The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-12-25
GREAT VAlUE Of
FARM PRODUCTS
NEARLY GloMT HUNDRED NIL,
LION oolLAss GAass&o "
oAiRv cows LAST WAR
LARGE Elp0dT TRADE
cHASa2Gs THAT AaG aaAx,wo
FARM LIFE eaEFERAoLG TO
- usE IN e.riGa

FAME LIVE pWGeeWA0l8 70
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Washington.-Ths report OF Secre.
tary oe Agriculture Wilson for the mast
year shows that the highest crop val.
ues In comparison with former years
are held BY corn. wheat. rice, all Ger
eals. potatoes. sucpS beets, possibly
tobacco. BY beet sugar sd BY beet and
cane sugar combined. Next to the
highest value vas reached by hay. bar.
ley. oats. sAsAr case and cane sugar.
and perhaps by cotton.
Cottoo-yt seems liksly that the cot.
tor crop h. sas Of the highest three
ever produced. but with Q value next to
the highest or perhaps more, although
the farm price OF cotton this year Is
below the price Of last year by more
than / cent.
For the first time In the history Of
this country's agriculture, the value of
the cotton crop. including seed, has
apparently exceeded the value Of the
hay crop. which has heretofore held
second place.
The largest croB, Of rice ever raised.
23,00o,0o0 bushels. Is this years. with
value Of about Sls.OOO.OOO. the crop
being 20 per cent. above the five-year
/ average and Its value. % per cent.
above.
| Animal Products-Aithough the
farmer gets hardly 20 cents pound for
his butter. between 5 and cents a
quart for his milk. and about IL cents
for each egg, yet the value Of the farm
products of the dairy COW Is getting
close to 100000. .OO0, and the value of
the eggs and poultry produced ON the
farm IL worth rs much as the cotton
crop. seed included, or the hay crop, or
/ the wheat crop.
The aggregate value Of animals sold
and slaughtered and OF animal prod:
ucts. at the farm amounts to about
three-eighths Of the value of all farm
products. estimated upon the census
basis, and Is getting nearer and nearer
to $4,000. 900 900.
The exports of agricultural products
el.ol7. .oe0. 900. an amount greater than
for any year except 1907, the reduction
of $37.O00,0o0 under that year being
chiefly due to the falling off In value Of
cotton exports.
The exported cotton vas valued at
$43S, S,000. 900, the grain and grain prod
ucts at &215. .OO0. 900, and the packing
house products at $196 100000.
The imports Of agricultural products
In 1908 were valued At $54O, 900, 900 in
the countries from which exported, re-
duction OF $s7.OOO,0O0 below the value
for 1907. The exports Of forest prod
ucts are beginning to decline. chiefly
In lumber and timber. The imports
Of such products declined in 1905
mostly because Of India rubber, but
there were gains In imports Of pulp
wood and wood pulp
The exports Of domestic agricultural
products in 1908 being worth S1,O17.-
000, 900, the expurts Of foreign agricxl-
tural products $40. .00O. 900. and the im
ports 0e agriealtarai products $54O.000.-
900, . balance Of trade of the enormous
value Of $4SS. 900 900 in favor of the
farm prodscts Of this country results,
An amount exceeded only in 1901 and
1898.
In his review Of the last twelve
months Of agriculture, the secretary
remarks that momentous changes have
occurred to agriculture during the per-
!od. Features of great import have
been introduced: forces have become
operative whose results are already
enormous. with the certainty Of cumu-
lative and accelerated future conse-
auences. for the nations good. The
farmers work and harvest have had
the benefit Of more varied knowledge
and more effective intelligence. His
life and living have undergone transfer
nations which increasingly make the
farm preferable to the town.
The farmers are slready demonstrat-
ing that they can provide for natur-
ally increasing population. The extra
ordinary prosperity Of the farmers fol-
lowing their low financial condition
dozen years ago and earlier has ena-
bled them to pay higher wages for farm
labor than before. From 1895 to 1906
farm wages increased in a greater de-
gree than general prices did. The per
centage Of increase OF prices Of all
commodities. as indicated by Brad
streets index. was Sc per cent, while
the wages Of farm labor by the month
for the year or season without board
increased 3s per cent. and with board
Il per cent.: wages by the day in har-
vest without board increased 46 per
cent. and with board 55 per cent: the
wages Of ordinary labor by the day
without board increased 5S per cent.
and with board 81 per cent. In the
matter OF wage increase compared with
prices, the farm lahorer has Jared bet
Ter than the workingman employed in
manufacturing and mechanical indus
tries.
Average Yield Of Barley.
According to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. the average