Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-16

CT less than OHe-lOiftN OI Qiiii toi dollars oyer the value of 1905, xhich was then the highest record. The principal increases oyer i3Oo m these imports were $2o, ,p0o,90t for packing house products. almost entirely composed of hides, skins, hair and sri5lles. aed St,400. .Gt0 for tobacco.
 On the other hand, tfrra were decreases in imports which nearly balanced the increases, and prinll- pal among these were coffee. with q loss of $11 ,o00. .00o; sugar and mo lasscs, with loss of $f2 .600,0 ,000; wool and silk with loss Of 7,000,- 1OOeacl, and tea. with aloss Of s1,- a50.00O.
 Farmer Keeps Nations Credit.
 The so-calicd balance of trade in the international exchange of agri- cultural commodities continues to run in favor of this country by an enormous amount, for 1906 the agricultural exports exceeded sim liar imports by $433 100000, an amount which places this year with ahe seven high years beginning with 1898 and much above the balance of 1905.
 While the farmer placed to the national credit in other countries 1433,00O,000 in 1906. other produc- CTS. all included, secured a balance In favor of this country of only $S5. 100000.
 Having produced fabulous wealth during the year, and having sent to foreign countries out of the wealth of the preceding year enough so pay the interest-bearing national debt, the farmer may now take ac- count of has farming capital The iarse rate of increase in it's value since 1900 is not a mere matter of aieher price level and higher land values.
 Tn the meantime the farmer has earned surplus inc61ne. much of 5arming e0Nip >. 1234567s9O1- Shich he A invested in his farm as eqxpastnr, in buildings, in nany improvements, in live stock, sn machinery, and in furtherance If the comforts aud pleasures of lving
 The farm real estate, as ascer- sained by ttis department last year, increased in value $6.13i ,00O 900 since the census year. or enough to raise the census value to $22 900, O,OO0. Domestic animals were worth $2.9'9, 100000. according to the census enumerators, and now they are estimated to be worth more than s4,0VO, 100000.
 If real estate, domestic animals, other live stock and implements and machinery are combined, the farm CTS capital as composed of these items. has increased, by perhaps $S,000. 100000 since the census val nation, CT about 40 per cent, and, 1ow amounts to perhaps $28,0OO,- 900 900.
 How Farmer Uses Wealth.
 As to how the farmer has used his surplus earnings. Secretary Wilson says
 The laImer's standard of living is rising higher and higher. The com mon things of his farm go to the city to become {uxuries. He is be- coming traveller; and he has his telephone and his daily mail and new Wspapc, His life is healthful to body and sane to mind. and the noise aud fever of the city have not become the craving of his nerves, nor his ideal of the everyday pleas arcs of life. A new dignity has come to agriculture along with it's economic strength; and the farmer bas new horizon, far back of that If hi. prairie and his mountains which t, more promising than the skyline of the city.
 Farmers Progressive.
 ! more scientific agriculture, the secretary says, would t4ye raised crops in excess of the demands: but, when consumption demands and prices sustain, the inner will for the d'Har5 aoWledge md example are ( lder to 4im s93 miracle required .o louDl or even 5esebie. the pre- il. iau oi cotton per acre. The etI,-a .ys,y t9a ba increased by one