The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-29

| the cotton of the world. Of the F, $50 900 bales reported in the last statistics the United States supplied 10, 100000. The per- | centage does not grow less with the years. This country supplies the mate rial for mankind, and, so far as propor- ton goes, cotton is more king than ever. | Wheat is king. There came a time
 when the production of wheat became more important than our production of cotton. Today we raise nearly twice as much as any other country on the globe,
 and with the coming of irrigation the totals will be vastly increased. In spite | of the floods and the tempests and the misfortunes of the weather. the crops this year are so large that they can scarcely be gathered. Out West fancy prices are being offered for farm hands and the waving fields are rich with wealth, and the bankers are calling for l a more elastic currency. so that the crops may be moved. Wheat, too, is more king than ever. v Corn is king. There is a dignity about wheat which has been denied to the more humble make, but when it comes to totals and to dollars and cents, corn triumphs. Now 1t is upward of 2,0O0, ,OOO,- 900 bushels 8 year and it is still increas- ing. Not only that, but it is making its way to the tables of Europe, and the exports grow as its good qualities are appreciated. This year the corn fields are finer than they have ever been and millions of dollars will go to the grow CTS The hog is king. We think of beef as
 our best meat product. but the propor- ton of beef to hog is something like the proportion of wheat to corn. The num- ber of hogs packed ane marketed in this country every year now exceeds SO.OO0. 900. and the time is rapidly coming when the United States will supply 100000 hogs a week for the appetite of mankind. So we must remember that it Is a great year for hogs.
 The tree is king. MT. Whitaker, the editor of the New England Farmer, de- clared that 1t is not cotton or corn, but the tree that Is king. He backed his as- sertion by wonderful figures of our lum-
 Der supply and added arguments for the
 preservation of our forests in order to prevent a timber famine. Still. with all
 the exhaustion of the woods, the pro- duction and use of lumber were never greater than they are this year. The produce of American agriculture
 including farm animals and their prod ucts, has an aggregate value annually of nearly 5000, 900 900. Five billions of dol lars, please note!
 Corn has an annual value of between $S00, ,OO0, 900 and $500 100000.
 Wheat has an annual value of $4OO.- COG. .O00.
 Oats are worth more than s2OO,0OO 900 year.
 Cotton runs from 45OOOO.OOO up to s5OO,- oO0.OOo.
 Animals reach above $90O, 900 900 towards $1, ,000. 100000 annually.
 The dairy yields almost $500, ,0O0.0 900.
 Poultry and eggs go close to $3OO. 900, 900.
 Products of agriculture form about two-thirds of the entire export trade. Last year the exports from the farm amounted to $s6OOOO,OOO' says Secretary
 Wilson.
 There are no figures of the past with which to make comparisons. The pros- perity of the United States has simply distanced the arithmetic of wealth.
 We have given the figures that may be found in the latest collections of statis- tics. They are sufficiently extraordinary, but it happens that the returns for the present year exceeded them. According to the government estimate, there will be corn crop of z,1o9. 300, 900 bushels and there Is an increase in the other crops so that their value forg1S03 has recently been estimated as follows: