The Cairo bulletin., 1906-11-30
GROWTH OF THE
NATIONS YIELD
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
MAKES REPORT SHOWING
MUCH PROGRESS.
EXPERIMENTS GREAT AID
To the Farmer-Farm and Food Pro
ducts Lead Export List--Grati
flying Conditions in All
Branches.

Was hington, Nov. 29.--Secretary O
! Agriculture James Wilson, in his an
nual report to the president, made
public today says that much progress
has been made by the farmer in the
sciences and arts of agriculture, aideC
! by the researches of the department
tsates that "the time of the man and
| the yield Of the acre become more
responsive as more imperative de
mands are made on them"
| The economic revolution in The art
| and science of agriculture continued
| during 1906, with tremendous results
| on the national prosperity. The value
| of crops continues to rush forward
beyond comprehension; crops are
straining the freight carrying ability
of the railroads; and the farmer,
alive to the Importance of the place
that he occupies in the nation, Offers
this yearly account of himself to the
people The farm products of the year
have a value of very nearly six thou
sand eight hundred milliond dollars,
nearly half billion above the value
of 1905 and exceeding by over two
billion dollars the figures for the last
census.
Corn is King.
Corn remains by far the most vain.
able crop. estimated at S1,000,000, 900.
Next comes the cotton crop, which,
including seed, should be worth to
the growers nearly sG40,000.000. The
value Of hay, third in order, ap-
praches 5000. 900. Wheat. the
fourth. may be worth $459,0o0; 900;
oats 100000, 900; potatoes, sl50,0OO-
900. Barley, with a value of 5000,
600. shows d gain of q per cent in
production ii ffse pastTseven yeaIrY
The tobacco crop will be worth about
Sj5 100000 A remarkable develop
ment is that of the sugar beet, now
the ninth crop value. The production
in 1906 is placed at three hundred and
forty-five thousand long tons, valued
at s34, ,000, 900 Seven years ago, the
value of this crop was S7,000,000. The
value of all kinds of sugar, sfrup, and
molasses aggregates $4,000 900.
The farm still overihadows the1
mill the factory and the workshop in
providing exports, and with his sur
plus beyond the nations need the far
mer has loaded the fleets of oceans.
For the focal year this surplus has
been exported to the value of 1876
900. 900, the largest amount ever
reached by agricultural exports for |
This or any other country and exceed |
ing the export value of 1901, pre-
yiously the record year Among chief |
exports cotton maintains a long lead |
with a value of $4O0,000,0o0. The |
packing house products exported |
amounted to value of 100000, 600.
GoodsImported.
The imports of agricultural pro
lucts consist mainly of the same ar
iclcs year after year, and reached
heir highest value in 1906-S554..
ia, 900. These included packing house
PRODUCTS. sugar and molasses. coffee,
silk. vegetable fibers. wool tobacco,
ruits and forest products.
Agricultural exports exceeded SINH
ar exports by si33, 100000, while pro
lucts of all other industries eecured
balance in our favor of only $S5,
700. 900.
If real estate, doemstic animals.
,ther live stock. implements and ma
hinery are included. the farmers
apital has increased since the cen
us valuation by probably sS.00J,00O.-
90. the present valuation being prob
bly, s2S,000, 100000.
The new meat inspection law prom
ses TO correct the inadeQuacy of the
avs under which the department had
0 carry on the inspection.
With the authority now vested In
he secretary and with a largely in.
reased appropriation, the service
rill be greatly extended in scope and
ill include as rapidly as possible all
Establishments engaged in interstate
r foreign commerce which come
riihin the Law. II must he remem
cred. however. that while the de-
artment insists on inspecting the en-
re output cf each establishment at
'hich its inspection Is maintained
he federal inspection does not and
annot reach establishments doing !
usin,4ss exclusively within the state.