Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-12-18
PRODUCTS OF 1908 TOTAL over
$7778.O GOO. 600.
Report of Secretary of Agriculture
Shows Number of Farms to Be
G,1oo,ooo an Increase of SO Per Cent
During Past Ten Years-wheat
Worth ss2o, 100000

The capital of the farmer in the
form of land, buildings, improvements
live stock, implements and machinery
is supposed to be now worth about $685.
ooo,ooo,o 900, an increase of rs or so per
cent over 1890, says the secretary of
agriculture in his annual report to the
president.
The number of farms in 1890 was
4,564,e41; in 1900 they numbered $751;
372, and the present number is esti-
mated to be 100000, an increase of
1875 per cent over 1890.
Agricultural Production in 1908.
The farm value of all farm products
of 1908 reaches the most extraordinary
total in the nation Is historv-$7, 77s,-
900 900 This is about four times the
value of the products of the mines, in
GLIDING mineral oils and precious met
ais. The farmer contributes 81 per cent
Of the raw materials used in those man
ufasturing industries which depend
mostly or considerably upon agricul-
tural materials, and these industries use
AZ per cent of all materials used in all
industries.
/ Greatest of all crops is Indian corn,
whose production this year is 2,643,-
900 600 bushels. The value of this crop
is $1,s15, 100000.
The greatest hay crop in hisaory has
been gathered this year, 68,000,ooo tons
or 12 per cent above the average Of
the preceding five years. Its price Il
So per ton less than it was year ago
but still the farm value of the crop /
:, $621, 900 900, or 6 per cent above tn
v fve-year average.
It Wheat Above Average.
g Wheat is 11a per cent above the five
u year average in production and 20 Pc
II cent above in total value. The 100000
coo bushels of this crop are estimate
'e to be worth $e2O,0 900 to the farmer
OK sat. Q00. 900 more than the most val
able wheat crop heretofore produced.
y Although tgressoat crop suffered fro
dTduth &hs u value E-iss 1921 100000 +
81 7ss ,o0o, 900 bushels, or 10 per ce
above the fve-year average value a.
4 per cent below the average produ'
The barley crop, 1877 100000 bushe
A. is IS per cent above the fve-year ay'
e. age and its value, $s6,OOo,ooo, is % r
X cent above. Both have been exceed
en- only once.
ay Nearly 100000 short tons of be
he sugar will probably be made from I
crop of this year, and the factory val
les of this and of the bees pulp is abe
TX $45. ooo. 900. About 407 900 short tc
Of raw cane sugar were produced t
year, an amount perceptibly grea
ct than the high production figures OF K
or five former years.
'AA Dairy and Hennery-
Although the farmer gets hardly
cents pound for his butter, betw'
10 and 4 cents quart for his milk
79 about ~ cents for each egg, yet
o'' value of the farm products of the da
90 cow ia getting close to $8o0,ooo,o
I'd. and the value of the eggs and poul
u'u produced on the farm is worth as mi
a.' as the cotton crop, seed included, or
hay crop, or the wheat crop.
The aggregate value OF animals
and slaughtered and Of animal pr
rc ucts at the farm amounts to alb
thrse-eighths of the value of all I'll
an products, estimated upon the cen
basis. and is getting nearer and nea
to $4,000, 100000.
'iv0 The exports of agricultural prodt
pVn IA the fiscal year 1908 were valued
'ne 81 OFT 900, 900, an amount greater t
90 for any year except 1907, the reduct
'a'n of ss7 900, 900 under that year be
oan chiefly due to the falling of in "a
w. Of cotton exports.
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