Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-12-02
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PRODUCTION IN
1909

Most prosperous Of all years is the
place to which 1909 is entitled in ag-
riculture, declares the Secretary Of
Agriculture in his Thirteenth Annual
Report. The value of farm products
is so incomprehensibly large that it
has become merely row of figures.
For this year it is $780, 900 a
gain of 1868, 100000 over 1908. The
value Of the products has nearly
doubled in ten years. The report
says, eleven years of agriculture,
beginning with a production of $4,-
AT 100000 and ending with $780,
100000! A sum of $4,000 900, 600 for
the period! 1t has paid off mortgag-
es, it has established banks, it has
made better homes, it has helped to
make the farmer a citizen of the
world, and it has provided him with
means for improving his soil and
making it more productive"
The most striking fact in the
worlds agriculture is the value of
the corn crop for 1909, which is about
81, 720 100000. 1t nearly equals the
value Of the clothing and personal
adornments of 100000 people, &C
cording to the census Of 1900. The
gold and silver coin and bullion of
the United States are not of greater
value. It has grcwn up from the
soil and out of the air in 100 days
SIS, 600 600 day for one crop, nearly
enough for two Dreadnaughts daily
for peace or war. This crop exceeds
in value the average of the crops of
the five preceding years by SO per
cent
Cotton is now the second crop in
value, and this years cotton crop is
easily the most valuable one to the
farmer that has been produced. With
cotton lint selling at 1877 cents on the
farm November 1 and with cotton
seed selling for about s25 ton, the
lint and seed of this crop are worth
about $3.50 900, 900 to the farmer. No
cotton crop since 1873 has been sold
by farmers for as high a price per
pound as this one
Third in value ia wheat, worth
about $725 100000 at the farm, and
this largely exceeds all previous val
ues. The November farm price was
almost an even dollar a bushel which
has not been eQualed since 1881. This
is the third wheat crop in point of
size with 725, 100000 bushels.
The hay crop is valued at $3.50
900: and tobacco at nearly $780,
900 900. Beet and cane sugar and
molasses and sirur. from farm and
factory, will reach the total Of about
$95 900 900. The barley crop is
worth sS8, 900, 900; flax seed s36,00O-
600; and 1000, 100000 pounds of rice
s25, 900 900.
The production Of all cereals COM
bined is ALL 100000 bushels, an
amount considerably greater than
that for any other year except 1906.
1t exceeds the average of the preced-
ing five years by 6.5 per cent. The
value of all cereals in 1909 has never
been equa1ed in previous year. 1t
is almost exactly $4,000, 900 900, Or "a
per cent above the five year average.
Compared with the average of the
previous fie years all principal crops
are greater in quantity this year ex-
cept cotton, faxseed, hops and cane
sugar; but without exception every
crop is worth more to the farmer
than the five year average.
This Is the year of highest produc-
ton for potatoes, tobacco, beet sugar
all sugar, sand rice; next to the high
est production for corn, oats, and all
cereals. Compared with 1908, gains
in value are found ali along the line,
the exceptions being barley, buck
wheat, rye, and milk. The increase
for cotton, lint and seed is $208,000,
900: wheat, $1o7 ZOO, 900; corn $685.
900 900; hay $2e, o00. 900; oats $22,-
ooo, 900; tobacco s1s,0o0,00o; pota-
toes SIC, 900, 900.
The increase in the value Of farm