The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-27
WEALTH OF
 THE FARMER .narkable Figures of Secretary Wilson. NEW HIGH RECORDS MADE Cotton is Compelled to Take
 Third Place. The Total vaiue of All the Crops of the Nation for the Year Is
 Placed at se,4i5,-
 oeo,oo0.
NEW HIGH RECORDS MADE

duction on the farms of the United | States in 1905 reached the highest amount ever attained in this or any other country--s6. 415, ,000, ,0eo." 1 In the first annual report of his third term, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson presents an array of figures and state- ments reporting the products and prof it's of the farmers.
 Four crops make new high records
 as to values--corn, hay. wheat and rice although in amount of production.
 the corn crop Is the only one that ex- ceeds previous yields. In every. crop
 the grain elevator productions was high and prices still higher. Besides the enormous yield Of wealth, the Secretary said that the farms of the country had increased | ss.1s3.ooo,000 in value during the past i've years.
 This increased value. the Secretary suggests, is invested better than in
 bank deposits. or even in the gilt edged bonds of corporations In dealing with the crop report
 ~ieak," Secretary Wilson. after re- ferring to the gross breach of trust on the part of the employees of the bureau of statistics says:
 The Statistics "Leak.- This Department acted with vigor and dispatch when 1t got evidence of wrong doing on the part of It's own officials but we have no evidence of disciplinary preventive action at the traders end of the line, where gamb- Iers. interested neither in the produce ton nor consumption, disturb values
 to the injury of both. and make loud
 outcry when creatures of their own
 kind corrupt officials to betray confi-
 dence for the love of money The re- sponsibility for this leak Is shared by every one who. to get money with out work. gamhies in farm products. when this form of iniquity ceases. the parasites who tempt department off,
 ciais will have to work for their
 bread"
 The method of handling crop reports,
 he says, has been thoroughly recast
 during the year. There has also been decided change In the methods of work prescribed for field agents. each agent is now confined to a definite group of States. where he becomes thoroughly familiar by travel each
 month. Cotton Has Third Place.
 Analysing the principal crops for the year. the Secretary says corn reached the highest production with 2,70S,000, 900
 bushels, a gain of 42,000,000 over the next highest year, 1899; hay is second
 in order of value, although cotton held
 second place during the two preceding years. The hay crop this year Is val
 ued at $605, 100000. Cotton comes third,
 s520, ,oOo, ,OoO; oats, s2s2.ooo.0Oo: pota-
 toes $13s.O0o. .00o; barley. s5S,ooo,OOo;
 tobacco, $52.000. .o00; sugar cane and su- gar beet, $50,000,000: rice. $1S,000.000; dairy products, $65.000.oo0.
 'The farmers hen," the Secretary says, "is becoming a worthy companion to his COW. The annual production Of
 1R M. try products have climbed to place or more than half billion dollars in value, so the farmers hen competes with wheat for precedence.
 There are more horses with larger aggregate value than ever before. not withstanding. as the Secretary says. they were first threatened by the bi- cycle and later by the suburban troiiey and the automobile. He estimates their value at $1.2oo.ooo.ooo. or nearly as much as the corn crop, and the value of mules at s252,00o,0Oo.
 Although milk cows are increasing in number and value. the report states that other cattle and sheep have for several years been decreasing. There are 17.57o.ooo milk cows valued at s4s1.- 900, ,OO0 Other cattle are numbered at
 4s. 66s, 900 with value of $662.o0o,00o.
 vaIue of Farm Animals.
 Swine numbered 47.321,oO0, valued at
 $2s3,255,o ,o0o.
 In the aggregate, the value of farm animals has increased few million dollars within the year. and since the census of 1900 have increased per cent.
 With this enormous production. the Secretary says, che wants of the SS,- O00. 900 people have been supplied with A remaining surplus constituting
 generous contribution to other nations
 The exported farm products during the
 fiscal year ending June 30, 1905, had a
 value of $s27. 100000. which was less
 by s5I .000, 900 than the average exports
 for the five preceding years.
 In accounting for this, the secretary
 says that owing to the short wheat crop there was a decrease in export Of that cereal amounting to $41 100000; of s5. .0OO, 900 in the export Of packing house products. another $5.000.00o in fruits and other minor items. The in- creases included $9,350,00O in cotton, "A 700. 900 in oil cake. and oil cake meal; s4 .00O. 900 in vegetable oils. and $2,000,-
 oOo in rice and various minor products. DomestIc Exports of Products. During the last sixteen years. the secretary says, the domestic exports of farm products have amounted to $12,-
 oo0, ,oo0, 900. or $1,O00, 100000 more than enough to buy all the railroads at their commercial Naluct anu tHis WhS d inefS surplus for which there was no de-
 mand at home"
 Secretary Wilson points out that the farmer is taking an important part in developing the manufacturing. interest of the country. furnishing raw ma terial, and that he has also become banker. The farm contributions to
 manufacturers during the year were 1 $2.679, 900.
 Under the recent addition to the na- tional banking act allowing the banks with a capitalization of less than $50,- | GOO. there have been 1.754 such banks | established in the last year. rehrly every one of which Is located in a ru- | ral community and the capital fur nished by farmers.
 or these new banks 635 are located in the Southern States, and 792 in the | North Central States.
 Speaking of the incr eased deposits | in banks by farmers, the secretary | says:
 Banks Filled With Money. "In the North Central States. farm .,-. bax,s heeu daDosifiux money in tf,o