The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-30

crops this year the farmer finds him
self in better financial condition than
before. He reckons his income in ten
figures, and he is still improving his
farm, buying bonds, lending to his
neighbors, and putting his money into
bank vaults.
Agricultural Exports.
In 1906 this country exported more
than billion dollars worth of agrr-
cultural comm ODDITIES. This was a
world record breaker. But 1907 goes
1906 one better by exporting $4,000
600 more than in 1906. The cotton
exports alone aggregated $4S2 OOO-
900 GOO grain and grain products. s1s4.-
100000; manufactured tobacco,
$3S,0OO,000; oil cake and oil meal,
$26, 100000; vegetable oils. $4,000
600; fruits. $17,00O,O00; animal and
animal products: $685.. 100000. OF
house products or only 100000 600 less
than 1905. Agricultural products i'm
ported during the year aggregated
$627,000,0O0. Chief among the pro-
ducts were sugar. cofree. fbers, fruits
and tobacco. -
Continuing, Secretary Wilson's re-
port In part says:
Durum wheat was introduced into
this country in the years 189s-1902 by
the department, at a first cost of So
900. This years crop is worth $40
O0e, OOO-more than twice the annual
cost OF the entire department; $780,
ooo acres are now used, much of 1t
land formerly valueless. t'the home of
the prairie dog and cactus
Corn Is Still King.
The beet sugar industry has grown
very rapidly during the past fifteen
years. In 1892 the beet sugar fac.
tories turned out 49, 60 short tons Of
refined sugar, and in 1907 the esti-
mated product reached 100000 tons
Alfalfa is wonderful plant for pro-
ducing wealth. 1t not only yields sew
erai cuttings of most nutritious hay
during a season, but actually enriches
the ground on which it grows by TAX
ing nitrogen from the air. The total
crop of alfalfa hay in 1907 is esti-
mated to be worth s100.0o0,0O0.
Irrigation is yet confined almost en-
t1rely to the arid and semiarid regions
OF the west and the rice lands of the
Gulf coast. The irrigated area now
under cultivation in this country Is
1,0OO,0 900 acres. and the crops grown
in 1907 were worth not less than
s175, 100000. Next year the products
Of irrigation farming should be worth
$3.50. 100000.
Corn ranks first in Importance. Be
a live stock feed, "the starch of corn
becomes the fat of the hog and the
finish of the steer" While not as
large as that of 1906, the value Of the
26 per cent above the average value
of the crops of the preceding Ave
years. Eight such crops as that of
1907 would pay for duplicating every
mile of steam railroad in the United
States. with terminals, rolling stock
and all property.
In value the cotton crop of 1907, !
estimated to be from $3.50, 10000 to |
1915. 100000. takes third place, II in |
the final estimates it does not displace |
hay for second rank. The commercial |
expectations are that the crop will be |
found to be the third one in size ever |
raised.
The wheat crop of 1907 is 625,576,-
900 bushels, per cent less than tho |
average quantity for the five preced-
ing years. But the value is about |
$500, 100000 or 5h per cent more |
than the average.
The seven cereal crops produced !
4 .125, 100000 bushels. showing a loss |
Of 214.00O,00 bushels. or per cent |
below the fve-year average, the loss |
being chiefly due to oats. The total |
value is s2.37s,000 600; this exceeds !
1906 by S296,00O,000 and is % per |
cent above the average.
Jodd-When I want to get rid of my wife |
for a few days 1 just send for my rela- |