Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-27
American Farms Add to Wealth Of the
World Immensely,
ruPtNOOuS AGGREGATE FOR THE YEAR
ver Six Billions of D5llars Value of Farm
Froduo for 1906,
TREMENDOUS TOTALS ARE GIVEN OUl
Runs Mountain high Across
United States.
SECRETARY WILSON'S REPORT ASTouNDS

Figures Furnished show state of
Annirs that Proves the Farmer
20 he Greatest Producer
of wealth.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2s Secretary ot
Agriculture Wilson has sent his annual re-
port to the president. In it's opening pages
the secretary sets forth ut length the rea.
sons the American farmer has Tor thanks
giving. He says
Another year of unsurpassed prosperity
to the farmers of this country has been
similar years that has come To the farmers
Of any country In the annals OF the WorldS 8
equaled; It's value has reached the highest
figure yet attained: the value Of the farm
ers' national surplus stlll maintains the
that has built up the balance
Of trade by successive additions for many
years sufficient to change the nation from
a borrower into a lender; there Is a con-
tinuation Of the unprecedented savings that
have embarrassed local banks with their
riches and have troubled farmers TO find
festatiuns of a high degree OF wellbeing
were not enough, the farms themselves
have increased In value to fabulous cN-
tent.
Farm crops have never before been har.
vested at such II high general level of pro.
two or three secoud-class crops makes no
apparent impression upon the great aggre'
gate OF all crops.
value Ou the Farms.
The corn crop just harvested in the Uniteo
States is placed by the secretary at 2.7OS-
100000 bushels, a gain OF 100000 over thu
next lowest year, that or 1899. Wheat
yielded CS4O0OOO bushels. the second larg.
est yield in the history Of the country.
Oats, with yield Of 9SOOO0.OOO bushels, fell
5O.OOOOOO bushels short OF the record pro.
duction. The farm values of the average
crops according TO the estimate placed on
them by the secretary of agriculture, is;
Crop. Value.
Corn ............................ .$i.asNOo0,
Ray ..'.'.'.......'.'.'.'..''. 5g9'VD!Y
cotton ..,.............,..-.....,.. 0t9.eOoNO-
WheaJ ...'.......'............. 9zo,VpVN
Oats ........................... 2S2,O00,0h
Potatoes ............................ lSS,Oo0UI
BaIley '.'''.''..'.''''''''..'''' es'0W'Ni
sugar cane and sugar beets...... 100000,
Rice ..,.............,...,..s., lS,S92,no
After explaining that the values given
"are farm values and are in nowise TO bc
mistaken foI exchange middleman's or
consumers values" the report goes on:
While It May be observed that only onc
rop-corn--reachctl it's highest production
this year. four crops reached their highest
Nalue-snamply corn. hayg wheat and rice.
The The general cd lGTG Of Rr9PdlSSti9h was high
crops for which separate estimates can be
made fall below third place In total value
compared with the crops of preceding
years, except potatoes. barley. tobacco. ryo
and buCkwheat.- Tho cereals including
rice moro than maintained their previous
strong position I'm production, and their
aggregate yield is ASH 600 900 bushels, with
a farm value Of S2,123, 100000 or Sl45OOO.0G1
over last year.
Dairy and Poultry Products.
Other items than grain, potatoes and
forage enter into the estimate The old
COW is doing hcr share. and so is the hen,
for the report says on this topic:
Both butter and milk have hiEhet pricen
in 1905 than In 1904, and these, combined
with increased production, permit an esti-
mate Of the value of dairy products at
S665. 600, S5i,0OOOO above the, estimate
for last year. No crop but corn produces
the income that the dairy COW does
The farmers hen is becoming worthy
Compa Mon to his COW. The annual pro-
duction Of eggs is now score Of billions,
and, after supplying the needs OF factories,
tanneriCs. bakeries and other trades. they
are becoming a substitute for high-pTiced
meats. besides entering more generally into
the everyday food Of the people. Poultry
products have now climbed to a place Of
more than $5OO,OOO0OO in value; and so the
farmers hen completes with wheat for
precedence.
wealth Production OF Farms.
Just to show where the farmer stands
in the matter of accumulated wealth, the
secretary says:
Dreams of wealth production could
hardly equal the preceding HRureS into
which various items of the farmers in
dustry have been translated; and yet the
story is not done. When other items,
which can not find place here, are included.
II appears that the wealth production on
farms I'm 1885 reached tho highest amount
ever attained by the farmer OF this or
any other country, a stupendous aggregate
OF results of brain and muscle and ma
chine, amounting In value TO $6,il5.O0O0.
The deduction from wealth produced,
made i'm the report of last year on account
of products fed TO live stock, is not con-
tinued this year because the duplication
Of produced wealth in the consumption
Of products by farm animals is much less
than has been assumed and is undoubtedly
more than offset by the amount Of wealth
produced on farms which can not be es-
timated or even ascertained practically by
census enumerators.
II might reasonably have been supposed
in 1904 that the wealth produced by farm
ers had reached a value which would not
be equaled perhaps for some years 70 fol-
low, and yet that value is exceeded by
the value for this year by S256,0O00 900, just
as the value for that year exceeded that
for 1903 by $242, 10000
on farms I'm 1905 exceeds that of 1904 by 4
per cent it is greater than that of 1904
figures for 1893 By SO per cent, and this
after a lapse OF only six years.
II there is no relapse from this high Po.
sition that the farmer now holds a
wealth producer, three years hence ne may
3 look back over the preceding decade. and.
IN he will add the annual figures OF his
farming element or about S5 per cent Of
the population, has produced an amount
Of wealth within these ten years equal
! 10 one-half OF the entire national wealth
produced by the toll and composed OF the
surpluses and savings OF three centuries.
value of Farm Animals.
Animals on the farms Of the United States
are of passing interest in point Of value, the
figures given being for last winter The
values placed are:
Horses 81 300 600 Goa
Mules ....,.-.......'''.'''' .'-'''''.'t e9ziVlW
Mich cows. ..,..s.'..'''''''' fsEiVb,lN'
Other cattle vo<fUJusVe
Sheep and swine. ......s..s'..r----.. EhS,tno, ~
In the aggregate the value Of farm ami
mails Of an sorts has increased a few million
dollars within the year, and has increased
s2i9O0 600 since the census Of 1909, or pei
I cent.
Balance of Trade.
During the fiscal year ended June 70. 1865
the exports OF domestic farm products were
valued at sSZ7OOO.OO0. loss OF 100000 a.
compared with 1894 and S5l,OO0,O0O behind
d IA q a. 4.