Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-29

Value.
Corn 70s, 10000 bushels 1890 81 .l6 900 o09
Hay ................ tOI. 10000
Cotton .............. $4,000. 900
| " heat-6S4, 900 900 bushels $500. E25.ooooOo
Oats-939, 0OO,0 900 bushels 2S2,o0OW
Potatocs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 13S.Jf0, 900
Barley-1sa, ooo, 600 bushels ...... 5s,oooOOo
| Tot.i GOO Observation-Disclosures. -, 600 pki
Sugar cane and sugar bects 5o.0e0o0)
Rice-637 600 OOC pounds ........ 14.OO0 600
The aggregate production of cereals
| in 1905 has been 4.521 100000 bushels.
with farm value of S.. 123 1000, 900, an
increase of sl45, 600 900 over 1904. But
ter and milk, worth to the farmer $780,
OG0 900, have been produced.
Tho American hens have laid 20 bill
lion eggs. The hen, the Secretary tells
President Roosevelt, has become the
worthy companion of the farmers
| COW. The 10000 600, 900 eggs were worth
to the farmer s5OOO9O,OO0. According
to Secretary Wilson's figures, every
| man, woman and child in tic United
States is entitled to eighteen and one
! quarter dozen eggs a year, and if paid
for at 20 cents a dozen, the market
price. the per CAPITA contribution to the
hen would be $40. The farmers
hen" as Secretary Wilson delights in
calling her. is crowding the former
great staple crops for first place. 1t is
nip and tuck with the chicken and the
wheat crop. with only paltry s25 ,00O,-
900 standing between.
Secretary Wilson refers to the intro
duction of mich goats from Malta.
They do not give matted milk, but are
to be used in chcesc-making expert
| mcnts. 1.-The rickey'' industry is re-
| ceiving attention at the hands Of the
| Secretary. He has procured seedlings
of lines and distributed them among
growers. There are now 1I.00O000
horses in America worth $1,20000o.00O;
So ,O00UoO worth of mules. 17,57O,0O0
mich cows valued at s4S2, 900, 900. Sheep
are declining in number. Swine are
on the increase and number 4i,321 900,
worth s2S3 ,255, 900. The value of ex-
ported farm products was 1927 900. 900,
which was S51 900, 900 below the annual
average of the preceding five years.
The farmers prosperity has resulted
in the establishment since 1900 of 1,154
small national banks to take care of
his money. Bank deposits have risen,
for instance, 356 per cent. in South Da-
kcta and 50i per cent. in Arkansas. De-
posts i'm the South have risen to $780,
03O, 900 for the first time in the history
of that section. The crop lien, the
Secretary says, is disappearing, and for
the first time in half a century the cot
ton planters unsecured note is now
good at the bank. and his land is a
safe security and is salable. Farm
values have Increased si,132 600, 900.
Speaking of the Weather Bureau and its
achievements Secretary Wilson says:
Recent observations have led to the
discovery of a possibly large variation
from the sun, or an equivalent possible
variation in the transparency of the
highest portions of the earths atmos-
phere.''
The agricultural department has ex-
perimented with monkeys with the re-
suit of demonstrating to the Secre-
tary's satisfaction that they were sus-
Ceptible to both forms of tuberculosis
bovine and human. Tuberculous
cows. the Secretary says, should not be
= used for general dairy purposes. A
new kind of pineapple has been invent
ed. A method of utilizing the poppy
TO produce morphine has been de-
Neioped. Great strides have been
made i'll the Introduction Of forest man.
agement. The idea is being rapidly
'e adopted by private owners in the Yves,
ana Middle West. Two million acres
Oh forests are being thus privately con.
served. Canned horse meat is still he.
IL ing exported to Europe. Meats can he
J! and should be canned without the use