The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-01-25
.SOUTH'S
GROWTH
It Has Made Vast Strides Within
a Year.
Its Manufacturing Products Have
Kept Pace With its
Agriculture.
EVERYWHERE
INCREASES

THE worlds attention has been so
largely oehtered upon cotton by reason
of the high prices now prevailing that
the advance in grain production In
the south has attracted less notice
than it would otherwise have re
ceivcd," says the Manufacturers Rec
ord.
1.-The yield OF corn IN the Ia south
ern states last year was $40, 900, 600
bushels, against 500, 600, 600 bushels
in 1902, gain of 1873, 900, 600 bush
els; in wheat there was an increase
from $4,000, coo bushels in 1909 to
6s, 900, OCO bushels in 1908, and in
oats a gain from So, 600, 600 bushels to
Ga 900, 900 bushels. The total increase
in the grain crop of the south was 1876.
900, 900 bushels, the yield for 1908
having been 773, 000,00o bushels,
against 607, 900, 900 bushels in 1902.
The total value of the corn, wheat,
oats, Irish potatoes, rye and hay crops
1.-THE only ones on which the Agricul-
tural department has yet made its full
reports) for 1903 was s5O6, ss7, 900,
against [s4o2, 700, 600 in 1902, an in
crease in these crops Of 81 04, 900, 900.
1.-THE minimum estimate Of the val
ne of the cotton and cotton seed crop
of 1908 is seas, 900, 600. 1t is quite
possible it will be considerably over
that. The census report Of 1900 shows
that the value Of other products than
those Just mentioned, including rice,
sugar, tobacco, sweet potatoes, vegeta-
bles, fruits and livestock products. was
s4s4, 900, 900. II we simply estimate
the value of these latter items in 1908
as the same as in 1900, although there
has been q considerable increase in
most of them. the same total value Of
the southern farm products for 1908
was s1,6I5. 900, 900, against sl,27i,-
900, 900 in 1900 and $3.50, 900, 900 in
1880. Between 1880 and 1908 the in
crease In the population Of the south
has been almost exactly so per cent.
while the increase in the value Of farm
products was IA per cent.
During this period in which the
value Of farm products has so enor
mously increased there has been an
even greater increase in manufactured
products, the value for 1908 includ-
ing minerals, having been about ST.,
$50. 900. 900, against s474, 1000, 600 in
1880. The combined value of sgricul-
tural ana manufactured products in
1908 for the south was about SO, 900, e
900, 900, against about $1,000, 900, 900
in 1880, the output having trebled,
while population increased 80 per
cent.
"Coincident with the remarkable in
crease in the value of southern crops
is the development Of exports through
southern ports. The total value Of
breadstuffs shipped through southern
ports IN 1908 was s7s. oSs, 900, against
e63, 751, 900 for the preceding year,
q gain Of nearly sl4, 800, 900. or
90 per cent, while for all other United
States ports the value of bread stuffs
exported was sl14,ssl. 900, against
$l23, 029, 900 in 1902, showing
a decrease OF $S.747, 900 in 1908.
Southern ports exported more
than 40 per cent. Of the total bread.
stuffs which went out Of the country.
These striking figures, showing a gain
at southern ports Of $4,000, 900 in
grain and -four shipments and . de.
crease at other ports Of $500, 900,
are but an other indication of the IA.
pidity Of the south's material advance.
ment, the foreign trade through these
ports keeping pace with the remarka.
BILE increase in agricultural and man.
ufactured products.