The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-12-06
BIG CROP GAIN SHOWN
BY SECRETARY WILSON
s4s5,OO0,O0O Increase in Farm
Products, Report Shows.
CEREAL VALUES FALL OFF
Need of Local Meat Inspection is
Urged-Agricultural Explorers
Find Valuable New Plants
Some Records Broken.

SOEf1S ACOOAOC L1oACA
Washington, D. C.-The tenth an
nual report of Secretary of Agricul-
lure Wilson was presented to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. 1t describes the
measures to enforce the new meat in
spection and pure food laws, and con-
tains a detailed description of cur
rent crop and live stock conditions.
The new form of spelling is used in
the report, such terms occurring as
<'drest poultry "thro," taftho,"
past by Congress" "dropt," thru"
and 'lookt."
The laws made by Congress at it's
last session, Secretary Wilson says,
have required and received special
attention. The meat law is being en-
forced and inspection is now made in
"a thousand houses Not less
than thirteen hundred experts have
been added to the inspection force.
The economic revolution in the art
and science of agriculture continued
during 1906, Secretary Wilson con-
tinues, with tremendous results on
the National prosperity. The value
of crops continues to rush forward
beyond comprehension, and crops are
straining the freight-carrying ability
of the railroads.
Taken at that point in production
at which they acquire commercial
value, the farm products of the year
have a farm value of $6,794,0OO,O 900.
This is $4S5, 100000 above the value
of 1905, $685., 000, 900 above that of
1904, z 100000 above hat of
1908, and $2,077,000,0 600 above the
census of 1899.
While the value of all cereals
"dropt" about SAC, 100000 below the
total of 1905, and about $12, 100000
below the total of 1904, the number
of bushels for 1906, which was
1858, 100000, was 12O,0O0,O 900 bush
els above the yield of 1906 100000
900 above the yield of 1904 and
$50, ZOO, 900 bushels above the yield
of 1903.
Corn remains by far the most val
liable crop, estimated at $~1,100, 000,-
600. Next comes the cotton crop,
which, including seed, should be
worth to the growers nearly $780,
100000. The value of hay, which is
third in order, approaches ~$600,0 00,-
600. Wheat may be worth $780,
600, 900; oats $500, 100000, potatoes
$3.50, O0O, 900.
Barley, with a value of $65, 000,-
900, shows a gain Of tw~enty-one per
cent. in production in the past seven
years. The tobacco crop will be
worth about $55 100000. A remark
able development is that of the sugar
beet, now the ninth crop in value.
The production in 1906 is placed at
$4,000 long tons, valued at $S4,-
coo, 900. The value Of all kinds of
sugar and molasses aggregates $751;
000, 600.
Passing to the Bureau of Animal
Industry, Secretary Wilson says the
Federal meat inspection was conduct
ed at 1853 establishments in ifty-
eight cities, and 2 ,901,284 animals
were inspected at the time of slaugh-
ter. This represents the greatest
amount of work done in any one
year since the inspection was inaugu-
rated in 1891.
Of the animals inspected 1888
carcasses and 126,159 parts of car
cases were condemned for disease or
other cause. The total cost of the
meat inspection, including the micro
scopic inspection of pork for export,
was ~$852,561.7O. The Secretary,
however, urges the need of local in
spection.
The farm still overshadows the
mill, the factory and the workshop
in providing exports, and with his
surplus beyond the nations need the
farmer has loaded the fleets of
oceans. For the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1906, this surplus has been
exported to the value of nine hun
dred and seventy-six millions, the
largest amount ever reached by agri-
cultural exports for this or any other
country and exceeding the export
value of 1901, previously the record
year.
Five thousand seven hundred and
forty-nine samples of imported food
products were examined in the ifs
cal year. OF the 1916 samples which
were found not to comply with the
law. 531 were released without pref
udice, because it was evident that no
intent to defraud ~existed;577 were
admitted, after being relabeled SO as
to comply with the provisions of the
law;138 invoices were required to
be reshipped beyond the jurisdiction
OF the United States.
The effect Of the food~-inspection
law on foreign commerce has been
sanitary, the report says. In many
cases food products which were for
merly very generally misbranded are
now found to be almost universally
free of suspicion.
The search by agricultural explor-
ers In foreign lands for new crops
has been continued. A trained man
has spent the last year in the culti-
waited fields and wild mountains of
North China and Manchuria search
ing for new plants and seeds worthy
TO be transplanted to this country
and for wild forms of our cultivated
fruits and vegetables which may have
characters of hardness or unusual