Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-12-27
FARMERS ARE GREATEST
PRODUCERS IN AMERICA
This Year Their Total Products Amount to
Nearly Seven Billions of
Dollars.

mails last January, and more
largely because of higher prices
than a year ago.
The price of milk ran higher
than in 1905, but the value thus
gained in wealth produced was, per-
haps, more than offset by the lower
prices for butter. So, in the case of
poultry, the gain in live and
dressed poultry was more than bal
anced by the reduced egg value, \
since the mean farm price of eggs, /
as ascertained by the department,
declined from 1877 cents during
1905 to II cents during 1906.
Crops in a general balance of
gain against loss in value, in COM
parison with the crops of 1905,
have made substantial, but not
large, gain-about $50, 600, 900; so
/ that the previous foremost year in
value of products, 1905, is exceeded
by 1906 in both crops and animal
products, and thus this year became
the leading one in value of farm
products in the history of the coun-
try by SASS, 900, 900 over 1905.
On the side of gains over 1905,
two short crops are conspicuous;
hay leads with gain of perhaps
$4,000, 600 in value, and the oat
crop is second, with a gain of pos
sibly S14, 10000 Barley and cot
tonseed each promise a gain of
, $40, 600, 600; beet sugar, $7,ooo,-
: 600; tobacco, $4,000, 900 or more,
and hops, ST., 200, 600.
L. 1O-e-
es of three abundant crops-S60,
: 100000, more or less, for wheat,
t and $4,000 600 each for corn and
5 potatoes. The loss on rye and cane
: sugar may be about half million
dollars each, if anything. The net
r decline for all cereals may be $40,
: 600, 900.
+ Corn remains by far the most val
liable crop, and the figure that il
: may reach this year is 81, 100,
e 600, 900 for 1881, 900, 600 bushels
f perhaps a little under the value
= of the next largest crop, that Of
f 1905.
= Hay is a crop that receives
t small attention, and yet it is the
third one in value if cottonsccd i.
: included in the cotton crop, and thi.
s year it approaches 5000, 600, 600 TO
# a product that is short by perhaps
e 5000, 600 tons.
&c Wheat-The fourth crop in orde
of value is wheat, which this yea
f may be worth over $3.50, 900, 600,
e value that has been exceeded in sew
,r eral years; but in quality this year.
,e crop, with its $40, 900, 600 bushels
= is only 5000, 600 bushels below TIL
as largest crop grown-that of 1901.
10 Oats-The crop of oats, on &C
,e count of unfavorable weather, ha
fallen belo ~ the usual amount bu
w it's value will be perhaps not fs
as under $500, 900, 900, or about tn
same as for 1905, and not muc
, under the highest value reached
If in 1902.
Potatoes-With a probable Gro
n of fully 500, 900, 600 bushels, pots
n toes reached next to their highe:
ct production, which was in 1904 sbl
the total value, $50, 600, 900, res
ne upon a rather low average pc
he bushel, and has been exceeded i
* other years.
ed Barley-Seventh among the croI
in order of value is barley, cere
that has gained 81 per cent in pr
in duction in seven years. The 145
Il 600, 600 bushels grown this yc;
st may be worth sos, 600, 900, bot
lie bushels and dollars being much mo
o. than for the highest preceding yea
I'M 1904 being the previous recol
ON for yield and 1902 for value.
Sugar-A remarkable devclo
on mcnt has been made within a fc
ial years by now the ninth crop-be
ais sugar. The production in 1906
re- placed at 345, 600 long tons, with
RIM value supposed to be near $34, 00C
is 600. Seven years ago only II,
of tons were produced, and their val
d. was about $1,000, O0O-