before her,
And they came from
afar and a-near,
But Norah, machree,
Is a throuble to me, ■
Since her housekeepin*
ways are so queer.
For a cat-and-dog life,
Is a “through-other" wife.
And though, bedad, Nor-
aii’s a daisy;
I would really like
A shillelah or pike.
When Mavourneen is
shiftless and lazy.
Now, wid order and care,
There’d be room for us
there,
(Just Norah, mysilf and the pig).
If she’d sweep a bit more.
And keep things off the floor,
Wan room wad be almost too big!
So I think some foine day,
I’ll be runnin’ away,
To Killarney, Tralee or Athlone,
And me and the pig,
Wid some praties and swig,
In a cabin we’ll live all alone.
“Through-other” Is an Irish expres-
sion meaning careless, untidy, shift-
less. It is the same peculiarity which,
in the neighboring Scotland is called
“ne’er-do-well.” It has reference, espe-
cialy, to domestic concerns. It is the
chief fault of the Irish peasantry that
they are not neat; not systematic; not
orderly. And it is a fault in which
they are, alas, not alone. Many a wom-
an in all countries, everywhere, i3
there who forgets th^ salt, puts too
much soda in the muffins; has ever a
germ-laden dishcloth and pots with
broken lids. All these are “through-
other” tricks. They are fatal to the
peace which should prevail in the
household. The “through-other” wom-
an works harder; her hours are long-
er; her lot is harder than that of the
systematic, tidy, orderly ' womau
whose work is managed with regular-
ity, system and forethought.
There are many “Pats” in the
world, and happy is the wife who
gives them no excuse, by her house-
keeping, to go running away,
In a cabin, wid praties and swig.
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Bridget's Beatitudes.
Blessed is the sour cream; it makes
excellent biscuit, and takes the place
of both milk and butter. Use with
soda in the proportion of a teaspoonful
of baking soda to a pint of thick
cream. It also serves in plain loaf
cake or spice cookies.
Blessed is the new style which ad-
mits of salted almonds being served:
on the cloth without the formality of
extra dishes.
Blessed is the gridiron which is pip-
ing hot when the meat is placed upon
it. Otherwise the steak will be tough.
The. sudden grilling retains the juices.
Use little, if any, extra grease. Neith-
er should steak be pounded; by this
barbarous method all the juices es-
cape. If the meat is tough or of
inferior grade, lay it half an hour in
a weak solution of vinegar.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1681, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 10, 1909, newspaper, August 10, 1909; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth910697/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.