Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-10
VALUE OF 1907 CROPS
CREATESTON RECORD
Products OF Soil to Bring sz,4IS,-
100000 to Farmers This
Year.
BILLIONS FOR OTHER THINGS
Hay and Cotton Next to Come,
While $500, 900, 900 Is Wheat
Output.

One billion three hundred and fifty
million dollars. says Secretary of Agri-
culture James Wilson, will be the value
of this great crop of corn. Only four
crops before have exceeded $1,000,00O,-
coo. The farm value of the corn crop
of eight such years as 1907 would pay
for duplicating every mile of steam
railroads in the United States and pay
for their costly terminals. rolling stock
and all property.
The value of the total farm produc-
tons in 1907 exceeded that of 1906,
which was far above that of any pre-
ceding year. The total value for 1907
is $7,412,O00,000, an amount 10 per
cent greater than the total for 1906,
IL per cent greater than that of 1905,
! 20 per cent above that of 1904, % per
cent in excess of that for 1908 and 81
| per cent greater than the total value
\ for 1890
The animals sold from farms and
those slaughtered ON them in 1907 We're
worth about $1,270.000,000
During the fiscal year 1907 the ex-
ports of farm products exceeded the
imports b S444,O0O.O00 a balance that
has been exceeded only four times
in 1893, 1899, 1901 and 1902.
App 'ently the hay crop this year is
more valuable than the cotton crop. On
account of the varieties and qualities
of hay its average price is difficult to
determine. The computed value of the
| 81, 10000 tons OF the crop is $660,000,-
600. The tonnage has been exceeded
several times but the value is sos -0OO,-
600 above the highest previous value,
| that of 1906
In value the cotton crop of 1907, es-
| timated to be from $650,000,000 to
$675,000,000, takes third place, if in the
| final estimates it does not dispiace hay
| for second rank. Though its farm val
ne is probably a little below that of
last years crop in other respects it will
/ be the most valuable cotton crop ever
raised in this country, and per cent
above the average farm value of the
crops of the previous five years.
wheat Is Worth $685. DOS 700
The wheat crop of 1907 is 625,576000
bushels, ) per cent less than the aver
age quantity for the five preceding
years. But the value is about S50o,000,-
| 600, or 515 per cent more than the ay-
erage.
| The farm value of sugar beets, sugar
| cane sorghum cane a9d molasses and
syrup made on the fan is S64,000000.
! Sugar made in sugar ms (includlng
raw cane sugar and refined beet sugar.
amounts to $4,000 short tons, worth
$73,000,000. Other products of the SUI
gar mills bring the value up to 500 .000,-
600; three-fourths of this is farm value.
The oat crop-741, 521 900 bushels
is 10 per cent below the fiye-year ay-
erage. but the value is 26 per cent
above the average, or $360,000,0C0.
Potatoes ,42T 600 bushels-are Q
per cent above the average; the value
is $190,000,000, or 26 per cent above the
| average.
Barley also is per cent above the
average in quantity, while the value is
extraordinary, about So per cent above
the average. The quantity is 147, 1922
600 bushels, the value $115,000,000
Tobacco declined to 645,213,000
pounds, II per cent below the average
in quantity, with value of S67.o0o,000,
or per cent above the average. The
crop is smaller than for many years.
Irrigation is yet confined almost en-
tirely to the arid and semi-arid regions
of the West and the rice lands of the
Gulf coast The irrigated area now
under cultivation in this country is
| II 100000 acres, and the crops grown
were worth not less than $175,000,000
Rye produced 81 100000 bushels, with
a value Of $23,0OO000; a quantity per
cent above the average and a value of
| % per cent above.
The seven cereal crops produced
| ABB, 100000 bushels, showing a loss of
214,000000 bushels, or per cent below
| the UNe-yedT dNeIdSe, liie loss DelllB
chiefly due to oats. The total value is
| $2,37S,0 100000; this exceeds 1906 by
$296,000,0OO and is % per cent above
the average.
Dairy products of the country alone
were worth nearly $S00,000000 Ia 1907,
or much more than any crop save corn.
The poultry and egg products for
1907 should be estimated at more than
$G0nO00,000 in value. In fact these
products were worth more than the
wheat crop.
The total crop Of alfalfa hay in 1907
is estimated TO be worth S100000,000.
During the fiscal year ended June 30,
1907, the domestic exports Of farm
products were valued at $1.0550O0, 900,
or S79,000,000 above the high record
of 1906. Plant products made up four
ffths of this total, cotton alone amount
i ing to $4s2.0O0,000
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.
Crew of Norwegian bark lost in Pa