The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-06
WEALTH Of SOUTH
IN FARM PRODUCTS
CONTINUED From FIRST page.

5000 625. was more than half the value
OF It's cotton crop, and nearly a third
OF the total value, Slice, 626iI0, OF tie
corn crop of the country. The Southern
crop, 10, G00.S9i bushels, was within few
illion of II quarter OF the total crop,
2,921, 4l6,@1 bushels, Of the country.
Less than half dozen of the Southern
States can be classed rs wheat-growins
ones, though that grain was raised last
year In all OF them but T'loridn. Here
Texas, which led the South in coril-grow-
ing, also led in wheat-growing, with H.
135,lS6 bushels, taking the place which
Maryland held in 1905. The South In
creased It's production from 62,923,4pl
bushels in 1905 to 7SosG639 bushels. while
the whole country made Il less increase
proportionately. from COZ 912. 4s9 busuels 20
735. 260,97O bushels, AT the same time, the
total value of the Southern wheat crop
increased from s56,29902i to s52,e2s,ul,
while the value for the whole country
decreased from s5lS372727 to 'ta5 500 80
Every State. except Maryland and Missis-
sipp showed an increased production.
and there is no reason why the total for
the South might not be doubled with
profit to the growers.
Hay and Tobacco.
"The hay crop Of the country was
SVo,vVV'vVv
renter than the value OF the whert crop
But the proportion was not maintained
in the case OF the South, whose hay crop
brought s54s99,200. less than r.h IT
the total for the country. s592.5S9.6i1.
though the crop itself was nearly 100000
tons less in 1906 than in 1905. and amount
4 to 42l1.1l3 tons of tn etotal. 57145.959
tons, OF the country.
I'm tobacco, though still preponderating
MS n producer, 467,613SS0 OF the total, 6S2,-
42s.590 pounds, raised In the whole coun-
try, being it's share, the South had in 1906
less favorable showing to its credit rs
to values than had the country at large.
For It's more than 4s7, 100000 pounds
brought less than s4o,ooo,ooo while the
2l5, 900 pounds in the rest of the coun
try brought nearly $29,000000.
Tho comparatively small oat crop OF
the South, Cos bushels. valued at
SOS, 24l 1874, out OF the total in the coun-
try. g649Ot,522 bushels. valued at $780,,
2?2.97S. finds explanation in the facts
ibout the hay crop. involving. of course
the fact that cotton-seed products are
fed to stock more largely in the South
than elsewhere, and also the fact that
he South is not raising as much stock
as 1t should.
Potatoes and Rice.
..Pennsvlvania alone raised in 1876 near
" as many Irish potatoes as all the four
teen Southern States, whose crop was
o4,331545 bushels, valued at sl7,199,329. the
crop being something more than one-thir-
teenth OF the total. 2Os,o3s .3S2 bushels. of
the whole country, and its value being
nearly q ninth of the fatal. sl51.547,S92.
Thera Is indication in that that the South is
capable of doing much better as an Irish
potato grower. though 1t already pro
duces probably so per cent. of the sweet
potatoes of the country.
The South raises all the rice of the
country, and Its crop last year was IL
S54 7GS bushels, valued at sl6,12l,29S, the
vanity exceeding that OF 1905 nv nearly
100000 bushels. and the value being near
ly 100000 greater than that of the pre-
ceding year