The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-05
SOUTH'S FARMING
MANUFACTURERS RECORD DIS- CUSSES IMPORTANCE OF AGRI-
 CULTURE.
AIthouxh Dixie Is Making Rapid strides IndustTiaily, Its Living Is SfiH Derived From Filling of
 Sail

Baltimore, Md. Jan. 4-(SpeciaL)- In it's issue this week, amongs it's re- views of Southern material progress, The Manufactursrs Record Record says; n,
 grssp of the South, inspired by the not able progress it has made in recent years in manufacturing, in mining, in numbering and in railroad construction. not infrequently loses sight of that sec tion's agricultural importance. pres ent and potential. When its agri- prone to dwell upon the cotton crop.
 'That crop, in its value, is second among the great crops of the country, but 1t Is in such worldwide demand. many millions of persons depends upon the great industry of which it is the basis, that it is natural for 1t to over shadow at times other .,s,n crops which the ne common with other parts of the coun- try. Buteleading as 1t does the agri- cultural South. cotton has some valu- able allies. as shown by the following values of other crops in 1906:
 Corn ... -. ....... $390,921,625
 Wheat ..... 62,S29,114
 Hay o4'oSs, aVV
 Iooacco ........ 39,9E4oI0
 Oats Soso4l,334
 Irish Potatoes 17,l9s,329
 Rice .-' s.A .s l6'!2l'z9S
 Total .... $610,7SS0Si
 aThe value of the south's corn crop, $3e0,921.625. was more than half the value of It's cotton crop, and nearly of the corn crop of the country. The Southern crop. 729.60o,S94 bushels, was within a few million of a quarter of the total crop, 2,927.416,o91 bushels. of the Less than half a dozen of the South ern States can be classed as wheat growing one. though that grain was raised last year in all of them,but ,oi5 Fior5 in corn growing. also led in wheat growing. with 14,126,1s6 bushels. talk ing the place which Maryland held in 1905. The South increased its produc- ton from 62.923, 404 bushels in 1905, to 7s.0Ss,63s bushels. while the whole country made less increase propor- ticnatsiy; from Ss2,s7s;4ss bushels; to the total value of the Southern wheat crop increased from s56,29s. .O21 to ss2, a29.774. while the value for the whole country decreased from s51S.S72727 to S495, ,332, ,760 Every State, except Mary land and Mississippi, showed an in creased production, and there is no req son why the total for the South might not be doubled with profit to the grow
 The hay crop of the country was val, ued at $5s2,539,671, nearly $9S,OO0,o0o greater than the value of the wheat crop. But the proportion was not maintained in the case of the south. whose hay crop brought $54.s99,2 200, less than tenth of the total for the itself was nearly 100000 tons less in 1906 than in 1905, and amounted to A. 2I1,1l2 tons of the total, 57,145.959 tons.
 Tn tobacco though still preponderat- ing as a producer. 467,613,SS0 of the to- tai 6s2, ,42s,530 pounds raised in the sonth had in 1906 less favorable showing to its credit as to value than had the country at large. For Its more than 467 O00, 900 pounds brought less than S400OO.000, while the 2l5,000.00O pounds in the rest of the country Drought nearly $29.000.000.
 The comparative small oat crop of the south. 64 701, ,695 bushels. valued at S2S,- 3ai,3g4 ,out of the total in the coun- try g64, ,9O4,522 bushels. valued at s306, 2g1 SIS, finds explanation in the facts 4hat the hay crop, involving, of course fhe fact that cottonseed products are fed to stock more largely in the South than elsewhere and also he fact that the South is not raising as much stock as 1t should. a,o ,,.o5 t, ,aoc nearly as many Irish potatoes as all She fourteen Southern States. whose crop was 24,331.545 bushels, valued at s17'1A9S29. the crop being something more than one thirteenth of the total 20s s03SSS2 bushels, of the whole coun- try. and It's value being nearly nintE of the total, $157. S9Z Inere IS m dication in that that the South Is cap able of doing much better as an Irish notato grower though 1t already pro duces probably eighty per cent Of the sweet potatoes of the country.
 saThe South raises all the rice of thf country, and it's crop last year was { a5476S bushels. valued at S16, ,12l ,29S inc ouantity exceeding that of 1905 bS nearly g. ,O00, ,000 bushels. and the Nalut hairo nearly S4 OOO, 900 gerater than tha