The Greeley tribune., 1905-11-30
BIG FIGURES.
THESE MUST BE USED TO
SHOW WEALTH
Remarkable Report by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson
Farms add six Billion
in Wealth

| In the nrSt annua! report OF MS
third term Secretary OF Agriculture
Wilson gives some figures in regard
to farm products that almost stagger
imagination.
Four crops, corn. hay. wheat and
rice have made new high records.
In every crop the general level OF
production was high and that OF
prices still higher,
Beside the enormous yield OF
wealth, the secretary estimates that
the farms of the country have in
creased in value during the past five
years to present aggregate OF s6,-
l33, 900. 600. Every sunset during
the past five years." he says, has
registered an increase of So, 400, 600 in
the value of the farms Of this coun-
try This increased value, the
secretary suggests, is invested better
than in bank deposits or even in the
gilt edged bonds of private corpora
tions.
Analysing the principal crops for
the year the secretary says that corn
reached its highest production with
2, 7os, 900, 900 bushels, a gain of A.
600. 900 over the next lowest year,
1899. Hay is second in order of
value, although cotton held second
place during the two previous years.
The hay crop this year is valued at
s605, 600, 900. Cotton comes third,
with valuation Of s575, 900, 600;
wheat, s525, 900, 600; oats, s2S2, ,0oO,-
600; potatoes, sl3S, 200, 900; barley,
s5s, 900, 900; tobacco, s52, 900, 900;
sugar cane and sugar beets, $50, ,000,-
900: rice, sl3, s92, 600; dairy pro-
ducts, $500, 900, 0OO, an increase of
s54, 00o. 600 over last year.
THE farmers hem the secretary
says, is becoming worthy COM
panion to his COW. The annual pro-
duction of eggs is now score of
billions. Poultry products have
climbed to place .of more than a
half billion dollars in value, so the
farmers hen competes with wheat
for precedence.
There are more horses and with a
larger aggregate value than ever be-
fore, Notwithstanding, as the secre-
tary says, they were first threatened
by the bicycle and later by the su-
burban trolley and the automobile.
He estimates their value at Sl,200,-
900, 900 or nearly as much as the corn
crop.
Although milch cows are increas-
ing in number and value, the report
states that other cattle and sheep
have for several years been decreas-
ing. There are 17,570,O 900 milch
COWS, valued at s4S2, 900, 900. Other
cattle are numbered at 1860, 600,
with value of s462, 600, 900. Swine
number At, 32l 200, valued at $685.
255, 900. In the aggregate the value
of farm animals has increased few
million dol,ar within the year and
since the census of 1900 have in
creased per cent.
With this enormous production
the secretary says the wants of 3, OOO,-
900 people have been supplied with a
remaining surplus constituting a
generous contribution to other ma
tions. The exported farm products
during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1905. had value of 1927, 600, 900,
which was less by $51, 900, 900 than
the average exports for the five pre-
ceding years.
In the north central states farmers
have been depositing money in the
banks until the rate of interest on
deposits has fallen so low that they
have diverted large portion of
their savings to permanent invest
ments. In spite of the fact that the
banks do not receive and keep all or
most of the farmers savings. the in
crease in bank deposits in agricul-
lure states ana larger regions is most
extraordinary.
Still more remarkable is the bank
statement for the south central
states. Deposits increased 1871 per
cent in Texas.
For the first time in the financial
history of the south, deposits in tine
hankS Of that rapiOp pow eycoa1 al
900, 900, 900.
The foregoing remarkable in
creases in bank deposits in agricul-
tural states, as we'll as the increase
in the number of small country
banks, are directly and indirectly
because of the profits that have come
to the farmers from the operation of
their farms. The man with the hoe
n In \, tt,r 1,u