Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-15

about $45, 000, 900. About 100000 short
tons of raw cane sugar were produced
this year and amount p~erceptibly
greater than the high production fig
urgs OF our or five former years.
The sugar beet n sugar cane
crops are together worth about s56,-
{ 1000 to the grower. The sugar made
from cane and beets, the beet pulp.
the strip and molasses Of cane ans
sorghum, II the maple sugar and
strup. 1t is estimated, are worth this
year Ss4,0 0 900.
Live Stock Near sa,6oo,ooo,ooo.
The potato crop is valued at $780,
100000 on a basis of a total product OF
275, 000,0 0 bushels.
Although the farmer sets hardly 90
cents a pound for his butter, between
s and a cents a quart for his milk. and
about 11s cents for each egg, yet the
value of the farm products of the
dairy COW is getting close in $500, o00,.
GOO and the value of the eggs and
poultry produced on The farm is worth
as much as the cotton crop, seed in
cluded, or he hay crop, or the wheat
crop.
The aggregate value Of animals sold
and slaughtered and Of animal pro-
ducts at the farm amounts to about
three-eights of the va!ue OF all farm
products, estimated upon the nsU
basis, and is getting nearer and near
er to $4,000, 00o, 00G.
The exports OF agricultural products
in the fiscal year 1908 We're valued at
SLOT, 600, 600, an amount greater
than for any year except 1907. the re-
duction Of $S7,oo0,o0o under that year
being chiefly due to the falling off in
value OF cotton exports
During the last twelve years the
yearly average agricultural balance OF
international trade In favor of this
country increased from $234,000, 900 to
$411,00 0.ooo,or rs per cent.
Farm laborers' wages are on the
increase, says Secretary Wilson, the
total increase in ten years being 81
Der cent. Good farm .a3orers are paid
$50 to $40 per month and board.
Farmers Cooperate for Profits.
Economic cooperation by farmers
has developed enormously during the
last twelve years. and it is safe to
say that at present mere thar one
half of the 500, 900 farms are repre-
sented in this co-operation, the frac-
ton is much larger IL based on the
total number Of medium and better
sorts Of farmers. to which the coop
orators mostly belong. II is %announc-
ed in this report that The number Of
farmers cooperative economic ASSOC
Citations must be fully $4,000, and may
easily be many more, with a member
SnlD G1SlQS ABOVE S.DUU UUU without
counting duplicates.
The lines along Whict farn1ers have
more especially developed co-opera-
ton are fire, live stock, and tornado
insurance, with about 100000 policy
holders; butter and cheese making
and selling; irrigation: the warehouse
in" Of grain and COTTON; telephone
service, and cooperative buying and
selling. The buying is conducted
mostly by cooperative stores and
more. extensively by groups of farmers
who buy potatoes, wheat. and other
products for seed, or who buy from
Certain merchants and manufacturers
under an agreement for discount from
regular prices.
Associations to regulate, promote,
and manage the details Of selling pro-
ducts of cooperating farmers are
found in all parts of the United States.
There is cooperation for selling by
the growers Of fruits. vegetables. nuts
and berries; by live stock men; by
the producers of cotton and tobacco,
wheat, sweet potatoes fax, oats, poul-
try, and honey. Farmers cooperate
to sell milk and city supply. to sell
citrus fruits, apples, ana SO on with
a long list.
The meat inspection force exercised
supervision yer the Strengthening and
packing operations ut 7S7 establish
ments in 211 cities and towns-a gain
over the previous veal CT s~eventy-nine
establishment and twenty-five cities
and towns,
Animals inspected before slaughter
numbered 63,906,511. Their order mum
erically was hogs. sheep, cattle, calves,
n goats. OF the ANNALS inspected at
slaughter. 175,126 oaycasses and 704
666 parts were condemned, 1oS. 519
carcasses were passed for lard and
tallow, and s3,6S9,s9 passed for food
tuberculosis was the cause for con-
~der1nation Of about three-fourths of
the cattle ~carcasses and about two.