Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-12-18
VALUEOF OUR FARMS
PRODCTsOF 1908 TOTAL OVER
81 778.OOO.OOO.
Report of Secretary of Agriculture
Shows Number of Farms to Be
100000, an Increase Of SO Per Cent
During Past Ten Years-wheat
Worth $e2o,ooo,ooo

The capital of the farmer in tn,
form of land, buildings, improvements
live stock, implements and machiner,
is supposed to be now worth about $2s,
600, 100000, an increase of rs or 80 De
cent over 1890, says the secretary O.
agriculture in his annual report to tn,
president.
The number of farms in 1890 wa
I, 564,o41; in 1900 they numbered 5,737,
372, and the present number is esti
mated to be 100000, an increase o.
1915 per cent over 1890.
Agricultural Production in 1908.
The farm value of all farm products
of 1908 reaches the most extraordinar,
total in the nation g history-$7,7 IT'S,
OOO,OOo. This is about four times tn,
value of the products of the mines, in
GLIDING mineral oils and precious met
ais. The farmer contributes 81 per cen
Of the raw materials used in those man
industries which depend
mostly or considerably upon agricul
tural materials, and these industries us,
AZ per cent of all materials used in al
industries.
Greatest of all crops is Indian corn
whose production this year is 2,643,
100000 bushels. The value of this croI
is $685. 0O,O 900.
The greatest hay crop in history hal
been gathered this year, $4,000, 900 tons
or IL per cent above the average Of
the preceding five years. Its price ii
So per ton less than it was year ago
but still the farm value of the crop il
1921 100000, or per cent above the
fve-year average.
Wheat Above Average.
Wheat is IL per cent above the five
year average in production and % pei
cent above in total value. The $50, 600,
BOO bushels of this crop are estimated
to be worth $500, 900, 900 to the farmers
Or $66,00O,0O0 more than the most valu
able wheat crop heretofore produced.
Although the oat crop suffered from
1routh the value is 1921, 100000 fol
1S9,0o0,O00 bushels, or 10 per cent
above the ive-year average value and
3 per cent below the average product
The barley crop, 167, 100000 bushels
is 10 per cent above the fve-year aver
age and it's value, $50, 100000, is 20 pei
cent above. Both have been exceeded
only once.
Nearly 100000 short tons of beet
sugar will probably be made from the
crop of this year, and the factory value
Of this and of the bees pulp is about
S45, 100000. About 4O7, 900 short tons
Of raw cane sugar were produced this
year, an amount perceptibly greater
than the high production figures of foul
or five former years.
Dairy and Hennery.
Although the farmer gets hardly 2C
cents a pound for his butter, between
and cents quart for his milk and
about ~ cents for each egg, yet the
value of the farm products of the dairy
cow is getting close to $80O,0OO,OOO
and the value of the eggs and poultry
produced on the farm is worth as much
Is 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
nets 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 $3,O0O,00o 900.
The exports of agricultural products
in the fiscal year 1908 were valued al
81 ,017, 100000, an amount greater than
for any year except 1907, the reduction
Of $37, 100000 under that year being
chiefly due to the falling off in value
Of cotton exports.
Economic Cooperation.
Economic cooperation by farmers has
developed enormously during the last
l2 years and it is safe to say that at
present more than .one-half of the
!, 100000 farms are represented in this
the fraction is much larger
# based on the total number of medium
and better sorts of farmers, to which
The cooperators mostly belong. 1t il
in this report that the mum
Der of farmers cooperative economic
must be fully $4,000 and
nay easily be many more, with mem
Dership rising about 100000 without
duplicates.
The National Forests.
The number of national forests is
now 1s2, and the total area 16s,OOO,00C
acres. At So per thousand feet stump
age the timber standing in these forests
is worth $sOO,OOO,OOO. These forests
now contain one-ffth of the standing
timber in the country.
Prosecution of Offenders.
In 4O1 cases brought at the instiga'
tion of the department against railway
companies for violating the twenty.
eight hour law" Qimiting the number
Of hours stock can be kept in cars
without unloading), fines and costs
amounting to nearly $4,000 have re
.n1ted