The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-12-18

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is supposed to be now worth about $685.
zoe, OoO, 900, an increase of rs or so per
eent over 1890, says the secretary Of
agriculture in his annual report to the
president.
The number of farms in 1890 was
4~,564,s41; in 1900 they numbered $751;
372, and the present number is esti-
mated to be $780, 900, an increase of
$3.50 per cent over 1890.
Agricultural Production in 1908.
The farm value Of all farm products
of 1908 reaches the most extraordinary
total in the nations historv-$7,77 S,-
aOO,O00.' This is about four times the
value Of the products Of the mines, in
Guiding mineral oils and precious met
ais. The farmer contributes 81 per cent
of the raw materials used in those man.
ufacturing 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 $685.
00O.O 0 bushels. The value of this crop
is $1,615, 100000.
The greatest hay crop in history has
been gathered this year, 6s,OOO,000 tons,
or IL per cent above the average of
the preceding five years. Its price is
So per ton less than it was a year ago,
but still the farm value of the crop is
$621, 900 900, or 6 per cent above the
fve-year average.
Wheat Above Average.
Wheat is ~ per cent above the FIVE
year average in production and % per
cent above in total value. The 100000
600 bushels of this crop are estimated
to be worth $62O,OOO,oO0 to the farmers,
or $66, 1000, 900 more thar the most valu-
able wheat crop heretofore produced.
Although the oat crop suffered from
drouth the value is 1921 $1,000 for
.7s9, 5000 bushels, or 10 per cent
above the five-year average value and
. per cent below the average product.
The barley crop, 10000, 900 bushels,
is 13 per cent above the fve-year aver
age and it's value, $s6 600, 900, is 80 per
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 bee. pulp is about
81, 900, 900. About 100000 short tons
of raw cane sugar were produced this
year, an amount perceptibly greater
than the high production figures of four
or five former years.
Dairy and Hennery.
Although the farmer gets hardly 20
cents a pound for his butter, between
3 and 4 cents a 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 $500, 900 900,
and the value of the eggs and poultry
produced ON the farm is worth as 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
in the fiscal year 1905 were valued at
SLOT 100000, an amount greater than
for any year except 1907, the reduction
of $37 900, 900 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
IL years and it is safe to say that at
present more than one-half of the
100000 farms are represented in this
cooperation; the fraction is much larger
if based ON the total number of medium
and better sorts of farmers, to which
the co%operators mostly belong. 1t is
announced in this report that the num-
Der Of farmers cooperative economic
associations must be fully $4,000 and
may easily be many more, with a mem
bership rising about 100000 without
counting duplicates.
The National Forests.
The number of national forests is
now 1872, and the total area 16S, 900 ,OOC
acres. At So per thousand feet stump
age the timber standing in these forests
is worth $500, 0oo, OCO. These forests
now contain one-ffth of the standing
merchantable timber in the country.
Prosecution of Offenders.
In 4o1 cases brought at the instiga
tion Of the department against railway
companies for violating the 'ttwenty
eight hour law" (limiting the number
of hours stock can be kept in car,
without ~unloading), fines and cost
amounting to nearly $4,000 have re
suited.
In rs cases for violation of quaran
tine Raws, the fines and costs have e<
eeedE $4,000.
Last year the enforcement of tn
fsod ad drugs act began in earnest