The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

What an immense amount of wealth
the farm can be made to yield, after
ALL The fact is bewildering when one
studies the agricultural statistics of,
for instance, Iowa and Kansas. The
agricultural products of either one of
those states in one year are worth
enough TO buy out all the property of
Utah and another state of the same size
and wealth, according 10 the assessed
valuation of Utah property. Either one
of those states in one year, from the
products of the farm, could buy out
Utah, close up every farm and factory
and mine and railroad, transport the
Inhabitants 10 the Philippine islands
and give back this intermountain land
and civilization TO the desert and the
red skins as it was discovered by the
pioneers in 1S47.
This is not said by way of dispar-
agement, but of encoura cement, and
for a better appreciation of the value
of the farm as a maker OF wealth.
Iowa produced in 1899 considerably over
$500. 600 worth of farm products
Kansas farmers in spite of their hot
winds and billiards. and drouth, wrest-
ed from the soil $4,000. 600 in gold
Iowa is the greatest corn state of the
Union. Last year there was produced
corn. Kansas produced over $53, 000,0GO
worth of corn In the case of Iowa the
corn was valued at % cents per buss1el,
and at that low price the enormous
sum of $70000,000 was realized. But
that does not represent the actual value
of the corn to the state of Iowa. Iowa
is a great Stock state and her farmers
are skilled feeders of stock. That corn,
or a great quantity of it, is fed to live
stock on the farm, and it is placed upon
the market in the finished product of
beef and pork What it represents in
the finished state / have not the sta
tistics at hand, but il is probably safe
to say that that corn is worth in beef
and pork about $100,cc0,O00. equal in it
self to the assessed valuation of all
Utah properly. In addition to the corn
the estimated value of the corn fodder
in the shocks was S,460,000.
In Kansas corn is also king. that crop
being worth last yea over $53, coo, 600.
The wheat crop was S22, 900 600; dairy
products sold amounted to $6,645,GO0;
poultry and eggs sold, $4,242 600; garden
and horticultural products marketed.
81. 225, 600: animals slaughtered or sold
for slaughter, SD SOC, 900. These are
some of the principal products of the
sell of Kansas, and these figures do not
take into account the value of products
consumed on the farm, such as butter
and eggs and fruit.
An acre of land in Utah is worth
easily two acres in Kansas or Iowa for
general farming. We have none of
their drouths, none of their hot windrl
or cyclones, and year after year we
can produce two bushels of grain for
their one, except possibly in the mat
ter of corn. And it is always the Lass
buShel of grain That gives the highs..
profit. That is to say, if it cost So TO
grow an acre Of wheat and a man can
only grow So worth of wheat from an
acre, there is no profit from the acre.
But If another man with a more fertile
acre or by superior methods of tillage,
can grow Sc worth of wheat, then the
sixth dollar is clear profit. If Kansas
can only produce So worth of wheat per
acre and Utah with her irrigation can
produce $40. Kansas may raise 81. 000.-
600 worth of wheat a year and Utah
only SO, 900, 600, and Kansas farmers will
toll in vain while the Utah farmer will
have d good profit on the business.
Wheat Yield.
have compiled from government
records the following table showing the
yield per acre of wheat in the several
states mentioned for eight years ending
1898, except in the case of Kansas,
where only six years are given. 1t also
gives. the average for all the states.
Table No. Yield of wheat per acre
in bushels