Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, May 09, 1917, Page 5, Image 5
THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 0. 1917. WHEAT OFF SIXTY ILL10NBUSHELS Condition of Crop Showi Im provement, but Acreage is Smallest for Years. FAR BELOW BUMPER YEAR BULLETIN. ' Nebraska Sixty Per Cent Condition and estimated production in important producing states follow: Production Condition. Forecast. Per ct. Bu. ...... to ll.479.OIH Stile -rcebreska Unto ; 83 SB.moo Indiana 6 13.040.000 "linot 64 19,311.000 Missouri 64 19.333,000 Kansas g9 42,OO6t0OO Oklahoma 71 3l,l,tooo Washington, May 8. In the face of a threatened world food shortage tne American winter wheat crop shows the lowest condition recorded since 1888 and promised a smaller yield than any other since 1904, Agricultural conditions otherwise . i . . . . ate guuu, ic department announceu, snd iit recalled that although the win ter wheat crop of 1912 shov ed an equally discouraging, outlook the total production of crops that year was the greatest on record The crop, planted last autumn on one of the largest acreages ever sown to that grain, but which met disaster in several lmDOrtant nraducin? states frorii severe winter conditions, now promises a harvest of 366J 16,000 Dusnels t us vear. That quantity was forecast today by the Department of Agriculture which based its estimate on the con dition of the cron Mav 1 as reoorted by the thousands of agents through-T out tne gram belt. Big Decrease in Montfi. A month ago a crop of 430,000.000 bushels was torecast. Production last year was 481744.000 bushels and in JSla it was 673.947.000 bushe s. On May 1 the area of winter wheat . to be harvested was about 271.653,000 acres, compared with 40,090,000 acres sown lait autumn and 34,829,000 acres harvested last vear. The condition of the crop on May 1 was 73.2 per cent of a normal, com pared with 63.4 on Anril 1. 82.4 on May 1 last year and 86.6, the average oi tne last ten years on May 1. Hay and Pastures. Meadow (hay) lands: Condition 88.7 per cent ot a normal, compared with 88.4 on May 1 last year and 87.9 the ten-year May 1 average. Hay: Stocks of hav on farms May 1 are estimated at 12,488,000 tons, or 11.4 per cent of last year's crop, against 14,452,000 tons, or 13.5, per cent, on May 1 last year; and 10,827, 000 tqns, or 12.5 per cent, the five year average on May 1. Pastures: Condition 81.9 per cent of a normal, against 85.2 on- May 1 last year and 85.2 the ten-year May 1 aver age. - . -Spring Work Well Along. Spring plowing: Was 72.4 per cent completed up to May 1, compared with 70,4 orl May 1 last year and 69.,t the ten-year May J average. ' Spring plating:, Was1 J8. per cent completed up to May 1, compared with 56.7 on May 1 last year, and 56.3 the -ten-year May 1 average. . 1 Nebraska Conditions Reviewed. Aaron- E. Anderson, field agent, , gives the following general review of ; crop conditions in Nebraska, May 1: Most of the counties will have a little winter wheat, ranging- from the. occasional field to a belter ronditlon In a few of the less Important counties where possibly one third to one-half of the acreage will be left. Many of the . most important counties will have practically no wheat. In eastern coun ties farmers havo not yet decided whether to plow up the wheat ftelda tr to leave them. If many of these flolds do not show at least a fair prospect by tho latter part of the month they will be planted to corn. The condition of the wheat In the eastern V counties Is very bad. KverN some of the better fields are nearly a month late, weedy, thin stand, and with many of the under ground sterna ao badly damaged that It Is doubtful If many of them can carry the necessary nourishment front the soli. At best, the yield will be light and with unfa ir Vorable weather It may be almost nothing. t In the wts.fern part of the alate, the Condi Z tlon of a part of the wheat Is fairly good. ' In the central part of the state where we have the large acreage, there la practically no. wheat upon which to report condition. Damage to Alfalfa. Even the rye was more or less damaged nd many reports indicate a certain per centage of abandonment. The condition of ryo left lor harvest la low but la improv ing. . The abandonment of alfalfa will be very large, but the extent Is yet. doubtful. The greatest damage appears to be confined to a atrip east and west through the center of the state which Includes many of the most important counties, but reports Indicate ' damage over.the entire state. Fields over three and four years killed out wost. The extent of the damage to last fall seeding depends upon the quantity of moisture which was conserved previously to seeding. Bed clover killed out badly. From a study of many field conditions, both clover and alfalfa was damaged tiff the drougth and freezing. The cupply of hay on farms'le perhaps the lowest for some time. The sblttfnents were much larger than usual, but not equal to the demand. Farmers - are delayed with the plowing, due to a late spring, rains, extra large per cent of work to be done, and the shortage of necessary power. Practically all small grata Is seeded and corn planting has be gun. With a large Increased acreage, this means a very buay month. Pastures are backward. . OUTLOOK GRAVE, SAYS HERBERT HOOVER "Subma rine destruction hai been steadily increasing for six weeks. The situation is one of extreme gravity, make sure of that" This was the warning of Herbert C. Hoover, who is to be America's food dictator, on his arrival in the United States from France. "The European food situation as well as the general war situation there requires every possible effort we can make," he said. "What Europe needs most is wheat, and it must have wheat; but it must also have beef and pork prod ucts. We have landed only 60,000 tons of food in Belgium during March and April. Deaths greatly increased. The babies were cared for first They did not die. It was the adults, the old people, the mothers, who suffered. The relief commission has only thirty vessels. It should ha ve seventy to feed Belgium alone." ' federal Aid Will Be Given . Jo Revive River Traffic St. Louis, May 8. Promise that tfie federal government would give finan cial aitf to the immediate rehabilita tion of river transportation was given to the river conference here today by Brigadier General William Black, chief of engineers tl the United States army. ' ' General Black said that he was asked by Secretary of War Baker to urge on the conference the immediate revival of river traffic. ' The federal shipping board, has au thority, he said, to use some of its funds in the revival of this traffic and would be willing to loan money for the immediate establishment of barge and steamboat lines. . The War department, the shipping board and the Council of National De fense, he added, were impressed with the urgency of rehabilitating river transportation. . ,- -y Millionaire Banker of Los Angeles Expires Suddenly Los Angeles, May - 8. Otho S. Houston, millionaire banker and prin cipal owner of about twenty bankVin Teitas, two of the'm in Fort Worth, was stricken with apoplexy in his oftce- here today and died within a few minutes. "He was a nephew of General Sam Houston and-a distant relative of David F. Houston', secre- ae of. aarriaultttrav x '. 'V -?'J-"--N-V''; HOOVER. ; Federal Council o Protestant Churches Outlines War Program Washington, May 8. A special war program of action for virtually all Protestant churches in the United States was formulated today by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and will be em bodied in an address to the churches to be issue i tomorrow. Among the proposals for this pro gram, presented in committee "reports todayv were the following: National prohibition as a war meas ure. . . Practical economy by individuals and families.. Co-ooeration of the churches with the Red G'oss in war relief. Declaration Tieainst lowering of labor standards under war stress. f Co-operation of all churches through a committee or inc leoerai council with the Wsr and Navjj departments to suoolv the most efficient ministers as chaplains, v Action bv churches and the xounc Men's Christian association to pro mote a moral and religious atmo sphere about the new army. The program for todav also in cluded addresses by President Henry C. King of Oberlin college and Ray mond Robins, Chicago social worker: Dr. Frank M. North of New York, president of the federal council, pre sided, and Charles McFarland. gen eral secretary, explained that the meeting W3 called especially to con sider the position of the church in the war. Afore thanJOO prominent churchmen were present. : : 7 Hundred Millions 1 8 Paid to France Washington, May 8. France to day received the $100,000,000 the United States has decided to lend it to meet its expenses in this coun try durin? May.' The amount was transferred by Secretary McAdoo to Ambassador Jusserand today by treasury warrants. , LANSING POTS GAG' ON ALLOFFICIAIS Subordinates Who Give Infor. (nation to Papers Will Be Dismissed. FORMS "NEWS" BUREAU Washington, May 8. Secretary Lansing today followed up the State department gag order, which forbids any other official there to give infor mation to the public, with a statement that jjy other official who gave out information conveying a criticism of the department's policies would be dismissed. ' Mr. Lansing reiterated that the giv ing of information to the public through the newspapers would here after be restricted to himself and the newly created bureau of foreign intel ligence. , V Secretary Lansing said he had for b!di officials to talk with newspa per correspondents because he was dissatisfied with having information come from -many different channels and perhaps from contrary points of view. lie intended, tie said, to cen tralis all information, even as to de tails, in the bureau of foreign intelli gence. , Nails Lid Down. Ajjart from what was given out by tne Dureau or Dy nimseit, tne secre tary said no information would be allowed, to reach the public through the State department. Secretary Lansing was pressed for an instance ot wuere imormation harmful to the best interests of the country had thus been published. Ho said that as yet no serious cause had occurred, but be was much afraid that they would occur shortly. Secretary Lansing stated that the press would Jrave to content itself with what the bureau of foreign in telligence gives out That bureau, he said, would handle everything in th international field;, all subjects con nected with the war in short, every thing. Censors Inexperienced. The bureau is manned by two offi cials. The chief of the bureau is without newsDaner exDerience and his assistant has been in foreign fields Cuba. China and England for several years. The bureau also has the task of supplying American missions aoroaa wnn iniormaiion. Under the new order a State de partment official is prevented from giving the public even such Informa tion as that of personalities of distin guished foreigners, who come to the United States on missions. The news gatherers have access only to the officially censored announcements of the department. Senate Takes Up Spy Bill Behind Closed Doors Washington, May 8. The senate closed its doors again today when it took up the embargo section of the espionage bill. The section, as desired by the ad ministration, was virtually agreed to last night when Senator La Follette proposed an amendment forbidding an embargo to nations which consume American exports themselves and did not allow them to get to enemy coun tries and provided that the embargo should not be used to coerce neutral nations. ARMY BILL MAY GO BACK TOCONGRESS Joint Conference Committee in Deadlock Over Important - Amendments. WORK ON IT IS SUSPENDED Washington, May 8. Conferees on the army bill today fell into such a deadlock over the amendment to per mit sending of Colonel Roosevelt's division to France that they sus pended wo-k snd considered return ing the bill to house and senate snd asking for instructions. The prohibition amendment, the age limits for the selective conscription and the amendments for raising vol unteer patrol regiments for the Mexi can border also are stumbling blocks. Teachers Describe the Ideal Perfect Woman Liverpool, April 30. "The Perfect Woman" as just been de6ned by s conference here ot teachers trom girls' schools throughout England. Here Is the result of their united ef forts: "The perfect woman Is 40 years old, it married, and is the mother of five children. She is in happy circum stances, living in a beautiful part of the country a few miles from s big town. She is the center of good home; in which there is a high stand ard of cleanliness and comfort, and where good taste is everywhere vis ible, in furniture, carpets, curtains, wall paper, ornaments, clothes. "The ideal woman is sensible Snd business-like, and her home is a place of peace. She is patriotic and inter ested in politics, and does all she can to 'remove the causes of suffering among the poor. She is a delighful companion, and has f. gift for friend ship. She is a religious woman, and tries to fulfill her duty toward God and toward other people. "She ' takes walkj, rides bicycles, climbs, swims, dances, skates, rows, and plays games. She can ride a horse and drive a motor car. She is pro ficient in fliany branches of practical learning, She can do anything and everything about the house. She has some knowledge of the law, knows how to invest money, can use a type writer. She is a great reader;-every day she reads some serious book as well as a newspaper and a novel. She Speaks three languages besides her own and reads foreign books. She is fond' of gardening and has learned several crafts wood carving, metal work, bookbinding and embroidery." Steel Corporation Takes Big Slice of the Liberty Loan New York May 8. The United States Steel corporation will subscribe $25,000,000 to the liberty loan, the largest single subscription yet an nounced. Officials of the corporation in making known today Intention to subscribe for this amount intimated it probably would be increased by an aggregate of subscriptions from the employes of the corporation. . PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Arthur Hsrrlrir. ared eon ef. Attorns? Rsrrlna ef the Board of Education, has left his school in St. Louis to work on a farm in northern Minnesota. t A MIGHTY good doctor say e V'ro me once: "When it comet to curin' folk, Nature i the real M. D.l'm only her auittant. " That's the way I feel about curin tobacco. "Scat! I'm saving this for VELVET!" MOTHER NATURE Protects Your Tobacco IF You Smoke VELVET She sees to it that Velvet's mellow- ness and aroma are not created byx artificial methods, but by her very , own. That is ' ' A complete natural curing for two years, during which time the tobacco" remains, untouched, in its original wooden hogsheads. At the end of two years it is made into Velvet and is as smooth as its name implies, . 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