Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-12-07

Eggs More-Farm Exports Exceed
Imports by Large STANDARDIZATION
Helped Greatly.
The eleventh annual report of Secre-
tary of Agriculture James Wilson, just
made public, opens with the statement
that the farm production for 1907 Is
well up to the average in quantity,
while its value is much above that
of any preceding year. The farmer
will this year have more money to
spend and more to invest than he ever |
had before out OF his years work
This years durum wheat crop is
worth $4,000, O0O-more than twice
the annual cost of the entire depart
ment; 100000 acres are now used,
much of it land formerly valueless, |
the home of the prairie dog and the
cactus"
The beet sugar industry has grown
very rapidly during the past Is years.
Alfalfa is a wonderful plant for pro
duction wealth. The total crop OF
alfalfa hay in 1907 is estimated to be
worth 100000, 600.
Irrigation is yet confined almost en-
tirely to the arid and semiarid regions
of the west and the rice lands of the
Gulf coast, but in time it will doubt
less be practiced largely in the more
humid regions of the country as it is
in similar regions of the old world.
The irrigated area now under cultiva-
ton in this country is 100000 acres,
land the crops grown on this area in
1907 were worth not less than $l75,-
900, 600. Next year, if present prices
are maintained, the products of irri-
CATION farming should be worth $3.50
600, 900.
Corn is King.
Speaking of the chief crops, the sec
rotary says that corn ranks first in
impoI lance Besides its large use as
a human food, as a live stock feed,
the starch of corn becomes the fat
of the hog and the finish of the steer,
thus becoming a great factor in the
production of meats and meat prod
uts for export. While not as large as
that Of 1906, the value Of the corn
crop Of 1907 is greater and is 26 per
cent above the average value of the
crops of the preceding five years
In value the cotton crop of 1907, es-
timated to be from $65O,O00000 to
1915 900, 900, takes third place, if in the
inal estimate it does not displace hay
Tor second rank
Wheat Valuation.
The wheat crop of 1907 is $50, SIS, OOc
bushels, 5 per cent less than the aver
age quantity for the five preceding
years. But the value is about 0,000.-
900. or 515 per cent more than the
average, although the crops of 1900
1902 and 1905 had each a slightly high
er value than that of this year
I The farm value Of sugar beets, SUI
gar cane, sorghum cane and molasses
and syrup made on the farm is $64,
600, 900.
Farms Produce $7,4t2.o0O,ooo
i The value of the total farm produc
il tons in 1907 exceeded that of 1906
which was far above that of any pre-
Il ceding year The total value for 1870
; is $7,412,0OO0O an amount 10 pc
e cent greater than the total for 1906.
e The animals sold from farms ant
IS those slaughted by farmers in 1870
i we're worth about $1.27O, 900, 900, 0
II nearly twice as much as the cOttol
crop.
d The dairy products of the countr
e alone were worth nearly sSO0,O00,O 90
D. in 1907, or much more than any GRO
IF save corn. Prices of both butter an
Of milk have advanced.
The poultry aud egg products fo
it 1907 should be estimated at more tina
k. 5000 900, goo in value. In fact ,thes
u products were worsA more than th
t, wheat crop. In 1899 the farm price {
d. eggs averaged a trife over IL cent
per dozen; in 1907 it was over
Is cents. Dressed poultry sold in Ne
Dr. York in 1899 for 10% cents a pound
Id in 1907 for nearly Is cents.
y, Exports and Imports.
During the fiscal year ended Jur
st 30, 1907, the domestic exports OF far
L products were valued at S1O55, 900, 90
he Or $4,000, 600 above the high recoi
k FOR 1906 Plant products made up fou
nd hfths of this total cotton aloI
n amounting to $4s2, 0O0,O 600.
Cotton is the greatest Of all our e
ports, having, In 1907, 2915 per ce
CT the total value.
Agricultural products valued
10 1921 100000 were imported during Il
". past fiscal year-s403 600, 600 worth
" plant products and 1924 900 wor
Of animal products. The princip
of items smong these imports wer
ID. Sugar and molasses, $4,000, 900; CT
for fee, s7S,OOO,eOO; flbers, s62.OOO.9 90
an packing house products (nostly hid
and skins). ss6,OO0,OOO; silk, s71 90
LA 600; and wool, s42,OO00OO.
ng During the fiscal year 1907 the {
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