PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
THUP.SDAY, MAY 2S, 1925.
WINTER WHEAT
CROP SHORTEST
IN 2 DECADES
The striped'beetle is one of the worst
n...io nf the cucumber, melon.
squash and other related plants. The,
beetles attack me pianis as soon as
they appear above the ground and
devour the tender stems and leaf
lets before the plant Is hardly start
ed. Later on. they gnaw the older
stems and fruits and act as carries
of diseases euch as wilt.
ill
PAGE SIX
No Drastic Price Changes Are Justi
fied, However, Unless Drouth
Continues. '
There is nothing in the present
condition of growing crops in the
United States to indicate any dras
tic price changes in tlie grain mar
kets. As the situation stands, it is
safe to say that prospects for the
wheat crop are subnormal and pros
pects for corn are abnormal. Both
statements must be qualified, and the
final outcome of either crop is de
jendent upon the weather, and the
amount and distribution of rainfall
during the growing season.
The winter wheat crop probably
will be the smallest in twenty years
or more. In 1917 the final yield was
estimated at 412.000.000 bushels and
it dots not seem probable that these
figures will be exceeded this year.
The final yield may be much less; it
can hardly be more, and the reasons
are now apparent. The abandon
ment was above 9,000.000 acres and
about 33.00'MHiO acres remain for
harvest with conditions over large
areas below normal.
Wheat is making short heads over
a large section of the southwest, and
no amount of rain can improve the
grain to any appreciable extent after
the heads are former. In those sec
tions of the winter wheat belt where
heads have not formed the crops is
threatened by a serious lack of both
subsoil and surface moisture. The
latter condition may be relieved any
day. but the lack of snow in the
mountains, together with strong
winds and high temperatures over
all the plains states, makes this
somewhat doubtful at this time.
Conditions in the spring wheat
country of our own northwest are
very unfavorable over large areas,
but there is still ample time .tor a
normal yield with rain and good
growing weather. Our spring wheat
yield last year was over 225.000.000
bushels, and it is doubtful if that will
be exceeded in 1925. This means
a total of around C00.000.000 to 650.
000.000 bushels, compared to a total
of S72.000.000 last year.
This loss in the United States may
be partially offset by a gain in the
Canadian yield over 1924. when the
crop made about 270.000,000 bushels,
against the record crop of 490,000,
000 in 1923. The Canadian crop out
look is promising, but a yield of 370,
Ooo.OOO is about the best that can
be safely anticipated. These figures
indicate a yield for North America of
around 1,000,000.000 bushels more
In Canada than last year, and still
leaves around 140,000.000 bushels to
be made up by foreign countries to
equal the world's crop of 1921. All
reports from foreign countries are
fairly favorable but do not indicate
that their increase will offset our
shortage.
Considering all these factors, the
present price of wheat does not seem
too high: in fact, with any losses ap
pearing between this time and har
vest in the northern hemisphere, the
shortage in bread grains may be
come acute, and prices during the
coming year might go much higher.
Our government estimates the world's
carryover of wheat on June 30 will
be around 125.000.000 bushels, or
less than one-half the normal
amount.
The oats crop will be largely de
termined by the same influences
which will determine the yield of
spring wheat, but we may produce a
record crop of corn. The acreage of
corn is above normal and the crop
will not suffer much from lack of
moisture during the next three
weeks. A dry June is generally con
sidered ideal for corn, but lack of
subsoil moisture will affect the crop
this year earlier than usual. The
pinch will come in the- last half of
June, and good rains must come in
July and August.
There is no cause for undue alarm
at this time, but the crop season is
not starting under favorable condi
tions. Nature may limit production
this season and that will inevitably
hi the price of grains later in the
year.
At this time a strong market is in
dicated, with higher price levels not
impossible in the near future. Gen
eral rains over most of the corn and
wheat belt at an early date would
depress prices for a time, but a wheat
shortage in this country is practical
ly certain, and prices are likely to
reflect this condition.
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FARM BUREAU NOTES
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tCopy for this Department
furnished by County Agent .j.
C-!-I"H-i-I-I-I-I-I-I- W
Spray Potatoes
Use 4 to 6 pounds of arsenate of
lead to 50 gallons of water; or, one
round of paris green to 16 pounds
of cheap flour mixed thoroughly and
Bif ted on the vines while the bugs are
email.
Aphids or Plant Louse
Use Black Leaf Forty, which you
can buy at any drug store. Use with
care and as directed.
Control Striped Cucumber
Beetle
A mixture of powdered lead arsen
ate and hydrated lime in the pro
portion of one to ten by weight is
one of the most effective dusts for
controlling the striped cucumber
beetle, according to the agricultural
college at Lincoln. The dust can be
placed in a gunny sack and shajen
over the plants three or four times
daily until vining of the plants be
gins. Sifted wood ashes, road dust
or land plaster are frequently used
but are not as satisfactory a control.
JOHN M'DANIEL
AN OLD TIME
RIVERMAN
Veteran of Many Years on the 01d;
Missouri when iriying bteamers
Only Mode of Travel
From Monday's laily
There is surviving in this com
munity one of the figures of that
most interesting period of the life
of the middle west, th-3 river steam
boat days, when the busy boats were
plying up and down the Missouri
river carrying passengers and serv
ing as the link that kept this then
unsettled section of the world in
touch with the more thickly popu
lated centers to the east.
This man is John McDaniel. one
of the real old timers and whose
memory covering almost seventy
years of life connected with the
river service can unfol 1 many an in
teresting story of life and incidents
of the days of real sport from 1S60
to 1S70 when the steamboats were
at their prime and the river towns
were centers of all of the life and
colorful incidents that pertained to
the inflowing tide of pioneers to the
west.
Mr. McDaniel was born on May
6, IS 19 in Andrew county. Missouri,
and has spent all of his lifetime in
this portion of the west, his life hav
ing been spent along the river and
in keeping track of the many changes
in the conditions of afl'airs in traffic,
Mr. McDaniel has a real storehouse
of information.
He came here to Plattsmouth on
June 30, 1S55 and his parents set
tled on a farm east of this city in
Mills county, Iowa, where he spent
his boyhood days until he was old
enough to learn a part of the inter
esting work of the river boatmen,
and since that time he has been
more or less closely identified with
the work along the river. The par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. James II. Mc
Daniel. resided on the farm until
their death.
At the time that the family came
here the location east of the city
was known as Clenwood landing, the
town of Clenwood which predated
Plattsmouth by a long period of
years being the largest town in this
immediate section of the west. There
was no railroad through Iowa at
that time and it was not until July,
18C7 that the K. C. line of the Bur
lington was built that made the first
means of travel in this locality on
the rails.
When Mr. McDaniel came here,
he states that the Nebraska side of
the Missouri was very wild and un
settled and at that time the Indians
were still here, leaving shortly af
ter their arrival when the treaty
with the United States government
was signed which threw this section
open for settlement. The Pawnees
were the tribe that occupied this
territory and held sway over this
part of the country, with the Oma
has on the north and the Otoes on
the south. At that time the Pawnees
held their main lodge at the place
occupied later by the William Eiken
bary farm south of this city, where
the chief and the head men of the
tribe made their headquarters. Short
ly after the McDaniel family reached
here, the Indians left as per the stip
ulations of the treaty and the influx
of settlers from the older states in
the east commenced to flow in. Mr.
McDaniel states that during the days
of the civil war there were many
coming here from other states to es
cape the draft law in effect In the
civil wars, as the territories did not
ff.U in the provisions of the draft
act and anyone who could reach a
territory was exempt from the terms
of the draft act.
In speaking of the old time resi
dents here at the time that Mr. Mc
Daniel came here, he states that
Duke Graves, also living here, was
one of his boyhood playmates and he
also has the distinction of being one
of the oldest of the residents in this
section. Others of the. residents of
thi3 community at that time as recol
lected by Mr. McDaniel were F. S.
White, one of the pioneer residents;
Charles Robine, long a familiar fig
ure here; E. G. Dovey, who came
here in the early sixties to fund the
business house on lower Main street
that served as the outfitting station
for many expeditions to the western
country; William Herold. then a
young man and Jam-?s O'Neill, who
was one of the men that assisted in
the laying out of the townsite here
with a man named Martin, they be
ing among the first white men to
cross the river here before the de
parture of the Indians.
Peter A. Sarpy, whose life is
closely interwoven with the history
of this part of the west, was also lo
cated at LaPlatte and operated a
trading post there that supplied the
Pawnees and the whites in this sec
tion as well with their foodstuffs
and clothing, which was transport
ed up the river In the very occasion
al boats that came thi3 way.
In speaking of the early days, Mr.
McDaniel states that in the year
1S61 a . ferry boat operated by Peter
A. Sarpy, was sunk in the river near
here and also the "W. W. Walker,"
one of the earliest boats in operation
on the Missouri, was sunk at the foot
of Main street in the year 1862, the
years having swept in the sands and
soil that have long since covered
the wreckage that was sunk near
where the August Bach farm now
is being operated.
In the year 1865 Mr. McDaniel
started In on the active work of be-
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Ghrict & Christ
Complete Home Furnishings .,
118-22 So. Cth St. Phone 645.
C. E. Wescott's Sons
Exclusive Clothiers
Weyrich & Hadraba
Drug3 and Kodaks
Jess Warga
Hardware, Heating, etc.
Hatt's Market
Meats, Groceries. J. V. Hatt, Prop.
Ofe Oil Co.
Gas, Oil and Greases
Fetzer Shoe Co.
J. W. Crabill
Jeweler and Optometrist
F. R. Gobelman
Wall Paper and Paints
Tidball Lumber Co.
Good Lumber Hot Coal
Emma Pease
Millinery, Beauty Shoppe, phone 352
Ladies Toggery
Cleaning and Dyeing
Popular Variety Store
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made in this way will also draw
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to deposit your money in their Savings Department
J
ing a real river pilot and had a job
on the "Colorado," that plied between
St. Joseph and Omaha. This boat
hauled ties up from St. Joseph to
Omaha in 1865-66 for the Union Pa
cific railroad then being construct
ed and also much of the stone that
was used in the building of the
Union Pacific bridge at Omaha was
hauled by steamer to that place.
One of the early settlements here
was at St. Marys, on the Iowa side
of the Missouri, just east of the
mouth of the Platte, where a very
thriving little city existed up until
the year 1867 when a sudden change
in the course of the river caused the
sweeping away of the settlement and
in a very short time the fine little
place was marked only by the rush
ing waters of the river, even the
burial ground at that place yielding
to the ravages of the river and being
wiped off the map.
Mr. McDaniel states that in the
early spring of 1866 he was on the
"General Grant," one of the newer
packet boats at that time and which
attempted to break through the ice
that was formed near the mouth of
the Platte river then about where
the present pumping station of the
Plattsmouth Water company Is now
located, and the boat was crushed
in the ice and sank in a very few
moments.
The coming of the railroad to the
landing on the east side of the Mis
souri river in 1869 checked the work
of the river boats to some extent as
the railroad was able to get supplies
here much quicker and from that
date on the traffic graduallay fell off
on the boats until finally it came to
be only a dream of the past.
Among the boats that Mr. McDan
iel was employed on In the period
from 1868 down to the last of the
seventies were the "H. C. Mutt,"
with Captain McPherson, thei "M.
D. Munson" and the "James F.
Joy."
Mr. McDaniel was married at
Glenwood, Iowa, January 17, 1875,
to Miss Sarah Ann Smothers, who
passed away in this city in 1886.
After the death of Mrs. McDaniel,
the husband ceased his river work
to a great extent, although he had
worked at Sioux City and also at
Rulo on transfer boats that were
under the command of Captain Mc
pherson and Captain Butt, lie later
took up work In the Burlington
shops here and spent thirty years
there in service before he retired.
This fine old pioneer riverman who
is now in the twilight of life, has
three children, Charles McDaniel
of Beard, Nebraska; George of Chad-
ron and Ray of Pocatello, Idaho, to
carry on his family and aid in the
life of the community in which they
are located.
WINS FIRST PLACE IN COUNTY
SEED CORN SHOW AT CHICAGO
DeForest Philpot of Nehawka took
first place in the Cass county seed
corn exhibit of the National Seed
Corn Show held in Chicago under
the auspices of the Sears-Roebuck
Agricultural Foundation, according
to a report reaching here. His en
try was chosen as the best in this
country's display and was awarded
the blue ribbon.
The average germination of the
corn entered in the county exhibit
waa 90.9 ner cent. th rpnnrt ctntori
This is considerably higher than the
iivt--iiiKu lounu ror an Nebraska en
tries, which was only 61 per cent.
The National Seed Corn Show, of
wmcn me tjass eonntv Yhihi wna
a Part. Was the lartrPBt aoofl -nm
show ever held. It was designed to
can me attention of American corn
growers to the condition nf thoir
seed corn and th nri fnr o-ormj na
tion tosts to assure a good crop.
Fully 27,411 farms in 45 states had
entries in the show, which waa In
effect a series of 1,731 county ex-
111 oils. ,ach ear was tested for ger
mination and the judges were ten of
the leadine rnrn nnthnT-IMoa In
America.
AN ESTIMATE OF STREET
LIGHTING COSTS IN U. S.
The following ficnrpj on
lighting charges are given by Pro
fessor J. T. Rood, in an article in the
April issue of th Wisconsin En
gineer: "In the cities of the United States
with populations of 5.000 to 10,000
",c 6B eireec ngntlng charge
per capita per annum is about 85
cents; form 10,000 to 20,000 popula
tion, 88 cents; 20,000 to 50,000, 79
cents; and from 50,000 to 100,000,
69 cents. The average for the United
States is about 72 cents. In the mid
fie S takInS nto account centers
of 5.000 population and over, the
annual street lighting charge per
eanira ner annum t . . .
cents; Iowa, 66 cents; Michigan, 80
cents; Indiana, 77 cents; Illinois, 69
cents, and viapnni on J
ughtiner tax mnv nm .
cents. For really good street lighting
iKTOL Pi' wapiti
" " uc ,aa lQan only nine
states expend more than 90 cents,
than$l GSe nly fOUr exend "ore
Phoae us the newil
