Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-06-06
WHY FARMERS SHOULD BE REPUBLICANS

In these days of McKinly and pros
perity, when the tremendous boom in
the manufacturing industries and the
vast exp 7eiJn of our export trade has
emphasized republican legislation and
policy, people have largely overlooker'
the immense increase that has take
place in the agricultural wealth Of the
country, always the largest item in the
material prosperity of the American
nation. That the farmer has shared
literally in the improved Coz itions
republican legislation has wrought in it's
tariff for their interest is shown in the
statistics Of the Agricultural department.
The harvest of 1899 yielded 2. 07s, 143. =
90o bushels of corn. valued at S629, 2l0
ITO; DAT, 303 SAG bushels ,f wheat, valued
at 1919, 545. $50; 100, 177,1I3 bushels of
oats valued at $1o3, 167. 975; %, 0Gt. 741
bushels of rye worth Sl2, 214. 11s. / /. 094, .
413 bushele of huckwheat worth $611,
IS3,655 IL TO this total there be added
tne value of this seasons yield of cotton
there will be found an aggregate value
OF nearly one and half billions of dol
lars for the agricultural products in 1899,
exclusive of tobacco, hay, potatoes, rice,
sugar beet and cane. which would bring
the valuation to easily two billion dollars
on an agricultural capital in the United
States which represents value of SIT, :
800. 900, 900 gain Of nearly 81, 900, 900,
600 over the census figures of 1890.
The six great corn states Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri
and Indiana produced / ,253, 600. 900 bush
els more than half the quantity grown
in the whole country The yield of
wheat last year was the largest ID ten
years 1891 being an exception. Lass
years yield in oats has been exceeded
but once in ten years.
Hay, one of the most important of the
crops of the country, in which the United
States has only one rival on earth, Rus
STA, shows considerable increase. com
pared with some of the preceding years,
as does potatoes Cotton has had de-
cided boom-its price is now much higher
than in the opening market and the
world'ss supply is computed to be l, 200. 900
bales less than year ago and the in
crease in price comes chiefly to our
American producers There has been a
fine advance averaging, ii is computed.
40 percent in years, or an average gain
of 10 percent in live stock in that
time. Sheep are higher than for twenty
years and are worth on the farm double
what they We're five years ago. Cows
are worth so per cent more than during
the ten years preceding 1897 Hogs
have advanced heavily. They ara not
in greater number than in 1892, when
they numbered SO, 600, 600 Their num-
Der is estimated now at 80, coo 600 but
meanwhile the population has increased,
and there has been very largely in
creased export trade The present value
of the hog crop cf the nation is $246, 600
900, an increase of IS per cent compared
with the valuation of five years ago, but
of only 80 per cent in the number com
pared with 1896. During the past five
years there has also been an increase of
35 per cent in the value of horses and 20
per cent in the value of mules. and dairy
interests, both for local supply and for
eign export has increased largely Poul-
try sales in the United States, including
eggs. willamount in 1900 to fully $780,,
600 000, and the produce from live stock,
including milk, butter, cheese, hogs and
pork products, beef cattle. mutton. sheep
and lambs, hides and pelts, amounts to
one half the value Of live stock at the
beginning of the year according to the
recognized figures of agricultural COM
putation, being at the beginning of 900:
S5l5, 900, 900 for horses, $110,0 900 for
sheep $500, GOO. 600 for mich cows
and $3.50 coo 600 for ether cattle. The
value of live stock on farms in January,
1900, was $9.5IS, OO0, 600, an increase Of
$3.50. 900, 600 over 1881
The increase in value of the pro,.IctS
OF the farm shown in the above car, ful,v
compiled figures. as the result q, repu1-
lican legislation and confidence ought Co
bring every farmer to its support. be-
cause of this conception and support of