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Show H CHOPS AND PROSPERITY. , j Tho crop prospects arc reported as excellent. An eastern writ- H er says a largo winter wheat yield is already assured, and com, while H still subject to the vicissitudes of weather, is thus far in good shape, j Cotton gives every promise of a satisfactory yield at excellent prices, H resulting from an accumulated demand. Hay and oats are rather H disappointing and will, therefore, stimulate the demand for corn as H feed. But the harbest outlook, considered as a whole, certainly sug- H' Sests mother link in the long uubroken chain of years of agricul- Hv tural prosperity. This means, in turn, a tremendous purchasing H power for the products of industry which cannot fail to how itself M in general mercantile activitj- when the improved movement once H really begins. Stocks of merchandise in course of distribution and H and in the hands of manufacturers arc unusually light and must bo m promptly replaced. The demand from consumers has, during the H last few. months, been restricted to day-to-day requirements and has H been supplied out of stocks in process of distribution, both retail and H wholesale merchants in their own purchases from first hands mere- ly reflecting the limited demands for actual consumption. Thus our H manufacturers will be face to face in a shori time not only with H supplying the accumulated demand of consumers, but also with sup- H plying in the ordinary channels of distribution products to bring H supplies in these channels up to rtormal distributing proportions. H When the country gets over its nervousness and when eonfi- i dence is restored, there will be another period of prosperity such H as was experienced up to 1907. |