BETTER CROPS THIS YEAR
Better Crops This Year THE month of September was, on the whole, favorable for maturing and harvesting crops in the United States, as a result of which the expectation of yields increase 1.4 per...
...Working capital spells opportunity for the farmer just as truly as for any other business man...
...The total wheat production comes within 8,000,000 bushels of reaching 900,000,000 bushels...
...Opportunity today in all businesses rests squarely upon working capital...
...In the article printed on this page he tells how Wisconsin is adapting the German cooperative credit association to the needs of the farmers of this state.—EDITOR'S NOTE...
...The conditions on October 1 and since then have been favorable for its maturity...
...It is not because we are a luxury loving people that the spell of the frontier is broken...
...This is the general summary of crop conditions issued by the United States Department of Agriculture on October 16...
...The one best way to make country life attractive is to make it profitable...
...The total production of all cereals, based upon condition October 1, will be about 126,760,000 tons as compared with 115,699,000 tons last year...
...Last year's crop of 763,000,000 bushels was the record production to that time...
...Nor is the loneliness of country life chiefly to blame for the exodus of country youth to the great cities...
...Nothing less than adequate working capital can make farming pay...
...If he can not get it, and on favorable terms, his interest must certainly be turned away from farming...
...on October 1 (or the time of harvest) the composite condition of all crops was 99.3 per cent, of average conditions, indicating 6.4 per cent, better yields than last year when production was below average...
...It is not the physical hardship of farming that drives country boys to the city...
...Better Crops This Year THE month of September was, on the whole, favorable for maturing and harvesting crops in the United States, as a result of which the expectation of yields increase 1.4 per cent...
...The October 1 forecast of the corn crop was higher than the September 1 forecast by 78,000,000 bushels...
...Powell, who is assistant eecretary of the State Board of Public Affairs, described the land mortgage association and its place in the new Wisconsin system of rural credit...
...It is primarily because pioneering has been stripped of opportunity...
...it is probable, therefore, that the production this year will not be far from 2,700,000,000 bushels as compared with 2,447,000,-000 last year, 3,126,000,000 in the record year of 1912 and 2,708,000,000, the average of the past five years...
...In the article, "Easier Money for the Farmer," printed in the last number of LA FOLLETTE'S, Mr...
...less damage from frost than usual has occurred...
Vol. 6 • December 1914 • No. 46
