The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-04-01
THE FARMERS PROSPERITY.
GREAT INCREASE IN THE res
IGRICUL TURAL WEALTH.

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Products Worth Two Billions Of Dollars
Grown Last Y~enr-Prices Also HigheY-
A Decided Advance In Live stock
The Allied Industries Feel the Eject.
Attention has .een so strongly rected duhng
the past wo years to the almost sensational on.
largemcnt Of the foreign market for American
manufactured goods and cereals and the normou
development Of the manufacturing interests II
the country 10 supply the foreign as well as the
home desand that comparatively litde notice
has been taken If the vast increase In the agricul.
tural wealth Of the country, always the largest
item in the material prosperity Of any country.
The recent report II the statistician Of the
Department Of Agriculture showed a yield from
the narvests Of 1899 Of 2.O7s. 1883 5 bushels
Of corn, valued at 1929, 2l0, ITO: 47.SO3,s46
bushels of wheat, Of the value Of SSl9,-
5i5, $50; 796. mn bushels Of oats. valued
at Sl93, l67, 1915; 23,06l, 74l bushels Of rye,
valued al Sl2, PA, rs, and II, O94,47s bushels
Of buck valued at so, lS3, 675. II to this total
there be added the value Of this seasons yield IL
cotton, there will be found an aggregate value
ofnearly one and one half billiOnsof dollars(Sl ,le7,-
S2l 1870 for these agricultural products In 1899,
exclusive Of tobacco, hay, potatoes, nee, beet
root and sugar cane, which would bring the val
uation TO Wo billions Of dollars, on an agricultural
capital in the United States which represents
a value Of 81 $50, 00o, 900, a gain Of nearly 81. Co.,
0 1000 over the figures Of the Federal census
taken in 1890.
the lowest price for corn In any State or Ter
ritory last year was 20 cents a bushel in Okla.
homa; the highest price was 90 cents In Oregon.
which produced less than 800, 900 bushels. The
smallest yield was in Montana and the largest
in Illinois. The six great corn States - Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Indiana
produced ! ,2bS, 900, 900 bushels, more than half
Of the quantity grown In the whole country. The
yield Of wheat last year was the largest In ten
years, with the exception Of 1891. The smallest
yield in any State reported was 1850 bushels
In New Hampshire, and the largest In Minne-
sofa, Last years yield Of oats has been exceeded
only once in ten years. The smallest production
in 1899 was 05, ZOO bushels in Rhode Island and
the largest was in Illinois. The highest valuation
was 81 cents a bushel in Arizona and the lowest
10 cents in Iowa, only nine States produced
more than l,OOO,OO0 bushels each Of rye, and these
nine yielded rs, 900, 900 Of the "a, 900, 900 bushels
reported by all the States. The highest average
price was in Georgia, 81 IL a bushel, and the low
est price was 81 cents in North Dakota
II Is not only in such standard crops as these
that the increase Of the agricultural interests Of the
| nited States has been large. Hay, one Of tho
most important Of the crops Of the country, In the
extent q which the United States have only one
compared wiih s"n'e precsdinn ysars ss -.
tnharcn r,,tnr bns tad IsSd 90 vs.
nrire is nou ,bnn, !" S1 W. a n t; vU"m ~
months ayo III. vdrIJi, "nnms 10 nnn m
l,2uU,Wo. bales less than a year ago and the &C.
conlpan!iing increase In price Is TO the benefit
CHIEFLY OF American sellers.
There has been a decided advance, averaging.
1t Is computed, ~ per cent in four years, an avet.
ag" gam OF 10 per cent a Aear, in live stock. Sheep
81 ,ck raiserS dncior. shnnn, 'dd n,hia on n WIN,
what they were Gy. yenrs ae" COWS sIs vo,ih
bi nar con, no,n ~ dr ~ ~ y ~oNn
cedinr 1897 Wcy. have advs,c 80 h mn S,inn' 1bb.n-r
are moi in greats, number ihsn in isuo Up, ny
numbered 30 600 o00 Tbeip nmmhe, ossSmWS
now a, 10 0o0 no0 I'm, nn,n u nun 81. s nus,
has increased ard 30 a IN" - u. pupuiniyn
increased eynn ~ ,yads r.. n,as .G,sry
the hogs Of he country is So.6 oCn ooo y ~ ,u ua
crc,se If * q ,.n, 40 IL ~ am
lion ~ I've yaa,s =, hnt "s ~ AZ 'asua-
in The Nun b., * ui,h ,uhoS "a, cen.
Of AZ n.r cant in H. , ~ ~" " h n.n ~ ~ de 20.
Cen, IN N ~. r,,ua =, ~ VI hutses. anu ~ yer
both Tor Iocal sunrir ana ~ a. ~ to uai, 'nn.enrn.s,,'
has ;nrrs.t !" Io ouPl'sp ", III VI i"Itnsn eHPoo,,,
a md S, mtenSTn intRrA' Iouiny safes IN we tnln
:" iii, liz ,nn , nnnns reEs' VIII aIiouht IN isOo
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hhaTu1 nus anu ,rltIi mounts w. aDout one
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.g,;crii ~ nor"nn,ns " htoehi,ea nsu.es OF
" ~ Iunu ,9nruiau'n' ping a. 'hr prginhinS
a. lb"u, sdo0oooV Iof hotses, s~lloo0O0OO
nGo nnn !, "',r'u '"u,p i"f miiIch ro"s ana eooOi-
"n'Dvw ioi "'hrI cn.ur ne vaiue oI i've s'ock
Un ,ninS .n JanuadH was ~ ooo'oVoooo' an IN.
''TnSr mI soso ooopoo over looo
imlirh"h,S anu machinery snow a gar IN
=, ,n, u' rhS, nN' srnrs, ahu mere nas zen
b. a. ~ ihi lthse hIihe III tne P1u1uct ono
w ~ ILL., y, pruueum ~ ohs o. we chiei l,ems
W. rn,iH'I, mum sh' , hien o'nes 70 IoreIgh
'" innnn nuh,E ,t ,"rI,r nlohtns ehnlng Jan.
l'W 'he shdI n,rnls ni Ane1can pe'oIeuR
amoo no" ,n ~ "pon"w Thi,"ns' eSrlusiye o.
.."","p RallonS 81 h'lWhI on we vaiue OF 'his
''mm " I,LI'!'n Uhn' lrlhg 100 ,Hp,OOo,
IT, r'iauon "tlch We agncullural Interests
"a a ~ ."iIluh Wv ! murn n'd'es now sdhuS
.I1' nrn,nE Wy hhi"nS m tr World IN .roepccs
WhE,"nIt.r,, huSNa Germany, france Husrna.
uiea, nLIhin n!l1WlnR IN tne order named
oraI' " VIC ulhtenhl nrN'Io1hent OF other nfancbee
=, business ~ s,thrnihes irnncftrciy UNDERWOOD.
raimcr; arr no, dIWdyS hpefai pun are always
ch'rtulNr rpnsunlcfs d an mhnufacturei gOodas
nlnr,Hl1rfy Ior Ihrn'hR uses, lahrics lor clothing.
puiiuihs mhtrtlAlS ana inrn snpphes where
naI'c " ere nnrtaI ana seilng pricesoi hye stock
anu crIeals are nlyh, as ~ now the case, farmers
ore ehVenNle purchasers OF manufacture eruciee
ana tnPN are n very imp RANT factor In the de-