Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1913)
THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NEWS OF IHE WEEK CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER on LE8SKR IMPORTNCE. A OF EVENTS National, Political, Personal and Othor Matter In Brief Form for All Classes of Renders. WASHINGTON. According to Stato Geologist R. C. Allen of MIchlgnn, that Btato may coaso to be a coal producing Btato within fifteen years. Tho commission of flvo appointed by Uio French government to select a Bito at tho Panama-Pacific exposi tion has been recolved by Prosidont Wilson and Secretary Bryan. President Wilson's nrwilly will cioso tho "summer White- houso" at Cornish on Octobor 15 and roturn to Washing ton. Had tho currency situation been loss acute, Mrs. Wilson and her daughters would have romaincd hero until later, being Joined by tho presi dent for a brlof vacation. Fatalities in tho coal mlnos of tho "United StatcB during tho first seven months of tho year numbered 1,137, as compared , with 1,419 in tho samo porlod last year, according to reports to tho bureau of mines. Argontina Is about to secure tho uorvicoB of two agricultural exports from this country. They aro Dr. A. D. Molvin, who has boon chief of tho bureau of animal Industry since 1005, and Wlllot M. Hays, former assistant of agriculture. On tho hools of tho failure of con gress to logislato in tho tariff bill to prevent gambling In cotton futures, Representative Harrison of Mississippi Introduced a resolution providing for an international campulgn against such speculation. Secretary McAdoo haB called a con ference of collectors of customs to bo hold at Now York beginning Novem ber 3, to consider improved mothods In oustomB administration. In thu Interest of economy and ofllciency It Is expected that tho conforonco will recommend sweeping reforms. From tho north and from tho south Secretary McAdoo rocelvod contribu tions to tho federal treasury from conscious-stricken cltlzons. An unknown resident of Portsmouth, N. H., sent $1, which ho said he "thought" ho owed tho United States, and a citizen of Birmingham, Ala., anonymously llkowlso contributed $319. Surounded by tho loadors of a uni ted democracy, President Wilson (signed tho Underwood-Simmons tariff bill. Simultaneously telegrams wore sent to customs collators throughout tho country by tho treasury depart ment, putting into actual operation tho first democratic tariff revision Blnco 1894. Democrats of tho sonato wroto Into tho urgent dollclency appropriation bill a provision oxompting from the classified civil sorvlco all doputy Uni ted States Internal revenue collectors and all doputy marshals. To repub licans have denounced tho provision an "an outrago on tho civil service eyBtein." ' President Wilson has romovod Judge Cornollus D. Murano, Unltod StatoB district judgo at Nome, AlaBka. Attor ney General McReynoldB, by direction of tho president, roquostod tho resig nation of Judge Murnno sovornl weoka ago and tho latter refused to resign until next Juno. This resulted In tho president's Bummary action. DOMESTIC. Tho prlco of all standard grades of granulated sugar has been reduced 35 points and 1b now 4.45 polntB per ' pound. Waltor Johnson, who Is loading all pitchers In tho major leagueB has elgnod a contract with Managor Grif fith of tho Washington team for tho 1914 season. Tho salary wub not an nounced, but It Is understood to be 112,500. Miss Harriet Otis Croft, a Boston bachelor maid who died abroad last summer loft one of a $1,000,000 es tate to public churltlcs In her uatlvo city. Six dynamlto bombs wnro thrown into tho, stockade surrounding the Mit choll mino company's property near Lafayette, Colo. Tho bombs struck tho rear of a company boarding house, domollshins It While her two hUBbands aro war Ting in tho Lob Angeles probate court over tho 17,000,000 OBtato of Mrs. Ar cadia Do Baker, who dlod suveral months ago, a grandnloco Mrs. Ar cadia Bandlnt Breunau, illod a suit claiming that all other claimants bo enjoined from asserting any right to It. , 'After a rifle battle with several cltl rohq recently n band of robbers, who had looted tho vaults In tho First Btato bank ut Dardanello, Ark., eacnp cd. Their loot amounted to suveral thousand dollars. Minneapolis now has a 70-cont rato on gas. ' Twelve thousand street signs of an ornamented brncket pattern are lying at streot intersections In Chicago. Mrs. Anna M. Union, aged 91, has taught In Sunday shool in Belvldoro, N. J., snvontyclght yoars and is still at. It A medal which was lost July 4, 18C2, on tho battlefield of Gettysburg lias just been returned to Its owner, John Earley, of Nashua, N. Y., a veteran of tho Tenth Now Hampshire volun teers. FIro broke out. In Plymouth church, Brooklyn, causing $5,000 damago. Tho church is one of the most 'famous in greater New York and its pulpit waB onco occupied by Henry Ward Beecher. Albert Chittenden of Murlon, Ky. while hunting recently found a purse containing bills which he lost two and a half yearn ago. The bills wore at most ducuyod and hardly lasted long enough to ho redeomod by the United States treasury ofllce. F. W. Folton of Topeka won first prlzo In tho ombroidery contest at tho Kansas Btato fair. Pieces of erqulBltb neodlevvork were entered in tho con test by 1,07.1 women, but Mr. Folton s dainty centerpleco won tho favor ol all tho judges. A cablo messago from London re ports that tho Pacific mall liner Man churla, returning from the orient tc San Francco, put into Hong Konfe Bllghtly damaged' by tiro which broke out in the hold shortly after leaving Nagusakl September 30. Mino guards and othor employes ol tho Ammook mining company, u sub sldlary of the Calumet and Hecla lu tho Kowoonaw county copper strike district, may no longer carry concealed weapons. The blunket llconso Issued by tho couuty authorities giving thai right to the company hus been ro voked. MIsb Clara B. Laughin, tho Ameri can novelist says that American wo men can not conceive of tho English working women. Tho shop girls, for Instanco, lodged by their employers, aro herded like Bheep and fed tho poorest food. Tho American girls would not tolorato such conditions, sho Bays. Mrs. G. H. Fobs, aged 45 of Palo Alto, Cal., who haB refused food slxty ono days and has lived on a water dlot during that time, continues to re sist all orforta to administer Busten unco. Tho physicians nscribo hor acts to melancholia and predict her death in a short time. Mrs Fobs has becamo greatly emaciated. An increase in criino in Boston is shown by tho estimate of a now rec ord in tho number of cases handled by tho municipal court In a year. For tho year ended September 30 the total was 50,200, nB compared with 40,700 in tho previous yoar. Tho In crease was most marked In drunken nosB and automobile lalw vloatlous. Amalgamation of all the temperanco forces of the contry into one organiza tion, an educational campaign and a campaign for constitutional prohlbl tlon are tho chief alms set forth In tho formal call iBued by tho council of ono hundred for tho meeting of the tompornnco forces In national conven tion In Columbus, Ohio on Novomber 14. FOREIGN. Absolutely no damago was done to tho structures of tho Panama canal by tho earthquake whluh occurrod In tho canal zone N recently. A sound-proof Iioubo lu Berlin has fifty rooms, and a musician may prac tice in any ono of them without In terfering with his neighbor Prince Louis Phllllppo, duke of Or leans, and pretender to tho French throno la travelling Incognito uudor tho title of the Count Do Vllllers. Tho Canadian cabinet Is oxpectod to tako up tho question of admitting grain from tho United Status froo of duty ut tho seslon of Parliament which opeim early in January. Rusian figures place tho average number of occupunts of a houso at olght In London, forty-eight in Vlonna, llfty in Berlin and llfty-two in Moscow and St Petersburg. An utter doadlock apparently exist ed lu the negotiations for placing Prince Ernest AugUBt of Cumberland and his bride, Princess Victoria Loulso of Prussia on tho throno of Brunswick, and tho Emperor William may bo disappointed In his hope of seeing hid only daughter tho wife of a reigning sovereign. King Gustav of Swcdon 1b suffering from tho offocts of an oporatlon for nppondlcltlB performed in 1910 and has boon obliged to tako to his bed at Skaborsjoo castlo to undergo special treatment Tho health of Princess Augustluo Victoria of Hohonzollora wife of Former King Manuel of Portugal, Is Improving so rapidly that she and her husband will soon be ablo to under tako tho journey to Stgmarlngon and London, planned bofore her lllueas. PREDIGTEARLY END MEXICAN OFFICIAL8 HOPEFUL OF WAR'S END. ELECTION MAY BE POSTPONED Bill Has Been Introduced In Chamber of Deputies, But Docs Not OF TERMINATING WAR. Mexico City, Mox. Government of ficials regard tho fcdoral successes in the last week as ''a deathblow to tho organized revolution In tho north." Tho defeat of tho rebels at Santa Fosalla nppoare to bo confirmed. Ad vices from Gonoral' Samuel E. Mor1 cado, military governor of tho stato of Chlhauhua to the department of tho intorlor, describes tho result as a rout of the enomy. Several thousand men were Bald to bo engaged at Santa Posalia, and lighting had been in progress for a week. ThlB victory, together with tho oc cupation by General Alans of Sablnos .on his march to Picdras Negras, has greatly encouraged tho war depart ment officials. Tezlutlan, In tho state of Puebla, still is besieged by tho Indians, but foreigners and non-combatants havo boon allowed to leave tho town, reach ing Puebla safely undor federal es cort Raiding, pillaging and burning of ranches continuo In various parts of Puebla and Morolos. Tho efforts of tho rebols in San Luis Potosl, Coa hulla and Neuvoleon aro confirmed to tho cutting of railroads and tho raiding of small towns. Fredorlco Gamboa, tho nominee of tho Catholic party for tho presidency, Manuel Calero, tho liberal candldato and followers of Gonoral Felix Diaz aro pushing tho work of organization for the elections on October 26. Tho bill for 'the postponement of tho elec tions, howover, is due to como before tho chambor of doputles this week. Tho question of the constitutionality of tho measure is said to havo cre ated a division of committee, to which It was roforrcd recontly upon Its introduction in the chambor. In political circles tho defeat of tho measure Is regarded aB likely. To Reopen Negotiations. Toklo. -Tho newspaper J1J1 Shim po sayB that negotiations shortly aro to be reopened with tho Unltod States in the matter of tho California allon land act "Japan," says the paper, "desiring to reach a fundamental solution of tho California question and finding tho acquisition of naturalization tor. Japanese la California most difficult is about to propoBO a now treaty with tho United States. Formal nego tiations, which havo been delayod on account of Washington's preoccupa tion with tho Mexican trouble and tho tariff bill, will bo begun at an oarly date" Sulzer Counsel Will Proceed. Albany, N. Y. Out of the mass of rumors, denials and contradictions regarding tho Sulzer impeachment trial thoro came this one confirmed pleco of news counsel for the gov ernor will bo ready to prdcoed with their caso when court convenes. No further adjournment will bo asked, Senator Harvey D. Hlnraan will mako tho opening statement and, perhaps, tho llrst witness, Louis A. Sarocky, tho governor's former campaign sec retary, will bo callod bofore court ad Jouin8. A final conference between the governor nnjl his counsel was held. No Information aout what took place was given out. Socialists Vote to Defy Court Seattlo, Wash. Tho stato oxecutlvo cominlttoo of the socialist party mot and decided to violate tho injunction of Suporlor Judgo K. Huinphrlos, for bidding speaking on Plko-Wost Lake square; appointed a managor to luui dlo tho campaign and appropriated tnonoy to carry It on. It was stated that several meetings would bo hold la tho forbidden square. Diaz Wll' Return. Biarritz. Gonoral Porilrlo Diaz, ox presldout of Mexico, is Btlll at Biar ritz. It is stated that ho probably would roturn to Mexico towards tho end of the month. Recently ho was Bummonodhomo by tho Mexican War department for sorvlco In tho army. Fllos With Head Downward. Lllllo, France. Lieutenant Poulot of tho French army flying corps fol lowed tho uxamplo of tho airmen Po goud by Hying head downward for Boverul socouds in his aeroplane. Powder House Is Blown Up. Trinidad, Col. The power houso of tho PrlmroBo mine at Rugby, thirty miles north of here, In Huerfano coun ty, tho southern coal Holds strike dis trict, was blown up, according to moagor report that roachod horo. No fatalities aro given. Admiral Soon to Retire. Washington. Roar Admiral Aaron Ward, at present on duty as supor vlBor of tho port of Now York, was detachod from duty and ordered homo, preliminary to his retirement NEWS FROM STATE HOUSE Vorty-Boven girls are enrolled in the physical education department of the Btato university this year, an lncrcaso of twonty-ono over last year's enrollment Joseph Roberts of Fremont, first vice-president of tho stato board of agriculturewlll succeed the late T. W. Haws of Mlnden us president of that body. Thomas Riley of Omaha has bpon appointed by the governor as stato bank examiner, succeeding Eugeno Mooro of St. Paul, who resigned some time ago. Dirt will fly, weeds will tall and cul verts will bo leveled to tho earth, or the earth will be brought up to tho qulverts October 9 and 10 If half the men turn out who have promised to observo Governor Morohead's good roads proclamation. Tho stato's motion for a rehearing In tho William Flcge case waB over ruled by tho oupremo court and tho suit will again be tried In the lower court, making a third trial for tho de fendant, who was onco sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of his sister on a Dixon county farm. Tho opening of tho buttorino Beason was signalized Wednesday by the ap plication of elghty-ono firms for tho food commissioner's permission to Bell that product In this state. Previously about 200 Arms had been granted tho Bamo privilege under tho existing law. Total receipts from this class of per mits havo amounted to $2,607 since July 1. Building and loan associations of Nebraska are in flourishing condition, according to the annual summary of their business made by tho stato bank ing department from reports it has gathered. Tholr assets under dato of Juno 30, 1913, nre shown to be in the neighborhood of $33,000,000, tho gain being almost $4,000,000 over tho previ ous year. Internal Revenue , Collector Ross L. Hammond has made an estimate of tho number of incomes in Nebraska that will como within tho provisions of the income tax law. Ho puts the number between 5,000 and 6,000. To come within tho law an income must be $3,000, with a possible allowanco of an additional $2,000 for a wife and two dependent children. Tho monument marking tho Oregon trail at tho point where tho trail en tered tho state of Nebraska will bo formally dedicated soon, though the date has not been set since it was postponed on account of the weather. Tho location of tho monument is two miles west of tho town of Lanham, Nebraska, at tho point where the lino between Jefferson and Gage counties Intersects the Kansas state line. Nebraska wheat has found a new output for milling purposes. Owing to its excellence, for several years It haB been n favorite grain with tho Minnesota mlllerB, where It has been mixed with tho northern wheat, mak ing the best flour in the world. Now Nebraska wheat Is going to Kansas, whore, by the millers of that state, It is being mixed with the softer wheat grown there, thus grading it up and making a superior quality of flour. Tho material for a passenger ele vator in tho state house has arrived and workmen havo started construc tion. Tho old car, which was used more than twenty years ago, will be equipped with electric lights and olec trlc power and now cables and run ways will bo put In the Bhaft There aro two 'old shafts In the state house, but only ono will bo refitted for use. The oighteon rooms bolng fitted up In tho fourth floor of the attic will bo roady for uso within ono week. The stato food, drug, dairy nnd oil commission, under the supervision of Commissioner Harman, mado 1,743 in spections during tho month of August. It nlso issued '354 sanitary orders, filed nineteen complaints, conducted two prosecutions and made 196 chem ical analyses. The collections of the department for the month aggregated $7,721.62. Of that amount $5,863.43 was for oil, $599.67 for permits issued, $245.70 for stock food tags, and $4.50 for seed analyses. To inaugurate tho initiative and referendum In Nobraska next year will cost the state not less than $15,000, and possibly as high as $25,000. The expense cannot be accurately esti mated until It la known how many propositions will be submitted and voted upon, but If only tho three or four now In, sight arc placed before tho voters It will entail a minimum outlay of $15,000 from tho state treasury. Tho village of Spraguo has been in corporated. Governor Morohead addressed tho convicts at the state penitentiary at chapel service, Sunday. Ho talked on good citizenship and delivered a mes sage of hope to Jho men who will have to mako a new start in life on leaving tho prison walls. National guardsmen who are to compote In the state rifle shoot to bo held on the government range at Platt8mouth will report tothe ofTlcer in chargo during the forenoon of Oc tober 6, according to orders Issued by General Hall. STANDS T WIS WILL WITHSTAND HOT WINDS AND DROUTH. GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL Items of Interest Gathered from Re liable Sources and Presented In Condensed Form to Our Readers. Discovery of corn that will with stand hot winds and grow despite of drouth Is bollovcd to havo been mado by Curator M, R. Gllmore of the stato museum as a result of experiments conducted on the advice of an Indian tribe which formerly lived in this state. Tho seeds for the corn were sent to Mr. Gllmore by Sitting Bear of tho Arikara tribe, now in Wiscon sin. Tho local man planted the corn in Juno and left it to Its own re sources. There were no rains to help It along In, Its growth, but while plants and vegetables around it were withering up this corn flourished and ripened. Its hardness and tendency to grow without moisture and general adaptability to Neb'ruska conditions such as prevailed In many sections during the season just closing, are looked upon as points that will com mend it to the average Nebraska farmer. Federal corn experts havo become Interested In the plant and state authorities will also- look Into tho matter. It is likely that a bulletin will bo put out on the subject within a short time. Marked Success of Dairy Train. Nothing In tho way of a promotion and educational train has ever trav eled over Nebraska with such marked success as the state dairy train. The train has taken to tho people of north ern and western Nebraska practical Illustrations of the possibilities of farm development, and Increase in farm profits to come through increased milk and dairy production. In the two weeks that the train has been on the road fully 40,000 farmers havo heard the practical lecture talks, have seen the cow demonstrations, have passed through the exhibit cars and returned to their farms with now and practical Ideas, not given them in the spirit of dictation or Interference, but simply given them as the results of practical experience in other places and showing the practical way to work out problems in the dairy Inter ests at their own homes. Tuberculosis In State Cattle. Dr. Klgln, state veterinarian, has completed an inspection and test of dairy cattle at the Hastings asylum for tuberculosis. He found forty seven tuborculars out of 120 hoad tested. In order to demonstrate tho ravages of tuberculosis he dissected rthe carcass of one .animal, which proved to be affected throughout tho entire system. The animals that show signs of tho disease will be sold sub ject to inspection, after they are slaughtered. Where the disease is local tho meat 1b approved for sale as food. Dr. Klgln reports the stablo at the Hastings asylum in very poor con dition from a sanitary" standpoint It is poorly lighted and badly ventilated and has been crowded most of the time. He heartily approves the plan of tho board of control to build a new up-to-dato sanitary dairy barn. Dr. Klgln killed two more glandered horses at Mlnden. Five were killed thoro recently, but he does not expect the disease to appear again in the same locality. Must Not Overtest Cream. If a buyer of cream desires to raise his price and outbid a rival for busi ness he will in the future bo com pelled to openly announce that he will pay more than his competitors instead of trying to get business by over-testing cream and in this manner pay more than his rival and at tho same tlmo make producers believe his rival is making an unfair test. It Is against tho state law to overtest or to under test cream bought for commercial pur poses. This law is upheld by a de cision given by the supremo court In tho case of tho State vs. Thorp, from Cuming county. Another result of the decision is that Nols P. Hansen of Lincoln, formerly stato food commis sioner, will not havo to pay $50,000 damages 'to Thorp. What Is believed to be the shortest brief on record has Just been filed by Assistant Attorney General Edgerton In a case bofore the Nebraska supremo court The brief contains twenty-three lines, not counting signatures and tho date line. A quarterly magazine will bo pub lished by tho Mississippi Valley His torical society, tho first issue to ap pear In December. Tho Nebraska His torical society Is one of the guaran tors of tho magazine and Secretary Paine Is its Becretary-treasurer. Bank Deposits Reach High Mark. Nebraska state bank deposits reached tho highest amount ever bo fore kuown in Nebraska during the quarter ending August 26, according to tho consolidated report of the stato banks, Just compiled by tho state banking board. The total is $94,194, 166.83. or an increaso of $6,603,716.45 over that of the previous quarter. The total number of depositors was 290,370. Tho number of banks reporting Is 710, with deposits of $94,194,166.83, and an average reserve of 30 per cent. Loans havo Increased $7,834,000 BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Dlller boasts of having the best Toads In the state. Tho magnificent $30,000 athletic park at Beatrice was dedicated last wcok. York will compel Infractors of tho city ordinances to work on the Btreots horcafter. The Stato band of Lincoln will fur nish music for tho Seward festival,. October 8. J. W. Dodd, a Falrbury laborer, fell whHo pushing a wheelbarrow and bit off his tongue. Mrs. R. J. Woodworth of Wnhoo suf fered a broken wrist when she fell off tho porch nt her home. MIsb Alice Cleaver of Falls City Is soon to start for Paris to spend the year studying painting. Marie Strauch, three years old, was. burnod to death at Lincoln when her clothing caught on fire. Rolland Scott, of Alliance, suffered a. broken limb in a football practice game at Hastings college. Thomas O'Gorman, coroner of Hall county, was fatally injured in an auto accident near Wood River. J. L. Slocum has sold the apples In. his twenty-acre orchard near Shubert to StJoseph buyers for $1,700. Mrs. Mary Flynn, 81 years old, was, found dead in bed at Seward by rela tives who had called to visit her. , Tho Iowa-Nebraska Public Service corporation at Norfolk has been ad Judged a bankrupt In federal court. Frank Worthlngton, a Beatrice boy, was killed at a fire at Billings, Mont, by being run over by a hose truck. Attorney Henry Nunn of St. Paul, who accidentally shot himself in the foot while hunting, died from blood, poisoning. Prizes of $30, $20 and $10 are offered at the German day celebration at Lin coln for out-of-town clubs marching in. the parade. James Bratunek found a wallet con taining $900 on a Union Pacific train near Grand Island. It belonged to a. cigar man. One hundred out of a herd of 30O sheep owned by John Welnert, a Rich ardson county farmer, were poisoned by corn fodder. A musical fostlval will bo held In Seward, October 8, under tho. direction of the commercial club and business men's association. Tho commercial lighting ordinance was passed by tho Lincoln city com mission without a dissenting vote and without comment Tho splendid new St. Llbory Catho lic church, costing $65,000, 1b nearlng completion and will bo dedicated some time in November. A vicious dog attacked a six-year-old girl at Falrbury, and tore several bad gashes in her face and arms be fore it was beaten off. Many of the Nebraska booster edi tions issued throughout the state were a credit to the publishers and tho offices putting them out. James Weeks accidentally shot off two of his fingers and a portion of his left hand while hunting ducks on the Elkhorn river near Neligh. Frank Manlcy, a conductor on the Union Pacific, was held up in the resi dence portion of Grand Island and re- lleved of a diamond ring. Probably the oldest man In the state is Thomas Morris of Custer county, who was born at Berrew, North Wales, in 1794, nearly 120 years ago. Bert Marts, the Rock Island brake man who was shot and killed by a tramp at Llmon, Colo., was a Falls City boy, the son of Sam Marts, the chief of police In that city. Abraham NIcholB, a peddler, was Instantly killed Wednesday morning when a Burlington passenger train struck his buggy at the main crossing of Burnham, near Lincoln. Sylvia Kramer of Syracuse was probably fatally burned and the fam ily home demolished by the explosion of a gasoline lighting plant resulting from a visit to tho cellar with a light ed lantern. William F. Kelley, a Lincoln attor ney, has been appointed confidential secretary to Secretary of State Bryan, and has gone to Washington to as sume his duties. The dedication ceremonies for the Oregon trail monument located on the-Kansns-Nebraska state line, near Lan ham, have been indefinitely postponed owing to weather conditions. Harvey Livingston, a Lincoln boy, was badly wounded on a hunting trip Sunday when a shotgun was accident ally discharged by a companion, tho load taking effect three Inches above the knee. Many farmers in Hall county aro putting In small Irrigation plants of their own, using large wells supplied with centrifugal pumas and dyking the fields. Members of tho cadet band of tho Omaha high school are on strike on account of the efforts of four colored boys to become members of the or ganization. The last Sunday in October was designated "Wesleyan Unlvorsfty day" by the M. E. conference, and collec tions for the support of the collie will be taken in all Nebraska churches that day. Mrs. Grant Wllloughby, living near Falrbury, was thrown from a buggy In a runaway and received injuries that may result fatally. Mrs, Maggie Johnson, wife of the man whoso dismembered body was found In Salt creek at Ashland a week ago, is under arrest charged with the crime. A. A. Lasch. who owns a large spplo orchard near Weeping Water, Is mak ing preparations to harvest what will bo one of tho largest and best crops ever produced In the orchard. Ills es tlmate on the yield la 8,000 to 10,000 bushels.