Article August 1, 1914 Issue

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A large part of the one hundred and ten million dollars that Kansas farmers will get for their wheat crop this year, it is anticipated, is going into motor-cars and trips abroad. This applies also to Oklahoma, which will reap somewhere between thirty and thirty-five million dollars in wheat this year. In Kansas there is already one motor-car to about every forty-five persons, and there are now in storage in Kansas City six million dollars' worth of motor-cars that the dealers in Kansas have no room for in their garages. These ears are for Kansas buyers, and there are orders in the factories for nearly as many more. A third as many more cars are in storage for Oklahoma dealers, and about the same proportion for orders in the factories. Local motor distributors say that this represents only the preliminary sales due to the wheat crop, and that when the 1915 models arrive they will go out by the carload to Kansas. The motor dealers estimate that the sales as a direct result of the big wheat crop will run close to fifteen million dollars.

The International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Associations has evolved a scheme for the establishment of a model cotton plantation in the lower Bari Doab canal colony of the Punjab. The federation has for some time been convinced that India offers the most fruitful field for cotton growing outside America. The establishment of such a colony as that proposed, therefore, is in line with the general policy of the federation. The new company is expected to be able to do its work with a nominal capital of sixty thousand pounds. Its object is to establish a model plantation, not so much as a commercial undertaking as to present an object-lesson for the benefit of India and the cotton industry of the world as a whole. A system of intensive cultivation" is to be introduced, and a demonstration of the value of this system will, it is hoped, induce other landed proprietors to adopt it on their estates, and so increase the yield per acre, and also materially improve the quality of the cotton grown.

Lands just approved by the national forest reservation commission for purchase by the government, include 6,083 acres in West Virginia, of which one tract, comprising six thousand acres, is situated in Tucker and Randolph counties, in the Monongahela purchase area. The remaining eighty-three acres are on the Potomac watershed in Hardy county, in the Potomac purchase area. The lands bring the acreage of the Monongahela purchase area up to 42,887 acres, and the acreage of that part of the Potomac area lying in West Virginia to 36,405 acres, while the total acreage in the state approved for purchase, amounts to 105,480 acres. The lands approved for acquisition by the government for national forest purposes in the East since the purchase policy was inaugurated in 1910 are now 1,104,000 acres, having a purchase price of five million five hundred thousand dollars. About two million dollars of the original appropriation remains available for further purchases in the fiscal year 1915.

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