THE, IREIGATION AGE. 



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for the third crop and the lowest for the 

 second. 



16. The average annual beef product 

 from earl}- cut alfalfa was 705.61 pounds 

 per acre; it required 9,575 pounds of 

 timothy to produce an equal weight ; 11.967 

 pounds of red clover, and 10,083 pounds of 

 shredded corn fodder. 



A LARGE CROP. 



Returns made on the onion crop of the 

 United St.ites this year show that in what 

 is known as the commercial onion districts, 

 the total yield will be 4.368,000 bushels, 

 against 3,280,000 bushels last year. The 

 crop as a whole has cured well, and there 

 is a prospect that dealers will enter the 

 Winter with liberal supplies of fine stock. 

 This, according to the trade here, is in de- 

 cided contrast with last year when much of 

 the crop was inferior, and farmers and 

 dealers lost heavily through rot during the 

 late Autumn and Winter. 



A good many onions are moving, and 

 farmers show a very general disposition to 

 sell. They believe it is better to accept 

 tiie present relatively low prices and clean 

 up their bigcr-ips than to hold indefinitely 

 with the practical assurance of shrinkage 

 in bulk and deterioration in quality and 

 possibly continued low prices. 



The imports during the season of 1898- 

 99 amounted to 771,960 bushels, against 

 488^53 bushels in the preceding season. 

 The exports last season reached a total of 

 16UH)2 bushels, against 100,148 bushels 

 in 1897-98. 



FORESTRY INSPECTION IN CANADA. 



Washington, Oct. 5 (Special). The De- 

 partment of State has received the follow- 

 ing from commercial agent Beutelspacher 

 at Moncton: 



"An inspector of timber has been created 

 by the Dominion Government. With the 

 view of preserving the remaining forests 

 upon Dominion lands and Indian reserves 

 from utter destruction by fires and other 

 destructive agencies, and of encouraging 



the reproduction of forest trees and also as 

 settlement is rapidly progressing in all 

 parts of Manitoba and the Northwest Ter- 

 ritory, with the object of making an im- 

 mediate inspection of the country, to as- 

 certain what tracts should be set apart for 

 timber reserves before they are encroached 

 upon by settlers, the position of Chief In- 

 spector of Timber and Forestry has been 

 cieated. The headquarters of the inspector 

 will be at Ottawa and his salary will be 

 $2,500 per annum." 



MISSOURI'S CORN CROP. 



There is a phase of corn production in 

 Missouri which is not generally appreci- 

 ated. This State used to furnish a very 

 large amount of corn for outside consump- 

 tion. It figured conspicuously in the five 

 or six corn surplus States. But while corn 

 crops have been growing in the aggregate, 

 Missouri has b en selling less and less corn. 

 Last year the corn crop of Mi>souri was 

 190,000,000 bushels. It is a matter for 

 marvel that Missouri is credited with the 

 selling to the rest of the world only 5,786.- 

 395 bushels of that enormous crop. That 

 corn brought $1,796.882. 



The crop of flaxseel in the State for that 

 year came to almost as much. Missouri 

 marketed last year cotton to an amount 

 within $500,000 of the value of the corn 

 sold. The eggs of Missouri hens last year 

 supplied the homes of farmers and yielded 

 besides $3.333,533, twice as much as the 

 corn brought. The chickens which were 

 shipped away after home contraption 

 yielded $4,905,609. about three .times as 

 much as the surplus corn. 



These comparative figures are impressive. 

 They lead up to ihe interesting question: 

 What becomes of Missouri's 200,000,000 

 bushels iF corn ? 



In just two items of the States surplus 

 for last year is fnund the answer, and it is 

 gratifying in a high degiee. Thet-e two 

 items were. 



Head. A'alue. 



Cattle 9 1 1 . 725 $3-1 ,964.654 



Hogs 3,612,636 36.278.500 



