The Lamar register., 1906-09-05
IMMENSE CROPS
REcoRD-BREAKiNo PRODUCTION
IN ALL SECTIONS
WHEAT, CORN AND COTTON
Twenty-four Million Bushels of Wheat
Above Any Previous Years Produc-
ton-NearIy Three Billion Bushels
of Corn.

tIon-NearIy lnTee sllIIon Bushels
of Corn.
The crop reports issued by the de-
partment of agriculture on August 10th
indicated another record-breaking year,
says Golfers Weekly. Preliminary re-
turns put the wheat crop at 493, 434, 900
bushels The spring wheat crop was
estimated at 27S,S30,OOU bushels. max
ing total probable wheat harvest of
of 772, 264 900. which is more than was
ever produced in any other country in
the world, about 1G0,OO0,O00 more than
our own average production for the ten
years preceding, and nearly 240O0.O0O
more than our greatest previous years
production in 1901.
Along with the greatest wheat crop
we have also the promise of the great
est corn crop on recoId-no less than
2,7l3,194, 900 bushels. Add this to
e-million-bate cotton crop, an eX-
cellent tobacco crop, and cI'-ps of bar
ley, rye and other minor cereals
ranging from fair to fine and it seems
evident that the farmers Of the United
States will have even more money to
spend, the railroads more freight to
carry, the merchants more goods to
wheat belt there has been remark
able increase in the yield per acre. The
gain is unbroken from Pennsylvania.
to California. In Indiana and Ohio,
old states whose soil might be eX-
pected to be showing signs of eXhaus-
ton, the average yield has gone above
twenty bushels to the aCre-a yield
that would have been considered good
Il few years ago for an exceptionally
favored farm In Nebraska the aver
age has risen to 23.2 bushels. Last
year, when we had neXt to the largest
wheat crop ever produced up to that
time, three of the eleven principal
winter wheat states averaged less 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 772,000,O0O
bushels of wheat of all kinds has been
produced on an acreage ten per cent.
smaller than the 1899 crop of l1i,O0O,-
900 bushels less.
II is a noteworthy fact that the
amount of land sown to wheat in the
United States seemed TO reach its limit
seven years ago. In 1893 we had 3d.
5SS,574 acres in wheat-an area equal
to that of Kansas-and we have never
equaled that figure since. In other
words, the state of Kansas, If it were
all good wheat land, could produce all
the wheat we have ever raised in the
United States in any one year. While
we have over three million square
miles of land in all, it 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.T13. 00O,-
| 900 bushels of corn this year would
load freight train extending two
thirds of the way around the globe.
This crop has been raised on %, 535, 900
acres of land-about twice the acre
age devoted to wheat an. the greatest
| ever given to corn in our history. The
American corniields are about equal
| in extent to the japanese empire, and
| their Weld in a single year would pay
off the national debt of the United
States.
Last year Secretary Wilson said in
his annual report that If the Ameri-
can farmer could go on without relapse
FOR three years LONGER he could look
back over "A decade and find that in
| those 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.