Billion Bushel
Wheat Yield
Is Indicated
May Report Forecasts Win?
ter Crop of 572,539,000
Bushels
Secretary Houston
Praises Farmers
Food Outlook Good, but
Cities Are Urged to
Aid Producers
WASHINGTON, May 8.?Hope for
the billion-bushel wheat crop, for
which the government is striving this
year, was strengthened to-day by the
Department of Agriculture's May crop
report forecasting a production o:
572,539,000 bushels of winter wheat.
Secretary Houston in a statement
to-night said there was every reason to
anticipate increased farm yields this
year over the record production of last
year. He added, however, that the
promise did not warrant relaxed ef?
forts for greater production and for
greater conservation, and called upon
the people of towns and cities to real?
ize that the farmer cannot work mir?
acles, and lend him the assistansce
? needed at harvest time.
Wheat Making Good Progress
Realization of a winter crop as large
as that forecast would place this year's
harvest of that grain as the third larg?
est ever gathered. The estimate is
12,500,000 bushels more than forecast
in April from conditions then existing
and 154,400,000 bushels more than the
crop harvested last summer. On con?
ditions from now until harvest time
will depend whether the crop will be
larger or smaller than to-day's forecast
based on conditions May 1. In the
week since then generally favorable
weather for wheat development con
tinned, and the crop has made excel?
lent progress in all principal producing
area?.
Efforts have been made to stimulate
production of spring wheat, and pre?
liminary reports indicate an increase
in the acreage of that crop, which may
be sufficient under good growing con?
ditions to bring the total wheat pro?
duction this year weil toward the
billion bushel markV No official re?
port has yet been made on the acre?
age of spring wheat. The first an?
nouncement will be made in June. Re?
ports indicate the seed already planted
has germinated well generally.
Record Rye Production
Rye production will be a record, the
forecast of the crop being 82,020,000
bushels, or 22.000,000 bushels 'more
than last year's crop.
"With favorable weather and with
a supplement of man power from the
tewns and'Cities to help in farm tasks
of particular strain, especially in
harvesting," said Mr. Houston's state?
ment, "there is every reason to antici?
pate increased yields of farm prod?
ucts this year over the record pro?
duction last year, but the promise for
the future does not in the least war?
rant relaxed efforts both for greater
production and for greater conserva?
tion. The increase should be reas?
suring to consumers and a matter of
encouragement to farmers that they
can again overcome difficulties. There
is a continuing noted for large, supplies
of food and feed products, not only
for our own population, but for the
Allies in Europe, who will depend more
and more on this country.
Praises the Farmers.
"The farmers last year responded
generously to the patriotic appeal of
the President, the Department of Agri?
culture, the state colleges of agricult?
ure and other public agencies, by
planting and harvesting the largest
acreage in crops on record in this
country. Since last July the depart?
ment, in cooperation with the agricult?
ural colleges and other state and lo?
cal organizations, has labored unceas?
ingly to maintain and, if possible, to
increase in 1918 the record acreages
of 1917, with necessary adjustments
especially to provide for larger pro?
ductions of wheat and other bread
grains which are most needed.
"The indicated increased acreage in
food crops this year over the record
crop of 1917 is gratifying. An increase
over the record for peace times would
have been striking, in view of all the
difficulties. The vigorous efforts of the
farmers evidence their patriotic deter?
mination to help win the war.
Cities Must Aid Farmers.
"Reports indicate that in order to
plant larger acreages with less help
than ever before farmers are working
from early dawn until black darkness,
utilizing to the fullest capacity all
their man power, family power, horse
power and machinery and setting an
example of extraordinary exertion and
efficiency which might well be followed
in other essential industries. The
work of the farmers and of the agri?
cultural *>gencies is not spectacular and
does not catch the public eye, but it js
nevertheless unceasing and (effective
and is as vitally important as any other
aervice rendered in the nation in this
emergency.
"Furniers have done and will con?
tinue to do their part. They have
planted generously. They will need
the assistance, in cultivation and har?
vesting of many additional laborers.
The critical factors in crop production
after planting will be weather and
labor. Weather is beyond human con?
trol, but the necessary labor for culti?
vating and harvesting the food crops
planted by the farmers of this country
must be supplied when and where most
needed.
jThie departments of Agriculture
" *n?. "??aoor are cooperating and are
taking every step posible to help the
larmcrs secure labor. It now devolves
upon the cities and towns to lend as?
sistance. I trust that the thoughtful
?people of the towns and cities will real?
ize that the farmers cannot work mira?
cles and that upon the cities rests the
responsibility of furnishing the neces?
sary supplement of man power."
Wheat Condition 86.4
The area of winter wheat remainin"
to be harvested on May 1 was 36 3lj>"
000 acres, or 13.7 per cent less 'than
the acreage planted last autumn. The
condition of the crop was 8C.4 per cent
of normal, indicating an acre yield of
approximately 15.7 bushels.
Production of rye. forecast from
May 1 conditions, will be 82,629,000
bushels, based on a condition of ?5 8
per cent of a normal.
Production of hay will be 107,550,000
ton?, based on a condition of 89.6 per
cent of a normal and an expected acre
j, age of 69,531,000 acres, of, which 53,
605.000 is tame and 15,920,000 wild.
Stocks of bay on farms May 1 are
estimated ?t 11,096,000 tons. Av?ra*?.'
condition of pastures was x.',.l ota ?cot
of a normal; ???ring ploughing was 77.?
i
Indian Lands to Be Turned
Into Vast Wheat Fields
New York Capitalists Will Finance Plan to Utilize
Reservations in Effort to increase American
Production of Bread Cereal
I
Hundreds of thousands of acres of
rich Indian lands in the Northwest are
to be made into wheat fields that will
add millions of bushels to next year's
crop through a project now under ne?
gotiation between the Department of
the Interior, large Western agricul?
tural interests and leading New York
banking institutions.
Immediately upon settlement of de?
tail's of the transaction preliminary
woTk wi'l be started on 100,000 acres
in the Shoshone and other reserva?
tions. It is understood that the inten?
tion is to prepare the soil of this vast
tract for planting the coming fall with
-a iter wheat. As soon as possible
thereafter another hundred thousand
acres will be brought under cultiva?
tion, perhaps in timo for planting to
spring wheat early in 1919. If the
project is carried through successfully
it probably will prove to be only the
beginning of a gigantic development to
insure an adequate supply of the prin?
cipal bread grain.
New York Capital Interested.
The plan originated with Thomas D.
Campbell, of Los Angeles, one of the
most successful wheat growers in the
world, with many, thousands of acres
under development in California,
North Dakota and other parts of the
West. Mr, Campbell, it is understood,
?imposed to the Department of the In?
terior that he be permitted to plant
40,000 acres of Indian lands in the
Northwest to'wheat as a war measure.
The idea met with enthusiastic in?
dorsement, but it was officially sug?
gested that instead of confining it to
per cent completed and spring planting
G0.8 per cent.
Forecast by States
Condition and forecast of production
of winter wheat by principal states
follow:
Ohio conditions?83; forecast, 33,
492.000 bushels.
Indiana?96 and 47,771,000.
Illinois?92 and 4-1,120,000.
Missouri?95 and 45,963,000.
Nebraska?82 and 47,884,000.
Kansas?84 and 96,104.000.
Oklahoma?78 and 29,531,000.
Large Acreage Abandoned
In a statement on winter wheat the
Department of Agriculture said:
"The abandonment of acreage, 13.7
per cent, is heavier than the average
(10.9 per cent for ten years) and
heavier than had been generally an?
ticipated, although it followed logically
a very low condition last December.
Of the total acreage abandoned
(5,778,000) 2,749,000, or nearly one
half, is debited to Kansas. The four
states of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas contribute nearly foui*
fifths of the total acreage abandon?
ment.
"In percentage abandonment the
heaviest are 45 per cent in Texas and
Wisconsin, 35 in New Mexico, 29 in
Kansas, 24 in Michigan, 20 in North
Dakota and Oklahoma and 15 in New
York. Although winter killing is the
U ual cause of abandonment, an im
} (-riant cause this year is the unusual
dry weather last autumn and this
spring, which prevented growth after a
weak germination.
"The acreage remaining improved
during April, which was generally cool
and moist, a condition favorable to j
wheat. The condition on May 1 for the ;
United States. 80.4 per cent, compares
with a ten-year average of 85.7 per [
cent. A month ago the condition of
the plant was about 6 per cent below
the average. The higher condition fig?
ure for the United States on May 1 is
'due partly to the elimination of the
abandoned acreage this month in ob?
taining the average for the United
??States."
m-?
SaysTammanyLeaders
Best Social Workers
The best and more, versatile social
worker of them all is the Tammany
Hall district leader, according to
Charles A. Beard, director of Municipal
Research, who spoke at the ninth an?
nual conference of Charities and Cor?
rections at the Russell Sage Founda?
tion building on "Public Administra?
tion and Social Work."
"In order to be effective in his com?
munity, the social worker must know
the government of the community, its
personnel and its functions," said Pro?
fessor Beard. "He must know the
courts, particularly the juvenile, do?
mestic re.ations and petty criminal
courts." He said the Tammany district
leaders had this knowledge.
Frederick D. Greene, general secre?
tary of the United Hospital Fund; Miss
Mary E. Paddori; William Gual, Char?
ity Commissioner of Yonkers, and Ar?
thur W. Towne, secretary of the Brook?
lyn Society for the Prevention of Cruel?
ty to Children, agreed with Professor
Beard's views.
John P. Gavit, of Harper & Bros.,
spoke on publicity methods in social
service. Fred S. Hall, chairman of the
Committee on Publicity and Administra?
tive Methods, recommended the aboli?
tion of charity solicitors working on
commission and suggested the annual
publication by charitable organizations
of thei; financial statements.
At the night session, held in the Sur?
rogates' Court in Brooklyn, probation
and parole were discussed. The con
ference will close with sessions to-day
at the Leake and Watts Orphan House,
463 Hawthorne Avenue, Yonkers.
40.000 acres the scheme be carried
l through on a much larprer scale.
Mr. Campbell was willing to under
I take the greater task, but to create a
wheat field of 200,000 acres required a
heavy investment in buildings, tractors
and other modern agricultural equip?
ment designed to produce tho maxi?
mum result with the minimum of la
i bor. Accordingly, the plans were laid
before New York bankers, who now
have under consideration the question
of supplying the necessary capital.
Th?y are, it is understood, looking at
! the matter solely from the viewpoint
of national interest, rather than as an
ordinary business transaction, and
little doubt is entertained that all tho
capital needed will be forthcomihg if
other details of the transaction are
worked out satisfactorily.
Will Use Indian Labor
One of the most serious problems to
be solved is that of procuring an ade?
quate supply of labor, but as one way
of meeting this arrangements have
been made, or are under consideration,
to utilize the services of the Indians
on the reservations. The operation
will, moreover, be conducted like a
great manufacturing business, and
every possible labor-saving device and
all economies inherent in large scale
production will be availed of.
The lands to be farmed are among
the richest in the West, and It is ex?
pected an average yield of at least
fifteen bushels an acre will be ob?
tained the first year. That would
mean a production of 3,000,000 bushels.
Full details of the project are not yet
available, but it is said that, in con
I sideration of the development of the
; land, the government will agree to per?
mit its use for a term of years free
from taxation. Cultivation would, of
course, add to the value of the land, so
the government would thus reap an in-,
direct profit in addition to stimulating
the production of wheat.
British Riveters
Start Race With
Workers in U. S.
Gang in London Sets Rec?
ord at 4,267 in Nine
Hours
WASHINGTON, May 8.?An inter- j
national contest in rivet driving has j
been started between American and |
British shipyards. News to-day from :
London that a rivet gang there had ;
driven 4,267 rivets in nine hours re- !
vealed that Lord Northcliffe recently
cabled the Shipping Board asking for !
the records of American rivet gangs
and? details of their work to stimulate ;
rivalry.
Officials of the Shipping Board were !
amazed to-day at the English figures, j
The American record of 2,720, which '?
the British set out to beat in making ;
their record, has been surpassed twice :
in the last two weeks. Edward Gibson
and his gang, at the plant of the Fed?
eral Shipbuilding Company in Kearny, |
N. J., drove 2,919 three-quarter inch |
button-head rivets in a ship's floor in !
eight hours, and John Corrigan, assisted '
by three men, drove 3,415 three-quar?
ter inch rivets in a plate floor on skids
in nine hours at the plant of the De?
troit Shipbuilding Company in Wyan
dotte, Mich. Corrigan's record so far
is the best ever made in an American
yard. ;
Nine-Hour Riveting Record
Broken in London Plant,
Where It Is Put at 4.267
LONDON, May 8.?The record made
by Charles Schock, who at Baltimore !
drove in 2,720 rivets in nine hours,
| has been beaten in London. The work
? men of Fraser & Fraser set out to
beat Schock's record. The effort was
made yesterday by a selected squad of
i riveters under Robert Farrant, aged
i thirty-one. He is one of a family of
? eighteen, and his father, aged sixty
i seven, is a riveter in the same yard.
He hammered in 4,267 rivets in nine
: hours, an average of slightly less than
; 475 an hour, or one rivet every seven
? and a half seconds. This is claimed
| to be a world's record.
2,805 Rivets Is Record
At Fore River Plant
QUINCY, Mass., May 8.?vVhile anx
! ious to give Robert Farrant, a British
| riveter, full credit in breaking the
; world's record, officials of the Fore
! River plant called attention to the
' fact that Charles Mulham on April 30
took the American record from Charles
i Schock, of Baltimore.
I In a nine-hour stretch Schock drove
! 2,720 rivets. In the same' period of
| time Mulham drove 2,805, and he has
! since stated that he expected to do
i even better than that.
Calumet River Riveter
| Second in American Race
CHICAGO, May 8?In the interna
, tional contest among shipbuilders at
i riveting the record of William Harts,
? who drove 3,055 rivets in nine hours
j at the Calumet River p ant o. the
| Chicago Shipbuilding Company last
Monday, stands second in the United
I States only to that of John Corrigan,
' of Detroit, who drove 3.415.
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Shipping Board
Asks Congress for
$2,223,835,000
Over Half of This Amount
Goes to Building of
Ships Alone
New Docks Needed
Newark's Cost Plus Contracts
Changed to Flat Price to
Speed Up Output
WASHINGTON, Mpy 8.?Estimates
I submitted to Congress to-day by the
Shipping Board call for an appropria
! tion of $2,223,835,000.
For the cost of construction of ships
authorized by the urgent deficiency bill
of 1917 the board has requested an ap?
propriation of $1,380,100,000, and for
the purchasing and requisitioning of
plants and material $052,000,000.
Other estimates include:
For acquisition or establishment of
? plants for shipbuilding, $5,000,000.
For scquisition of lands and build
! ings, $50,000,000.
For the operation of all ships pro
? posed in the estimates, $500,000,000.
$35,000,000 for Concrete
For acquisition of lands and build
| struction of concrete ships and for con
I struction of concrete ships, $35,000,000.
For recruiting and instructing officers
i for American vessels, $10,250,000.
For the cost of development of port
facilities, $25,000,000.
For construction or completing of
ships in shipyards and foreign coun
? tries, $55,000,000,
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping
; Board, told the committee $25,000,000
|or $30,000,000 is needed for drydocks
; on the Atlantic coast. Two are neces?
sary at Weehawken, N. J., and others
are needed at New York and Boston,
he said. Mr. Hurley Suggested that a
proposed appropriation for deeepening
a channel in Los Angeles harbor be in?
creased from $100,000 to $204,000.
Change of Newark Contract
The cost-plus contracts of the Sub?
marine Boat Company, at Newark, N.
J.. for construction of 160 steel ships
of 5,000 tons each, have been cancelled,
Chartes M. Schwab,, production direc?
tor of the Emergency Fleet Corpora?
tion, to-day told the Senate Commerce
Committee in t.ii investigation of the
company's work. New contracts were
substituted on a flat basis of $960,000
for each ship.
Cost-plus contracts at the Hog Isl?
and and Bristol, Penn., government
yards weie continued, Mr. Schwab
said. The substitution for the Newark
Bay yard was designed to speed up
construction, which, it was said, is far
behind schedule.
Another reason for changing the
contracts, Mr. Schwab said, was that
it had. been reported that officers of the
Submarine Company were interested in
profits obtained by other companies
selling material to the Fleet Corpora?
tion. t Mr. Schwab explained that he
had not confirmed these reports.
By annulling the contracts, Mr.
Schwab said, the government would
definitely limit costs and also place
upon the contracting corporation the
risks of construction.
In fixing $960,000 as the price of the
ships, Mr. Schwab said the corporation
allowed for various increases over the
original estimates of cost. The old
contracts placed material at $350.000,
which the new one increases by $50,000;
the labor cost originally estimated at
$200,000 was increased 40 per cent to
$280,000, and the overhead expense,
originally $200,000, was increased to
$230,000. The fee of $50,000 makes the
total of $960,000.
Mr. Schwab gave ft as his opinion
that the new contract means that the
ships actually will cost less than under
the cost plus contract and that con?
struction would be speeded up.
U. S. Makes New Plans
For Financing Allies
WASHINGTON, May 8.?A report on
the future financial needs of the Allies
was presented to the Treasury to-day
by Oscar T. Crosby, president and
American member of the Inter-Allied
Council on Finance and Purchases, oar
his return from Europe, where he has
been since last September.
Mr. Crosby, who is still Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, will assist
in working out a plan of extending
greater credits direct to France, Italy
and other co-belligerents, instead of
through Great Britain. This w>U re?
lieve Great Britain of borrowing from
the United States approximately the
sums required for British loans to the
Allies.
The financial branch of the council
was organized in Paris about five
months ago, and consists of represen
I tatives of the principal allied govern?
ments. It has acted as a board of
priority for American loans.
BernstorfFs Code
To Direct Sabotage
In U. S. Deciphered
Papers Seized on Schmidt
Turned Over to the
Government
ALBANY, May 8.?The von Bern
storff code, the means of communica?
tion employed by the German Foreign
Office to keep in touch with Count
Johann von Bernstorff, former am?
bassador to this country, while he was
directing sabotage and other German
activities in the United States, has
been deciphered, reconstructed and
turned over to the Federal government
by Attorney General Merton E. Lewis,
it was announced to-day.
This was the code which Hugo
Schmidt, the alleged paymaster in this
country of the German Foreign Office,
attempted to destroy by burning the
original copy in the furnace at a Ger?
man club in New York City.
According to the code, it was stated
at the office of the Attorney General,
the words "a boy was born yesterday,
both well," meant "the remittance of
German war loan bonds mentioned in
your wireless arrived safely."
Code Name Was "Sidney Pickford"
Hugo Schmidt's code name was
; "'Sidney Pickford." Bolo Pacha was
: known as "St. Regis," Captain Boy
! Ed as "Richard Houston" and von
! Papen as "Thomas Hoggson." The
I German Foreign Office was coded as
; "William Foxley."
; Copper and wool, large quantities
of which were obtained for shipment
into Germany through neutral coun?
tries, were coded as "Yadk'in bonds"
and "Southern Norfolk bonds," re?
spectively.
Fragmentary evidence of the code '
which was discovered in the office
of Schmidt enabled Alfred L. Becker,
Deputy Attorney General, to recon?
struct the puzzling means of com- '
munication devised by the crafty Ger- j
man Foreign Office. Thousands of
wireless messages in Schmidt's files i
contained the body and key to this
bode. From these papers, which had
not been destroyed, as duplicates were
in existence at the wireless stations
at Sayvillo and Tuckerton, the At?
torney General largely built up and
deciphered the code.
When Schmidt became entangled in
the Attorney General's investigation of
the activities of Paul Bolo Pacha, who
was recently executed by the French
government for treason, he immedi?
ately went to a German club and is
said to have tossed the original papers
containing the code into the furnace.
Attorney General Lewis is said, how?
ever, to have not only drawn this fact
from Schmidt, but also enough other
information about the code to facil?
itate its reconstruction.
In addition to the code the Attorney
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In a letter addressed to
this Company's Branch
Manager in Cleveland, Ohio,
the Treasurer of a company
located in that city wrote :
"Statement, of our claim
was toll graphed to your
Claim Division in New
York, and check for full
amount of the bond
reached my oflh;e the next
afternoon.
"Allow m?> to command
you fur tho energy with
which you assisted mo in
this cas?? and to thank
your Company for its
prompt payment."
It is the policy of this
Company to pay jus i
claims with the utmos:
promptness in every
instance. Needless de?
lays always are vexa?
tious and often costly.
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General's office has furnished the ?
Federal government with a complete
index of names and subjects involved
in the investigation of the Hugo
Schmidt-Deutsche Bank negotiations,
a summary of the inquiry into the
activities of German agents relative to
the wool trade and a special report on
remittances by the German Foreign
Office to South American countries to
defray the expense of German propa?
ganda.
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Court Martial Named j
To Try Gen. Donnelly
_
Three Major Generals and
Five Brigadiers to Sit at
Governor's Island
WASHINGTON, May 8.?A general
court martial, composed of three major
?generfils and five brigadier generals,
was named to-day to assemble at Gov?
ernor's Island, New York, to-morrow,
for the "trial of such persons as may
be brought before it." It is assunr'd
the case th t n? cessitatod the creation
of the court is that of Brigadier Gen?
eral ?Arthur B. Donnelly, of the Mis?
souri National Guard, charged with
conduct unbecoming an officer.
General Donneliy has been detainod
at Governor's Island following the fil?
ing of charges that he participated in a
card game with junior officer:* in which
money was passed and that hr* had
knowledge of the presence of liquor on
the person of soldiers in his command.
The court is headed by M-.jor Gen?
eral J. Franklin Bell, and, with the ex?
ception of General Bell and Brigadier
General William A. Mann, commindirg
the Eastern Department, is composed
of retired officers. They are M nor
Generals William II. Carter and Hugh
L. Scott. Brigadier General1* Theodore
A. Bingham. ?>lont.gomery M. Macomb,
James Parker and William T. R?ssel!.
Major Dudley V. Sutphin is appointed
judge advocate of the court and Major
Jackson A. Pykman assistant to the
judge advocate.
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"Of Shoo Co., 210 "?park St.,
P.roekton, Mass.
BOYS SHOES
Best In theWcrHI
33.00 A $3.50
U W. L. Douglas Stores in Greater New York:
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sure W. L. Douglas name and dt?
retail price is stamped on tbt
bottom and the inside top facing.
This absolutely protects you against
high prices and unreasonable profita
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347 FJsrhth Avenue.
?250 West 125th Street.
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421 Fulton ?street, cor. Pearl.
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JKRSKY CITY- 18 Newark Avenen.
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?NEWARK S::i Broad Street.
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