The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-12-06
AMERICAN FARMERS
LED THE WORLD
Immense Production OF American
Lands In Past Year.
S1,1OO,OOO.OO0 IN CORN ALONE
Cotton Valued At $64O, 100000, Hay
At 100000, 900, Wheat At
$450,O00,0 O0-rIr. Wilson'S Re-
port.

SGullHS 10 the PRESIDENT the an
nual report of the Department of
Agriculture states that the time
of the man and the yield of the
acre become more responsive as
more imperative demands are made
upon them"
The meat law is being enforced,
and inspection is now made in
more than COO houses, he says.
Not less than 1900 experts have
been added to the inspection 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 i'll some of our
Southern States. In dealing with
the gypsy and browntail moths OF
New England, imported parasites
have beer successfully established.
y beginning has been made in the
method of undermining the grading
of grain, and the law providing for
the humane treatment Olive stock
in transit is receiving careful at
tention.
The farm products of the year
have farm value of very nearly
SO, 500, ooo, 900, nearly $500, 900, 900
above the value Of 1905 and ex-
ceeding by more than 5000, 600 900
the figures for the last census.
Corn remains by far the most
valuable crop, estimated at ST.
100, OOO,O 900. Next comes cotton,
which, including seed, should be
worth to the growers nearly 5000
600, 900. The value of hay ap-
proaches 5000, 900, 900. Wheat,
the fourth crop, may be worth
$3.50, 900, 900; oats, $500, 600, 900:
potatoes, $3.50, 900, 600. Barley,
with value of sos, 900, 900, shows
a gain OF 21per cent. in production
in the last seven years. The to-
| baCCO crop will be worth about
SIS, 1000, 900. A remarkable devel-
Opment is that of the sugar beet,
now the ninth crop in value. The
production in 1906 is placed at
545, 900 long tons, valued at S34,-
900, 900. Seven years ago the
value of this crop was s., 900, 900.
The value of all kinds of sugar,
syrup and molasses aggregate
$4,000, 900.
On the whole, crop values have
been neither notably high nor low
in comparison with recent years,
but the high price level in the
general average has raised the
total crop value somewhat as COM
pared with 1905 and the high pre-
ceeding years.
The farm still overshadows the
mill, the factory and the workshop
in providing exports. For the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1906,
this surplus has been exported to
the value of $4,000, 900, the
largest amount ever reached by
agricultural exports for this or any
other country and exceeding the
export value of 1901, previously
the record year. Among chief ex-
ports cotton maintains long lead,
with value of $500, 900, 900. The
packing,house products exported
amounted to a value of S2o7 ,ooo,-
900.
The imports of agricultural pro-
ducts amounted to S554,ooo, 900.
These included packing house pro-
ducts, 500, 900, 900; sugar and mo-
lasses, $50, ooo, 900; coffee, $751;
900, 900; silk, S54, 900, 900; vege-
table fbers, $50, 100000; wool,
$4,000, 900; tobacco, S22, 900, 900;
fruits, S2I, 900, 900; tea, SI4, ooO,-
900. In forest products, 1906
shows an import value exceeding
$4,000, 900, against a total value
of exports Of similar products
amounting to $1,000, 900.
ForI9o6 the agricultural exports
exceeding similar imports by
S433, 900, 900, while products of all
other industries secured a balance
in Our favor of only SIS, 900, 900.
During the last II years the ex-