Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1901-08-10
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1901.
T,iumpl,s of the American Farmer.

$500 ~A@S~
States sent abroad a larger volum
of exports than ever before. Tn
sale OF their surplus products t
other countries raised the aggregsr'
of our foreign trade far beyond tn
two billion marx, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. European papers
hare much to say of the growing OK
cellence Of American manufactures
hut keep track less closely Of the
progress of American farmers. In a
general way the standard of our agri'
culture is the highest in the world.
Our agricultural machinery is in q
superior class of its own. It has been
invented and adapted either by
farmers or those who knew practical
" what was needed. There are some
instances in which we are not first
but they are few. Denmark is fur
Their advanced in dairying, Germany
in beet sugar production and France
in wines, but the gap is closing. We
are learning to grow and handle the
sugar beet, and much Of the wine
that comes from France is of Ameri-
can growth. We have no near COM
petitors in raising corn, cotton, wheat
and many other staple articles of
worldwide demand. In growing
and exporting apples this country is
First, and the fact is one of the most
significant as to the progress made.
Turning to the future of American
farming, other great achievements |
are in sight. A few days ago Secre-
tary Wilson delivered an address
before the National Farm school,
near Doylestown, Pa, in which he
touched on the further development
OF Anaerican agriculture. The United
States during the last fiscal year
paid $420 l39, 288 for agricultural inn
porte, and this was an increase of I
GOO over the preceding year.
sugar was the largest item, reaching
'l0l 100000, Secretary Wilson says
his country should be move success ]
u than any other in beet sugar pro- f
uctlon. The industry here is grow =
q at an enormous rate. Our imports q
tobacco cost SIS, OOO, 900. But we .
syeaearnad to raise the Sumatrs f,
4, Nper leaf, and took the first medal n
ardeoi for it at the Paris exposition. Il
ban tobacco grown in + 'lorida has
N prizes over that prt oduced in
Iba, Our bill for tea in 1900 was L
100000. 1t is said that we
ould raise our own tea in the South c
t little Roadway has been made IN 8
, culture. Foreign vines cost us d
,OOO, 900, and some of it had made i
10 across the Atlantic to be- manip- E
ated and returned under foreign 9
bells. Coffee imports cost us less b
ian fifty-two million dollars. y
Secretary Wilson thinks that Porto =
leo, Hawaii and the Philippine is a
,nds will produce all the coffee, :
oices and rubber needed. Cuba /
light be added to the list. for it is :
ure eventually to ask for annexation. t
he secretary asserts that "the United :
L
tates is the only country in the t
world that could, if forced, exist sue
,essfully without importing anything
outside of it's own borders" Our
rational territory, in fact. stretches
nearly half way around the world, and|
includes all climates from the equa
torial to.the arctic regions. Our far ,
mers are the most intelligent and en-
and also the best equipped
with the machinery that counts for
SO much in production. Only the
best processes are good enough for
them. They are reading, thinking,
.o1f. raa,,ac+iu0. moral class. and y