Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-04
WEALTH PRODUCERS
Products Of the Farms Last Year
Amount to Nearly Seven Bill
lions Of Dollars,
GREATEST CROP WAS CORN
Chief Increase in Value in Farm Pro-
ducts During the Year was in Cat
tie and Horses.

According to the report of the
secretary of agriculture, farm prod
uct IN America during the year just
closed reached 1.-THE enormous total
Of 30, 794. 100000. This exceeds
the record. breaking product of last
year by 1924, ,OOO,O
The value of the farm products of
the nation during the last twelve
months would duplicate the en>ire
railroad system of the United States,
rail for rail, tie for tie, car for car.
The American farm products of 1905
and 1906 would pay for every rail
road in the world, including the en-
tire equipment.
Whatever else may be the cause
OF the movement from the country
to the cities, 1t isn't the unproduc-
tiveness of the farms nor the nm
proftableness Of farming. Prob
ably among no other class of citi-
zens has there been such an advance
in the material comforts and the
general prosperity as among the
farmers.
The toral value of the farm prop
ertles of the United States is es,i-
mated by Secretary Wilson's de-
partment at $2s, 900, 900, 900. This
is an increase of $4,000, 900, 900
SINCE 1900. 1t is more than twice
the capitalization of all the railroads
of the United States, and four and
half times their resl value. The
earnings of the farms for the year
amounted to nearly three times the
net earnings of all the railroads.
Not only are the American farms
the foundation of the domestic
plenty that pervades the land, but
they are the source of the nations
credit abroad. The foreign balance
due the United States on agricul-
tural products for the fiscal year of
1906 is $433, 900, 900, while the bal
ance on all other classes of exports
is only $s5, 200, 900.
In the last seventeen years the
American farmer has piled up the
enormous credit of six billions of
dollars, while the pampered manu-
facturer, with all the stimulus of
protective tariff and other govern
ment favors has a balance against
him of $459, 100000.
During the year 1905 the exports
of agricultural products touched the
high-water mark of 1876, 900, 900,
or $24 900, 900 more than other ex-
ports of the previous record year,
which was in 1901.
secretary Wilson notes the fact
that the chief increase in the value
of farm products during the year
was in horses and meat cattle. The
crops about balanced with the pre-
vious year. The greatest crop was
corn, as usual, its value being ST.
100, 900, 900. Next in line came
cotton, with total OF $64O, 900, 900.
while hay, much ignored by writer's
on national wealth, was produced to
The value of 5000, 600, 900. Wheat,
with total of $3.50, 600, 900, showed
a falling off of about $50, 900, 600.
An astonishing result is reported
in the beet sngar industry, which
amounted to $34, ,oo0,0 against
~, 900, 900 seven years ago.
There is a curious note in the fact.
that, despite The furore over the
packing house disclosures, the ex
ports of that industry exceeded there
of the previous year by ss5, 900, 900.
The secretary's report deals IN de-,
tail with the work of the department.
but the preponderant interest to the
mass of Americans must lie in that
portion that tells the romance of the
wealth wrung from American FARMS
! Regular dance at l. d. S. hati
ltamorrag night.