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SOUTHERN STATES CORN CROP.
Thirteen Southern States which in
1911 raised 863,370,000 bushels of corn
raised 1,079,050,000 'bushels in 1912. an
increase of 215.6S0.000 bushels, or at the
rate of 24.9 per cent. The comparison
of tbe two years by States is made in
the following table:
1911. 1912.
Alabama 54,000,000 63,664,000
Arkansas, .... 49,712,000 52,163,000
Georgia 59,072,000 54,510,000
Kentucky 93,600,000 109,440,000
Louisiana 33,300,000 33,815,000
Mississippi, ... 54,150,000 56,840,000
Missouri 192,400,000 243,904,000
North Carolina, 49,680,000 51,106,000
Oklahoma 36,888,000 101,878,000
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Tennessee 91,120,000 86,632,000
Texas 69.350,000 153,300,000
Virginia 47,520,000 47,520,000
Total 863,370,000 1.079,050,000
U. S 2,531,48',900 3,169,137,000
According to these figures, which are
preliminary, there were slight reductions
in production in three of these
States aggregating 9,392,000 bushels,
and the great increases were in Missouri,
51,504,000 bushels; Oklahoma,
64,900,000 bushels, and Texas, 33,950.000
bushels. In all of those States in
1911 the crop was very small, owing almost
to unprecedented weather conditions,
especially in Texas and Oklahoma.
Even this VMr. with Itn mrn-n
than 100,000,OOO-bushel crop, Oklahoma
raised only an average of 18.7 bushels
per acre, while the average for the past
ten years was 23 bushels. All the other
thirteen States, except Arkansas and
I.oulslana, had an acre production above
the acre production of the past ten
years, though Arkansas was but onetenth
of a bushel short and Louisiana's
average showed no change. The rate of
Increase for these thirteen Southern
States was slightly less than the rate
of Increase In the rest of the country,
which was 2R.3 per cent., the increase
outside the South being from 1,688,118.000
to 2,090,087,000 bushels, or 421,969,
000 bushels. Of that Increase Iowa supplied
126,071,000 bushels; Illinois, 93.502,
bushels; Kansas, 74,211,000 'bushels,
and Nebraska, 33,425.000 bushels.
Tt Is Interesting to note that Tennessee
lri 1912 raised 1,657,000 bushels more
thnn Minnesota, and that Missouri raised
43,550,000 more bushels than Indiana.
BETTER FINANCE FOR FARMERS.
Ambassador Myron T. Herrlck, in a
recent interview, said the adoption of
a land credit system in this country
would be a boon to the American farmer
and would make possible better agricultural
methods and prove a potential
factor in lowering commodity costs.
"American agriculture offers as good
guarantee for financial aid as do
American Industry and commerce," said
Ambassador Herrlck. "The aim of the
present proposal for a land credit system
is to open the money market to
the farmer on an equal footing with the
business man or the manufacturer."
The ability to borrow adequate capital
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years with an amortization scheme,
automatically extinguishing the loan
when the time has expired, Mr. Herrick
said, was necessary to the development
of agriculture beyond Ps present stage.
"Public attention In America," continued
Mr. Herrlck. "has been tnA btpIub.
ively devoted to fostering Infant Industries.
The result has been that while
owing to the growth of population the
demand for agricultural produce Is Increasing
60 per cent., the supply Is only
Increasing 36 per cent. If this state of
affairs continue America In a decade
will become a food purchasing nation
THE FBESBYTESI/
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This ought not to arise. Japan illustrates
the possibilities of agriculture.
Its area is smaller than that of California
and only one-sixth of it is capable
of agricultural cultivation, owing
to its volcanic nature, yet Japan supports
50,000,000 people. The possibilities
of the Americans are practically
unlimited. Their immense natural resources
could supply the whole world
with foodstuffs."
FOREIGN TRADE WAS BRISK.
Imports and exports of the. foreign
trade of the United States for 1912 will
pass those of any previous year, according
to figures compiled by the statistical
division of the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce. Eleven months'
figures indicate that the imports of the
year will approximate $l,s00,000,000,
against $1,563,000,000 in the former high
record year for imports 1910, and that
the exports will approximate $2,400,000,000
against $2,093,000,000 in the
former high record year for exports,
1911. The increase in imports occurred
especially in manufacturers' raw materials.
On the export side the increase
oeourred chieflly in cotton, wheat and
manufactures, -while food stuffs, other
than wheat, show a further decline.
COXSriRATORS FOUXD GUILTY.
Arraigned October 1 on indictments
charging them with conspiracy to transport
dynamite, nitroglycerin and other
explosives on railroad trains in violation
of the United States laws, pleading
not guilty and entering on trial, in
which more than twenty violations of
the law were proved, and 105 explosions
shown to have resulted from such conspiracy,
the Jury on December 28, returned
a verdict finding thirty-eight
members of the International Association
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Workers guilty as charged In the Indictments.
Included in the verdict are
men from every section of the United
States. From Massachusetts, from
California, from Louisiana, from the .
Canadian border and from many cities
scattered within these bounds, came
tihe men against whom the government
in its prosecution bad won an overwhelming
victory.
THK JAPANESE WAT.
New light of a surprising kind will be
thrown on the negotiations preceding
the close of the Russo-Japanese War in
a series of papers now in preparation
by Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt.
The papers, whloh will be published in
a magazine, will be in the form of an
autobiography. Naturally this will be
devoted in large measure to the private
side of public events, and one chapter
will tell interesting things about the
Portsmouth peace conference between
the Russian and Japanese diplomats.
It has long been known that the war
brought Japan almost to the verge of
bankruptcy, but the general opinion has
prevailed that after the severe rtefeAt?
at Port Arthur and along the Yalu River
It was the Russians who eued for peace.
But, as Colonel Roosevelt will tell the
story, It was the victorious Japanese
who took the first step to end the war.
The offer of this government to assist in
terminating hostilities came not on the
ruggestion of Russia, hut at the direct
roQuest of Japan. Colonel Roosevelt
has at his disposal documentary proof
of his account of the peace negotiations.
Most striking or the papers that he will
bring forward Is a personal letter from
the late Mikado to President Roosevelt
asking him to open a way for peace negotiations.
The text of this letter will
be printed in the Portsmouth chapter
and is expected to produce a sensation
IN OF THE SOUTH
t Events
in Japan. It is recalled that the terms
finallv flPPftntPd hr Torwiii Kl ..
reseated by the Japanese people, and it
is thought that the publication now of
a letter from the Mikado almost interceding
for peace will revive old feeling
against the government, If not against
the throne. During the Russian War
*Baron Kogoro Takahira was Japanese
minister to the United States, and he
became one of the Japanese peace envoys
to the Portsmouth conference.
Persumably he presented the Bmporor's
letter to President Roosevelt that
brought about the conference. On the
conclusion of peace the Japanese legation
here was raised to the rank of an
embassy, and Viscount Aoki came from
Berlin as the first Japanese ambassador.
I)i official circles there has lone
been a story?never before published?
that the viscount's most important mission
to Washington was the recovery
of the text of the Emperor's letter to
President Roosevelt. In that purpose, .
however, he failed.
OUB GOLD.
A steel-ribbed, indestructible, fivestory
vault, sunk in the earth beneath
the United States assay office in New
York and capable of holding $2,000,000,000
in gold, is planned by Secretary
MacVeagh of the treasury department.
If authorized the big vault will be
erected under the proposed new front
portion of the assay office. It will sf
$322,000, while the building standing
over it will cost only $225,000. Gold
bullion, turned into bars, will be piled
in the structure like bricks. While this
storehouse could hold all the government's
gold at the present time, it is not
the intention to amass it in New York,
but to reserve the space for future
hoardings.
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