Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-09-07
IMMENSE CROPS
RECORD, o,eRgAKiNo PRODUCTION
IN ALL SECTIONS
WHEAT, CORN AND COTTON
T~snty-four Million Bushels Of Wheat
Above Any Previous Years Produe.
tion-Nessiy Three billion Bushels
OF Corn.

OF Corn
The crop reports issued by the de-
partment Of agriculture ON August 10Th
Indicated another reeordbreaking year.
says Golfers Weekly. Preliminary re-
turns put the wheat crop al ss.t3i.oOo
bushels. The spring ~hea, crop Was
estimated al :5s. $50 900 bushels. max
ing total probable wheat harvest Of
at T7...st 900. which is more than Was
eyer produced In any other country in
the world. about i60. 100000 NOR. than
cur own average production for the ten
years preceding. and nearly .t.oOo.oco
more than our greatest previous years
production in 1901.
Along with the greatest wheat crop
We have also tn. promis. of the great
est corn crop On rccord-no less than
z.7i5. $4,000 bushels. Add this to u
twelve miiiion.bate cotton crop. an ex.
cciicnt tobacco crop. and crops OF bar
Icy. rye. and other minor cereals
ranging from fair To fnc. and II seems
evident that the farmers Of the United
States Will have even more money to
spend. the railroads more freight to
carry. tho merchants more goods to
sell than last. All through the winter
wheat belt there has been n remark
sblc increase In the yield per acrr. The
sain is unbrokcn from Pennsylvania
To California. In Indiana and Ohio.
old states whose soil might be- cx-
pcctcd TO bc showing Hisns Of cxhaus.
tion. the average yield has gone above
t~cn,y bushels TO the acre-a yield
that would have been considered good
few years ago for nm exceptionally
favored farm. In Nebraska the aver
age has risen to 81: bushels. Last
year. when We hnd next To the largest
whca, crop ever produced up to that
,imc. three OF the eleven principal
winter wheat states averaged icss than,
ten bushels to the acre. This year
only one state has averaged less than
twelve bushels and only two less than
fourteen. Last year only three states
went above eighteen bushels: this year
three have gone above twenty. This
years gigantic crop Of 17:.00o.00o
bushels OF wheat OF NIL kinds has been
produced on nm acreage ten per cent.
smaller than the 1899 crop OF lit. .oo0..
900 bushels less.
II In n noteworthy fact that tho
amount Of land sown To wheat In the
United States seemed to reach Its limit
seven years nIo. In 1899 We had 81.
to that OF Kansas-nnd We have never
cqualcd that figure since. In other
words. tho state Of Kansas. II II were
all good wheat land. could produce all
tho wheat No have ever raised In the
United States In any one year. While
We have over three million square
miles OF land In all. II appears that
only about eighty thousand. or less than
three per cent. of the whole. can be de-
voted TO wheat growing. This years
record crop has been raised in the re-
clamatIon of arid lands by irrigation.
The corn crop Is one OF vastly more
importance TO the United States than;
the wheat crop. although that is the
greatest In the world. Our 2.7l3.0o0..
900 bushels of corn this year would
load n freight train extending two
thirds of the way around the globe.
This crop has been raised on 95.535. 900
acres OF land-about twice the acre.
age devoted to wheat and the greatest
ever given to corn In our history. The
American cornhelds are about equal,
In extent to the japanese empire. and
their yield in single year would pay.
on the national debt OF the United
States.
Last year Secretary Wilson said in
his annual report that II tho Ameri.
can farmer could go on without relapse
for three years longer he could look
back over decade and find that in
thoss ten years he had produced an
amount OF wealth equal to one-half OF
the entire national wealth produced by
toll and composed OF the surpluses and
savings of three centuries" One of
the three years has passed. and instead
of relapse there has been an ad.
vance. This years crops alone would
pay for half the railroads of the United
States.