The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-12-19
FARMERS EARN $6794,OOO,OOO THIS YEAR
:, n1od &c 1905 the Marvellous Sum of $324,OOO,OOO
Farmer Is Getting Wealthy, Learning more AOout
His Own Business, and Improving his MethooS

that most of the increase over 1903
lis due to horses and meat animals,
and this is so partly because OF the
Idepartments much increased estl-
innate of the number of these animals
last January, and more largely be-
lcause of higher prices than year
iagO.
The price of milk ran higher than
lin 1905, but the value thus gained
lin wealth produced was, perhaps,
more than offset by the lower prices
for butter. So in the case of poul-
try the gain in live and dressed poul-
try was more than balanced by the
reduced egg value, since the mean
farm price of eggs, as ascertained by
the department, declined from 1871
cents during 1905 to II cents during
1906.
Crops. in a general balance of gain
against loss in value, in comparison
with the crops of 1906, have made
substantial but not large gain
about s22,00O.000 so that the pre-
vious foremost year in value of pro-
ducts. 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 country by $485, OOO,-
600 over 1905.
On the side of gains over 1908,
two short crops are conspicuous; hay
leads with a gain of perhaps $780,
| 100000 in value and the oat crop
is second. with a gain of possibly
S14.O0O,O00. Barley and cotton seed
each promise a gain of $40, 900;
| 00A. tobacco 81 -
600 900 or more, and hops ST, OOO,-
| 0O0.
Against these gains are the losses
Eof three abundant crOps-S6O, OOO,-
| 600, more or less, for wheat, and
S1O,O00,O00 each for corn and pota-
toes. The loss on rye and cane SUI
gar may be about half million dol
dals each, if anything. The net de-
cline for all cereals may be S4O,OOO,-
900.
Corn Is King.
Corn remains by far the most val
liable crop, and the figure that 1t
may reach this year is $1,1OO,OOO,
! 600 for 2,8S1, 100000 bushels-per-
haps a little under the value of the
next largest crop, that of 1905.
The cotton crop, fiber and seed
combined, follow corn in order OF
value, although it is only three
ifths of the value of the corn crop.
No comments here must be regarded
as indicating what the department S
estimate of the cOttOn-fiber produc-
ton is to be. Upon the basis of the
general commercial expectation of a
crop it should be worth to the grow
er nearly 100000.
In Texas alone the cotton crop is
greater than that of British India
and nearly three times that of Egypt,
and it is half as much again as the
crop of the world outside of the
United States, India and Egypt.
Hay is a crop that receives small
popular attention, and yet it is the
third one in value if cotton seed is
included in the cotton crop, and this
year it approaches 100000, 900 for
a product that is short by perhaps
100000 tons.
Wheat-1he fourth crop in order
of value is wheat, which this year
may be worth over $3.50, 100000, a
value that has been exceeded in sew
eral years; but in quality this year
crop, with it's 740,000,000 bushels
is only 100000 bushels below the
largest crop grown-that of 1901
Oats-1he crop Of oats on account
of unfavorable weather has fallen
below the usual amount, but its
value will be perhaps not far under
S3OO,000,000, or about the same as
|, for 1905, and not much under the
highest value reached in 1902.
Decline in Potatoes.
Potatoes-With a probable croI
of fully 300,000,000 bushels, pota
toes reached next to their highes
, production, which was in 1904; bu
! the total value, $3.50, 100000, rests
: upon rather low average pei
| bushel and has been exceeded II
| other years. =
Tobacco, which has shown weak
/ ness for several years on account o
! low prices, while not yet recovering
, Ii it's former place in pounds grown
| has a crop this year of 629, 100000
f pounds, with a value which is il
: close company with the three years o
= highest value, and it is expected vii
} be worth $55 ,O00,000, or perhap
} $2,0O0,000 more,
Sugar-A remarkable development
f has been made within a few year
4 hv now the ninth crop-beet sugar
, Tho production in 1906 is placed a
+ $4,000 long tons, with a value sup
posed to be near $34, 1000, 900. Sew
en- years ago only 1927 tons wer
d produced. and their value was abou
S $7,000,0O0.