The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-12-13
Crop Reports.
Annual Report Of the Secretary Of
Agriculture for l9O6-Corn Still
Holds Its Supremacy.

Tie annual report of the Secretary
Of Agriculture has been made and is
in part rs follows:
Farmer MISUNDERSTANDING Will
son in presenting to the President his
tenth annual report takes occasion to
Indicate the position of the producer from
the soil in the development of the cOun-
try. He reports him as making progress
in the sciences and arts OF agriculture,
aided by the researches of the department
and of the experiment stations, and
states that 1.-The time of the man and the
acre become more responsive as more i'm
perative demands are made upon them.
Enforcement of new LaWS.-The laws
made by Congress at it's last 'ssiOn, to
be executed by the Department, have re-
quired and received special attention.
The meat law is being enforced. and in
spectiOn is now made in over a thousand
houses Not less than thirt Ell hundred
Experts have been added to the inspec-
ton force. Rules have been prepared for
the execution of the pure food law. Good
has followed the operation OF the law
for the determination of the cattle'fever
tick in some of the Southern States. In
dealing with the gypsy and brown-tail
moths OF New England, imported para
elltS HIVE Dctll successfully
Bargaining has been made in the meth
cd OF determinin the grading OF grain,
and the law providing for the humane
treatment OF live stock in transit is re-
ceiving careful attention.
Estimated value of farm prOductS-
The economic revolution in the art and
science OF agriculture continued during
1906, with tremendous results on the
national prosperity. The value of crops
continue to rush forward beyond com
prPhenslOn; crops are straiEing the
frelght-carrying ability of the railroads;
and the farmer, alive to the Importance
of the place he occupies in the nation. Of
ters this yearly account of himself to the
people. The Secretary promises that the
figures presented in his review of the
years full production are advance esti-
mates preliminary TO those 70 be made
later by the Department. Estimates are
made for comparison with every detail
presented by the census. The farm pro-
ducts OF the year have a farm value of
very nearly six thousand eight hundred
million dollar nearly half a billion above
the value of 1905 and exceeding by over
two billion dollars the figures for the
last census
Iaiue of leading cropS.-Corn remains
'tti Ih' hipSU IOp.
at eleven hundred million dollars Next
comes the cotton crop, which. including
seed, should be worth to the growers
nearly six hundred and forty million
dollars. The value of hay. which is third
IN Order,apprOaches six hundred million.
Wheat, the fourth crop, may be worth
four hundred and fifty millions; oats,
three hundred millions; potatoes, one
hundred and fifty millions Barley, with
value of sixty five million dollars, shows
gain OF two per cent. in production in
the past seven years The tobacco crop
will be worth about fifty five millions A
remarkable development is that of the
sugar beet. now the ninth 'rop in value
he production in 1906 splaced at three
hundred and forty-fve long tons. valued
at thirty-fOur million dollars Seven
Years ago the value of this crop was
seven million dollars. The value of all
Kinds OF sugar, syrup and molasses ag
gFPgates seventy five million dollars.
thigh total ralue.-On the whole, crop
values have been neither notably high
nor low ncomparison with recent years.
out the high price level in the general
average has raised the total crop value
somewhat as compared with 1905 and
The high preceding years. To reach a
still higher point in this series ofhigh an
hual values is an achievement worthy OF
attention.
tram StandardizatiOn.- Depart
ment holds that some system of stand
AFulzanOn is necessary as a first step to-
ward securing uniformity of grain grad
ing congress at it's last session author
LIeu the establishment of laboratories
WIN view to eventually bringing about
tHiS standardization. Two laboratories
nave Deem established. one at Baltimore
ana the other at New Orleans, where q
thorough study in the present system of
gram grading will be made with view
" reaching methods which will make
standardization possible.
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