The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-12-01
GREAT Showing BY
american FARMS
SECRETARY WILSON TELLS OF
MARVELLOUS CROP RECORD
FOR THE YEAR.
Record in Corn Production Is Broken
Total Value Of All Crops Is Es-
timated to Be $6,415, 200, ooo-
Extracts from the Report.

Washington, Nov. 27.-The past
year has been one OF unprecedented
prosperity for the farmers of the Unit
ed States, declares James Wilson, Sec
rotary of agriculture, in his annual re-
port to the president According to
the document, farm crops have never
before been harvested at such a high
general level of production and value.
Corn has reached it's highest produc-
ton, over 2,700,000,O00 bushels, of a
total estimated value of $1,216,O 600, 900.
Hay comes second, with a value of
$685., 900. Cotton is expected to
yield $575, 100000 The short wheat
crop of last year is followed by one OF
684,000,000 bushels, and it's value
$525, 900 overtops the highest value
ever before reached. While only one
crop, corn, reached it's highest pro-
duction this year, four crops-corn
hay, wheat and rice-reached their
highest value.
No crop but corn produces the in
come that the dairy cow does. The es-
timaCe of the value OF dairy products
for 1905 reaches $685., 100000 The
farmers hen completes for precedence
with wheat, poultry products aggre-
eating half billion dollarsin value.
Wealth Produced by Farms.
"And yet," says the secretary, 1.-The
story is not done" The wealth pro-
duction of farms in 1905 has reached
the highest amount ever attained by
the farmer of this or any other coun~
try, "a stupendous aggregate of results
of brain and muscle and machine"
amounting in value to $6,415, 000, 900,
an excess over. last year of $256, 000, 900.
The wealth produced on farms in 1905
exceeds that of 1904 by four per cent,
that of 1903 by eight per cent, and
that shown by the census figures for
1899 by sc per cent. Should there be
no relapse from his present position as
a wealth producer, three years hence
the farmer will find that the farming
element, about 35 per cent. of the pop
ulation, has produced an amount OF
wealth within ten years equal to one
half of the entire national wealth pro.
duced in three centuries.
Value of Farm Animals.
The value of horses and mules on
farms exceeded last winter $1,452, 000,-
900. Mich cows are advancing in
numbers and are worth $482,000, 900
The value of all other cattle is esti-
mated at $662,O0O,O0O. Sheep are de-
Ginning in number and total value
while swine maintain their previous
position, and are valued at over $685.,
100000. In the aggregate, the value OF
farm animals of all sorts has increased
over that given in the census of 1906
by nine per cent.
During the last fiscal year, exported
domestic farm products were valued a;
1927, 100000. This is below the an
nual average for the five years pre-
ceding, and the relative position OF
farm products in domestic exports is
a declining one on account of the gain
in exports of manufactures. Neverthe-
less, during the last 16 years the do,
mesric exports of farm products have
amounted to $4,000, 100000, or $1,000,
100000 more than enough to buy all
the railroads of the country at their
commercial value, and this with the
mere surplus for which there, was nc
demand at home. During these IL
years the farmer has secured balance
of $685., 100000 to himself, out OF
-
of $543 100000 in the foreign trade in
nonagricultural products, turning over
to the nation, from his account with
other nations, $780,, 100000. The ex.
ports of forest products were s69,000.-
900.
Farmers Are Bankers.
One of the most notable outgrowths