The Red Cloud chief., 1904-09-16
POTATOES.
A Lesson In Potatoes.

The last annual report OF Secretary
Stone, Of the Chicago Board of Trade.
makes tome significant remarks regard.
Ing these steady gains in the cash value
of our crops. 1t says:
our production of wheat in 1903
aggregated 63T. So. UsV husl,cls: " corn,
2.2ii.1T 900 bushels: uf oats. 1S4 .WD4,-
900 bushels: ~ rye. 20. aasi,up bushels:
NJ barley, 3l.Nil.W bushels. show ing
n total yield of the principal cereals OF,
In round numbers. :i.3ST.,l1 100 bush
els. valued on the farm ut Sl,IA9.T 49,
iIG. grown on lT2.UhJ,1l acres. Our
crop W hay aggregated III .3O6,WN tons.
The yield uf Potatoes aggregated IA.
l2S.Un bushels, valued ut xl5l.ts 900.
produced ON 2.3lG.S55 acres: the yield
was 31.ItS.OOO bushels less than that
of the preceding year. hut the value was
ST. 1927, UO greater. showing the larg-
est valuation recorded in any year, and
MORE THAN TWICE THAT OF
1896.
The farm value Of the chief cereals.
Of hay and of rotaincs. raised in 1908.
amounted to S2.Ii1. 73O.45O. The crop
Of wheat was :2,2il.NU bushels less
than that OF the preceding year. but its
farm value was S2o.S41,WN greater: its
valuation was in excess of the value of
the crop OF any year excepting that OF
1901
What Mnkss Prices Higher.
The purpose of this article has thus
been to show that while crops may vary
in size from year to year, the cash in
come from them seems in n general way
to increase from year to year what
-... A.. 10. - a.. ..
C9O3 the total farm value OF the chief
cereals aud OF hay and potatoes was
nearly two billion and Il half dollars,
and this year it promises to be- much
greater than last.
80 far as the mere size of the crops
is alone concerned. i; would seem unrcas-
enable. for instance, that u crop OF
wheat OF AGO. GT 900 bushels tthc crop
Of 1894 should. in January. 1880, have
sold 50 low as iSTs cents per bushel.
while the 1904 crop OF wheat. which at
the lowest present estimates is 100000
600 bushels. should now hc selling NJ
Sl.l0 per bushel.
But ii Is evident that there are causes
Mt work "a make our farm products sell
better from year Ia year. While sup
plies iluctuntc the market demand
steadily increases. This fact should
be considered Il very strong bull"
argument not only ON land values.
but on the general future business con
dition of the country. for every increase
over this two billion and a half dollars Of
farm land income of last year means just
so much more increase in the purchasing
power of the American people, and just
40 much more business for all our in
dustries, md just 81 much more work,
wages aud profits for all our people
anxious to better their condition of life.
The causes that are nj work to make
farm products sell better from year to
year are undoubtedly connected with the
general policies OF Republican admins
tration.
When William Mckinley, in 1896.
said II was better to open American
mills TO American labor than Ia open
the mints of the United States To the
silver OF the world. he expressed the
policy that transformed had times for
the entire people under Democratic rule
to good times for the entire people under
Republican rule. With the people in the
cities more prosperous. because Of the
policies OF protection and of sound
money. til" people In the country were
bound To be more prosperous. too, be-
cause there was an improved market
for what they had To sell. This, in n
nutshell. is the secret of the constantly
increasing agricultural prosperity OF the
United States under Republican rule.