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...corn prices have risen with the rest of the cereals; and the corn belt's main worry has been as to the size of the current crop. Preliminary estimates as of Oct. 1 by the Department of Agriculture indicate a crop this year of 2,459,000,000 bu., compared with an actual crop of 3,046,387,000 bu. in 1923. Whether the higher price per bushel will compensate the corn-belt for its fewer bushels this year, remains a difficult problem...
...Department also estimates the spring wheat crop at 266,000,000 bu., and the winter crop at 855,000,000 bu., or a total of 1,509,000,000 bu., compared with 1,299,823,000 as an actual crop in 1923. Thus the wheat farmer will not only receive a higher price per bushel, but he will have this year a larger crop to sell. Thus his prosperity this year is beyond doubt...
This feat, magnificent as it appears, was not difficult of accomplishment. Colombia has few cities of any commercial consequence: Barranquilla with its seaport at Puerto Colombia; Bu- caramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cucuta, Manizales, Medellin, Buenaventura...
Perhaps it has not needed Mr. Lamont's recent article in the Advocate to show that for once statistics have been unconvincing. Bu at least the article settled the matter indisputably as far as Harvard is concerned. Undergraduates do not believe that "success" in life is attained through eminence in scholastic records...
Prince Wa-bu-Wa-bu, the pride of Oksgptgmfp, and master of all living dodgers, is now resting quietly at the Hotel de Gink, in preparation for the grand and stupendous festival which will be held for the Seniors in the baseball cage tomorrow night. It is with great pride that the committee announces his presence as one of the chief features in a program which should inspire even the most blase to deeds of might...