Pullman herald. [volume], April 27, 1917, Image 5

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TJhSt SITUATION SERIOUS
The reports of agents under date
r? f'April' f Indicate that this country
*',Vbe facing a very serious sltua
'ln so fur as its chief food grain is
lion so '***
ne( i Th*' condition of wheat
Totted at 71.1. which is by fa.
L" lowest condition reported in a
itvmany years. In the last 30
are the lowest previous condition
„n 1904, when the average was
*C 5 The average of April condi
'',''for the hist 10 years Is above 87.
These comparisons show that the
■ ,inter wheat crop this year starts
under the most unfavorable condi
tions known i" many years.
|| The season is one to three weeks
late; in this li( the B,ble hope
that'when spring sunshine and show
ers shall have been fully experienced
,he plant may be found in somewhat
; better vigor than now seems appar
ent The unfortunate feature, how
ever, is that the latter reports from
day to day have grown worse rather
than better, showing that the ad
vance of growing conditions has re
vealed the situation even worse than
was feared a little earlier.
1 never undertake to report upon
crop factors until there is reason
able apportunity for the forming of
correct judgment. For that reason
no effort is made at this time to esti
mate the amount of wheat acreage
abandoned through winter-killing or
other disaster. That it is very large,
however, I am afraid is beyond
doubt. Agents of Orange Judd crop
reporting bureau this month were
asked to state whether in their judg
ment there was more than usual or
less than usual winterkilling. These
reports, without undertaking to go
Into figures, show a very heavy los
in Indiana and a less but material
loss in Illinois. The situation In Mis
souri is a trifle uncertain, with some
sections showing very heavy winter
loss and others less than usual, but
the average appears to lie more than
normal. The situation in western
Kansas and southern Nebraska is un
certain. All returns indicate the
greatest apprehension arising from
the fact that the plant never got a
start because of drouth last fall and
throughout the winter. On the
other hand, there is evidence that ac
tual winter-killing has not been very
extensive and there is some possibil
ity at least that prompt rains and
good growing weather during the
balance of the season may save some
of the areas thai now look hopeless.
. Any attempt to forecast probable
crop results with the meager data
now available can necessarily have
but little value. Nevertheless, on
the basis of past experience and as
suming that the acreage finally
abandoned shall be no more than
the average abandonment, the pres
ent situation might reasonably be In
terpreted as Indicating a possible
winter wheat crop of about 480.000,
--000 bushels as against a total pro
duction last year of 4 82,000,000.
The serious fact in this connection is
that whereas on the first of July last
year this country bad the largest
carry-over stock of old wheat which
it had possessed In a great, many
years, it will this year go int.. the
f rop year at that date, with the bins
"wept clean and probably the small
est stock of old wheat the country
"as held at that date since accurate
records were kept.
With the exception df western
Kansas and Nebraska and portions
M Oklahoma and Texas there is am-
Pc moisture in the ground at this
"J* to give the wheat a good start
whenever growing weather is expert
need. There was a shortage of
Nature all winter over a consider
able part of the wheat territory. Bui
«» s.uation was relieved during
eoruary by general and rather gen
erous rainfall.
This country needs ,his year, per
■mni 8S " has never needed before,
Pie crops, and it Is to be sincerely
X t ,hat the pr<*ent outlook for
at may be proved unnecessarily
J«mlstic by later developments. If,
th.e,? r ', ? Bhoulfl bwo,»e apparent
-, I"' ,he k,l^-out area _as large as
tolr e,,ls Poßßib,e• a patriotic desire
inter!? ,Hp CoUntry as well as self
ofn Wi" „irtatfi the substitution
ifffih food crops upon every acre
•does no. promise at least a mod
west farmstead. Sll „wl„Ml,.
west Farmstead.
?\X^ MAX ' Wash" APrU 23 ._,
aKrien. 0 Centralize control of the
I '„ "ral preparedness movement
Us , B,, atp ' R> » ' "'>«' on, farm
•mart*/? ' has moved hlB head-
He W " from Pullman to Olympia.
the n,,i Ct *" aßßlßtant secretary 0
tinted Tv"7'^ rommi,tee t0 be
as aggit >0> Governor Lister and
Re n8o n d,r '° Commissioner E. F.
'•ulture n the department of agri
"on hpV^ anß of th,B «o-opera
the deti ;'; en the State College and
««* ooml .m" nt ° f and
rled *™ ,tee. the Work can be car
th e 8t ' rough the torm. agents In
bl »reau „, .? We" as the "tension
I "v of the college. ':
SHORTAGE OF WIITAT
Winter wheat was sown lust au
tumn on 10,090.000 acres, which is
close to the largest acreage on rec
ord. The crop had a bad start in the
important growing states and eft
tered winter In poor condition. In
sufficient snow covering during the
winter killed much of the crop.
Much of the abandoned acreage
will he planted to corn in the south
ern part of the belt and to spring
wheat in the northern portion. Pre
vailing high prices for wheal are ex
pected to spur farmers to place a
larger acreage under spring wheat.
and officials look for a record crop
of that cereal, in Kansas and Ne
braska. the two leading winter wheat
growing states, the crop suffered
enormous damage. Kansas reported
a condition of 45 per cent of normal.
That was a decline of no points from
the condition reported December i
last.
Condition of winter wheat in the
Important growing states on April i
was:
Ohio, SO; Indiana. 65; Illinois.
30; Missouri. 62; Nebraska, 38;
Kansas. 45; Oklahoma. 71.
The world shortage and the world
war remain two great factors in de
termining the future of the demand
for wheat. With two exceptions,
every wheat producing country in the
world from which figures can be ob
tained is short on this vitally import
ant crop. The exceptions are India
and Australia. In India the forecast
for 1917 is an increase in wheal 1
acreage of eight per cent over the
Preceding year. In Australia the
1910-1017 crop is given as l 00,3 per
cent of the previous crop.
But the estimated production of
wheat. in Denmark, Spain, Prance
United Kingdom, Italy, Norway,
Netherlands, Rumania, Russia (48
governments), Switzerland. Canada,
United States, India, Japan, Egypt,
and Tunis is given as 74.7 per cent
of thai produced In Ifll4-">. These
figures are from the International
Institute of Agriculture, Rome. Italy,
and cover the 16 leading countries in
wheal production. Moreover, the
production of wheat In Argentina,
Australia and New Zealand for 1916
--17 is 70 per cent of that produced in
1915-16, or 92.3 per cent of the pre
vious five-year average. in other
words. the wheat crop of the world
Is below normal at a time when ab
normal demands are being made up
on It, when great quantities are be-
Ing destroyed on land and sea and
when normal labor supply is turned
toward other channels.
Unless all signs fail, it will be sev
eral years before the world will re
turn to normal prices for wheat.
Even if the war should end tomor
row lime WOUld be needed to restore
agriculture to the conditions that ex
isted In July, 1014. Europe must
farm with diminished man power, di
minished animal power and dimin
ished soil fertility. It must market
its products with run-down railroads
and worn-out locomotives and cars.
ENGLAND GUARANTEES
MINIMUM PRICE FOR GRAIN
The John Deere Plow Co. has sent
out a letter to their agents which
contains the following interesting in
formation :
In the Chicago papers recently ap
peared an address given by the Eng
lish premier, Lloyd George, touching
upon the necessity of greater produc
tion of crops in England, and in
order to stimulate the Industry the
English government guaranteed a
minimum price tor three leading
farm products for a period of seven
years, as follows:
Wheat Oats Potatoes
1917 $1.81 $1.18 $0.78
1918 1.68 .97 .78
1919 1.68 .97 .78
1920 1.36 .72 .78
192,1 1.38 .72 .78
1922 1.38 .72 .78
1923 1.36 .72 .78
Of course, it is a problem to say
just what effect these prices in Eng
land will have upon the price of farm
products in the United States, but
certainly the English prices would
have a tendency to keep our prices
up.
The price of wheat for the world
lias always been determined by the
price at Liverpool, and this guaran
tee of the English premier covering
prices of three principal products for
a period of seven years should cer
tainly indicate that we are reason
ably assured of a good market price
of farm products for some years to
come.
Motor driving, nursing, Industrial
work, social work, hospital service,
and gardening. These are but a few
of the many tasks that the women at
the State College of Washington
have Indicated their fitness for on
the blanks issued recently by the
National League for Women's
Service. '- V'
FOR SALE Two large ostrich
plume ferns. Inquire at Herald of
fice. apr2o-27
STATE FEDERATION
OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
Mrs, Solon Shedd, President
Clubwoman of Washington:
The slogan chosen as the rallying
all for Washington in the observ
■""''' of the new and wonderful cele
bration— nation wide Baby Week.
May i to 7—"Better Parents, Bat
ter Babies, Better State," may be
come significant from the civic point
of view when reversed—"Better
State, Better Babies. Better Par
ents."
We may begin by placing the ■_•
phasis upon the parents responsibil
ity for the baby's welfare because
of the result to the state. This is
where the individual responsibility
must begin. The baby receives bis
first, impressions of what it means to
he a good citizen, in the home.
Therein lies the fundamental Im
portance thai the state or the com
munity of homes shall make itself
responsible for the economic, educa
tional, and sanitary condition of
every single home.
Again we place the emphasis upon
the community's or state's responsi
bility because of its effect upon the
better individual baby, and the final
result, a bettei parent for the next
generation.
The responsibility is necessarily a
mutual one. for it has proved an ab
solute truth that viewed from each
point. "No man llveth to himself,
and no man dieth to himself."
Citizenship Is a collective relation
ship, and it must be the kind of life
the baby la taught to live in relation
to his fellows. Is he taught in the
home, the positive virtues of the
good citizen? Is he taught kindness.
consideration, self-control, justice,
and the greatest of all virtues need
ed today—love?
The only way to teach these to a
liltie child is through his relation
ship with those about him. combined
with the story form of instruction.
The story is the most effective means
"i teaching these positive virtues of
good citizenship to a child.
When the child leaves the home,
this educational process must be con
tinue, through the schools; and fin
ally, through the use of the school as
the civic center for the community
life, this process is continued with
the adult.
We, the people of the state, are
indeed responsible for the kind of
citizens we have in ibis democracy.
To this end the nation wide baby
week is chiefly educational, empha
sizing: 1. The Importance of the par
ent's responsibility for the right care
to the baby: (a) spirit of father and
mother toward the baby (love, pa
tience, gentleness, self-control): (b)
Importance of mother nursing the
baby; (c) sanitary condition of home
and surroundings.
2. The community's responsibil
ity for: (a) its infant mortality rate;
(b) clean milk supply; (c) complete
birth registration; (d) permanent
work for baby welfare; (c) training
in positive ideals of citizenship
through schools.
A child's right to citizenship in
this community may be abrogated
if his birth has not been registered.
Cordially yours.
MRS. JAMES COWAN WILSON.
.Maple Road, Wenatchee.
GOVERNMENT CHOI' AND
LIVE STOCK REPORT
Washington, D. ('., April 7, 1917.
— A summary of the April crop and
live stock report for the si ate of
Washington and tor the United
States, as compiled by the Bureau of
Crop estimates (and transmitted
through the Weather Bureau), U.
S. Department of Agriculture, Is as
follows:
Wheat
State—Condition April i this
year, 70 per cent of normal; 10-year
average condition figures for April
I, '.• I per cent.
United States—Condition April 1
this year, 63.4 per cent; 10-year av
erage April 1 condition, 80.2 per
cent.
Rye
State Condition April 1 this year,
86 per cent; 10-year average April I
condition, 97 per cent.
United States —Condition April 1
this year, 86.0 per cent; 10-year av
erage April 1 condition, 89.6.
Hogs:
State — Losses from disease past
year, 1.6 per cent; 10-year average,
l .^|per cent.
United States—Losses from dis
ease past year, 4.87 per cent; 10
--year average, 6.78 per cent.
Cattle
State —Losses from disease past
year, 1.5 per cent; 10-year average,
1.6 per cent. Losses from exposure
past year, 1.1 per cent; 10-year av
erage, ,6 per cent.
United States— Losses from dis
ease past year, 1.94 per cent; 10
--year average, 2.00 per cent. Losses
from exposure . past year 1.45 per
rent; 10-year average, 144 percent.
Sheep
State—Losses from disease past
year. 1.3 per cent; 10-year average.
1.8 per cent. Losses from exposure
past year, .'..:. per cent 10-year aver
age, 2.2 per cent.
'United States—Losses from dis
ease past year, 2.17 per cent; 10
--year average, 2.45 per cent. Losses
from exposure past yea'-. .1.28 per
cent: 10-year average, 3.06 per cent.
Morses and Mules
State— Losses from disease past
year. 1,6 per cent; 10-year average.
2.1 per cent.
United States — Losses from dis
ease past year. 1.69 per cent; 10-year
average, 1.94 per cent.
Prices
The first price given below is the
average on April 1 this year, and
the second the average on April I
last year.
State Wheat, IBS and si cents
per bushel. Corn. 106 and 103.
Oats, 59 and in. Potatoes, 163 and
78. Hay. $1 1.30 and $10.00 per ton.
RggS, 28 and 20 cents per dozen.
United States — Wheat. 180 and
98.8 cents per bushel. Corn, 113
and 70.3 cents. Oats. 02 and 4 2.0
cents. Potatoes, 235 and 97.6 cents.
Hay, $13.05 and $11.78 per ton. Cot
ton, 18.0 and 11.5 cents per pound.
Egg's, 26.0 and 17.9 cents per dozen.
' The laying day tor hens entered
in the All-Northwest Egg Laying
contest at the state College of Wash
ington has been greatly lengthened
during the winter months by the use
of a double lighting system. This
system consists of a bright light,
making conditions as near daylight
as possible and a dim light which is
turned on when roosting time conies.
Under these conditions a single comb
White Leghorn owned by Paul 11.
Tow of Tekoa has laid 103 eggs 111
107 days.
Sixty members of the faculty at
the State College of Washington
have organized a company and are
drilling twice daily under the direc
tion of one of the commissioned of
ficers stationed at the college. Every
member of the English department
faculty is out and four-fifths or the
Economics and History department.
The proceeds from the Junior
Prom, the "W" club dance, the Web
sterian Literary Society play, and
many other student affairs at the
State College of Washington are be
ing turned over to the Red Cross.
PULLMAN, Wash., April 23.—
The annual encampment of the
cadets at the State College of Wash
ington is being held in Pullman and
vicinity during the present week.
Eight hours a day are being spent
In intensive military training. On
Monday instruction was given in
range and gallery practice and in
signalling. During the rest of the
week the time will be devoted to
patrolling, road sketching, tactical
walks, platoon and extended order
drill, batallion drill, ceremonies and
bayonet drill. On Friday a march
to Moscow. Idaho, will be conducted
and. if practicable, a sham battle
will be arranged with the cadets
from the University of Idaho.
There are* about 6."0 men regu
larly enrolled in the cadet corps and
this number has been greatly aug
mented during the past two weeks
by the entrance of many iipperclass
men and faculty members. The in
struction is in the bands of five
United States army officers. The
annual government inspection will
come on Monday, April 30, inimedi
Htely following the encampment.
PLAIN QUESTIONS TO
PULLMAN PEOPLE
Every Pullman Reader Will Admit
the Soundness of the Logic
Would Pullman people recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills as they di if the
medicine were not reliable? Would
they confirm their statements after
years have elapsed if their experi
ences did not show the remedy to be
deserving of it? Statements like the
following must carry conviction to
the mind of every reader:
Mrs. R. A. Emerson, 1211 Star
Route St., Pullman, says: "I suf
fered a great deal from a dull pain
across the small of my back. I felt
tired all the time and had but little
ambition. My kidneys acted irregu
larly and caused me much annoy
ance. Doan's Kidney Pills proved
very beneficial." (Statement given
April 21, 1910.)
A Later Endorsement
On July 5, 1916, Mrs. Emerson
added: "I am Just as strong in my
praise of Doan's Kidney Pills now as
I was when I previously endorsed
them. They never fall to give me
prompt relief when I use them."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply Ask for "a kidney remedy—
get Doan's Kidney Pills— the same
tbe Mrs. Emerson has twice publicly
recommended. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
Cheap Shoes
fllave always been high.
We have the
Walk-Over
CI 1 •
lorsheim
At only a little raise.
At the high price of
leal her it pays to buy
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Men's Outfitters
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We lire new here, bill not at, the busi
ness.
The selection of .jewelry demands ex
pari knowledge, good judgment, and
laste. Good intentions will not suffice.
Those who buy at 1 his store may feel
. . sure they are getting the benefits of
such knowledge, both in selections of
fered and advice, which is part of our
service.
Will you mil call, examine our com
plete slock ami gel acquainted?
McPHAIL
Jeweler
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