The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-03-19

SOiiiOTuld, OTCndrQS 1910, 100
California, barley ......... 11,617, 10S
Louisiana, sugar .......... IL .000, 900
North Dakota, fax seed.... 7,735, $40
New York, buckwheat 49,. 3,627, 284
Wisconsin, rye ........ 1858, 205
Northern and eastern states included
in the above are thickly populated, and
have probably reached their highest
stage of development With the lead
ing cotton state it is different. Thou
sands of acres of virgin soil have new
er been penetrated by the pillow, and
await immigrants who may cultivate
land to its highest state of usefulness.
Cotton is a money crop.
The value of Texas-raised cotton is
almost equal to the combined values of
the corn crop of Iowa, the wheat crop
of Kansas and the oat crop of Illionis
truly wonderful showing. Other
striking comparisons could be drawn,
and were the southwest referred to
with its cotton crop of 1929, 023, 648 lin
Guiding seed the figures would be even
more favorable. Cotton is not the only
crop of this section.
Statistics based upon the federal CEN
sus OF 1900 show that out of 5,737, 657
farmers (not including farm hands, in
the United States, 777,164 are in the
southwest
Other comparisons follow:
Farm owners-southwest, 540,440;
United States, 5,737,372
Land decided to aboveowners-south-
west, 1S1, S22, $50 acres; United States,
S3s,591, ia.
Land and Improvements, with build
ings-southwest, $1,159, 1889; United
States. 1864, 647, AL
Implements and machinery-south-
west. SIS, 076,6 900; United States, $749,-
775,97O.
Live stock-southwest, $454, 1865, 1876;
United States, $3,075, 477,703.
That the Southwest is the garden
spot of the world and is destined to
increase in commercial Importance
and become the most densely populat-
ed portion of the earth is apparent
when-the following figures tell what
was raised in this section in 1903.
Cotton, 100000 bales, value, $780,
100000
Cotton seed. S,944,457 900 pounds,
value, $71,494,S45.
Corn, 20O,000,0O0 bushels, value,
s12O,OOo,OO0.
Oats, 1O0,0O0,OOO bushels, value,
$50,000,000.
Wheat, 55,75O,OOo bushels, value,
$41.812,500.
Dairy products from 1,265,O00 cows,
value, s33,644 ,430.
Hay and forage, 4,519,416 tons
value, $21,010,S09.
Sugar, 79,4O9,23O pounds, value
$18.627, 2S2.
Vegetables, 55,43S car lots. value,
$16,629, 869.
Poultry, 4s,o6O,S2l fowls, value,
S15,040,2S0.
Rice, 300,0OO,OOO pounds, value, $15,.
100000.
Fruit, 100000 bushels. value, s15,.
100000.
Eggs, 4s,4S4,425 dozen, value, 49,.
S46.SS5.
Potatoes, 100000 bushels, value
$7,50O.OO0.
Wool, 21,9SS,65S pounds, value, 49,.
94S,95S.
Bees, S26,13S ,swarms, value, STATS
M414.
Honey and wax, 1o,25O,oO0 pounds,
value, $1,225,S29.
Kaffir corn, 2,925,06S bushels, value,
s667, $50.
Nuts, 3.993,7S0 pounds, value, $685.
254.
Broom corn, S,555.27O pounds. value,
s532,162.
Thus total of $737,619,0 S7 for Tex
as, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklaho
ma. New Mexico and Indian territory
is reached by conservative estimates
which do not include important mis-
cellaneous crops. 1t is apparent that
the southwest abounds in milk and
honey; bread and meat; fruits 0nd
vegetables sufficient to enable mil
lions of citizens to live at home and
also assist in supplying the markets
of the world. The value of products
is increasing each year as the result
of improved methods of farming and
in a few years the crops specified
above will reach total valuation OF
more than one billion dollars in the
southwest These facts taken from
the highest authority of the general
government, show where production
is greatest in this country.-Phil C.
Travis, in Farm and Ranch.