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Show PROSPERITY FOR FARMERS Never in its history has the interior inter-ior rushed its wheat to market as it' has since this year's harvest. The 17-' 5 53 cars received here in August established es-tablished a record and followed high record July shipments of 14,61 cars. The two mouths receipts were close to 50,000,000 bushels, more than diuble the amount received in the same months la' year ana more than t!c uble the ten year average. The effect haa je i to increase the i bank deposits. D;i ' - bank has1 gained $12,000,000 since July and, hps $58,000,000 as compared with 5)41,000,000 a year ago At the same' time there has been an actual de-, crease in loans, despite Lbe 1 7,000,- 000 bushels of wheat in local oleva-J tors, which is mere Jim 'w!ce that of a year ago, which has ca. ad for( much borrowing. bankers say char never was there s sudden a transformation in fr.an-j Jul conditions as has been m l if est j in the last sixty days. Many country! banks that were borrowing to the! limit three months ago have paid their loans and accumulated balances with their correspondents. Most of the increase in deposits here is due to the larger balances of country i banks. Reports from Nebraska say the turn of the tide has given an impetus im-petus to real estate, that more farms will change hands before he season is over than in the last four years, and that prices will advance 10 to 2 5 per cent. Sixty days ago farmers considered that they were doing business bus-iness at a loss, now they are confident of a profit. Depression and discouragement discour-agement have given way to hopefulness hopeful-ness and courage. All eyes are now turned on the corn crop, which gives promise of a full average yield in Kansas, most of Oklahoma and in Nebraska, if the frost date be well delayed. It is expected ex-pected that the month's crop report will show fully as high a promise as did August, with perhaps improvement improve-ment in Kansas, which Is rpeciilly favored In both wheat and corn. The middle west producer has an entirely new point of view with a I'fiinir of his burden of debt. In one rncn rt h has a considerable alvan-' alvan-' over the earlier period. He thri built a new home. nnw barn?, improved im-proved his equipment and is on the whrl in fir better ron'tn'on t'-ip-i a dornie ago. Now he has the advance raid for and is In a position where fiipr-3 p-.cc demand for nrMorl expansion. ex-pansion. It likely thn be will turn whore poss'ble. to investni' nts eve! '""V to place some of his s-irnlas into in-to bond? and mrrtrEres rarHenlar- 1 ly bonds with such other securities as appeal to him. The promoters and salesmen for stocks are already in the field. |