New-York tribune., 1909-12-01
PRODUCTS AMOUNTED
TO sS, 100 900, 900.
Increased $500 900. 900 OUer
ISOS-High Prices for Grain.
Cotton and Medf.
VALUES OF FARM PRODUCTS.


farm products has become so incompre-
hensibly large that il is merely row OF
figures. says Secretary Wilson i'm his
thirteenth annual report. which was
made public to-day. For 1909 il is
$3.50 0O0. coo. an increase OF ss69. 900. 600
over 1905 II was the most prosperous
of an wears for the farmer. The value
u his products has nearly doubled in ten
years. The report says: Eleven years
II agriculture. beginning with a produc-
fion II s4.sl7. .O00 and ending with
$3.50 600 GEO, 4 sum Of s70.000. .O00. .OOO
for the period, n has paid off mort
gages. il has established banks. il has
made better homes, il has helped 10 make
the farmer citizen Of the world and il
has provided him with means for i'm
lroying his soil and making it more pro-
ductiye."
There has been a tendency Of the ami
mails and crops TO increase in value at
The farm at faster rate than all COM
moduies have increased AT wholesale.
Within the wholesale trade. also. farm
products exceed all other classes OF COM
modlties in relative increase Of prices
since 1896 and food is exceeded only by
farm products and by lumber and build
ing materials. The only large exception
% the leading place taken by farm prod
ucts I'm rise of prices is nnfed beef cattle,
she farm price of which has barely be
gun 10 rise above the price level of
lSs6-lsoo.
CORN STILL LEADS.
TIE most striking fact in the worlds
agriculture. the Secretary says. is the
value of the corn crop for 1909. which is
about sl.s20 000. .000. II nearly equals
the value II the clothing and personal
Hdornments Of 10000, goo people. accord
ing 10 the census Of 1909 The gold and
silver coin and bullion Of the United
States are not Of greater value. II has
grown up from the soil and out of the
air in l9O days-Sl5 .000.000 a day for one
crop. nearly enough for two Dread
noughts daily for peace or war. This
crop exceeds in value the average Of the
crops of the FIVE preceding years by SO
ier cent
Cotton is now the second crop in value.
and this years crop is easily the most
valuable one 10 the farmer that has been
produced. With cotton lint selling at
49, cents on the farm on November /
End with cottOnseed selling for about s25
ton. the lint and seed Of this crop are
worth about $3.50 OOO. 900 10 the farmer.
No cotton crop since 1873 has been sold
by farmers for so high a price a pound
as this one
Third IN value is wheat. worth about
aIlln n.r sn.s
exceeds All previous values. The NOvem-
Der farm price was almost an even dollar
bushel. "a price which has not been
squa,led since 1881 This is the third
wheat crop IN point Of size. with 1885,
o0e.eO0 bushels
The hay crop Is valued at sGe5. .OOO. 600;
oats az Ss00.OO0.0O .0O0; po.atOes at s2l2. 600
200 and tobacco at nearly 100000 600.
Eeet and cane sugar and molasses and
syrup. from farm and factory. win reach
The total II about ss5 600 000. The bar
icy crop is worth sSs.000 600. faxseed
'ss.0ooooe, and l.eOO.O0O.OO0 pounds Of
rioe 80. .00O 900
The production OF all cereals combined
Is 4.'ll 0o0oo0 bushels. an amount con-
hderably greater than that for any other
Year except 1906. IL exceeds the aver
age u The preceding five years by 6.5
Der cent. The value Of all cereals in 1909
has never been equalled i'm previous
year u Is almost exactly 1900. 0O0. 600
Or 81 pr cent above the fiye-year aver
age
Compared with the average Of the pre-
Nous five years. all principal crops are
greater in quantity this year except cot
ton, faNseed. hops and cane sugar, but
without exception every crop is worth
more 70 the farmer than the five-year
average
Ihis is the year 81 highest production
iof potatoes. tobacco. beet sugar, all
sugar and rice. next 10 the highest pro-
ouctlon fpr corn. oats and all cereals.
compared with 1908, gains in value are
round all along the line. the exceptions
oeig harley buckwhcat. rye and milk.
ne Increase for cotton, lint and seed is
s-Nooeoo0, wheat. slO7 900. 900: corn.
slos'oe90Oo. hay. s2s. 600. 600: oats. s22.-
ovVVoo: tobacco. slS.O00.0OO; potatoes.
$4,000 600
Tie lncreas, in the value of farm prod
u''s TINS rear over la0s-sSes. .OO0. .0OO-is
7' ~ Dlg "A new equipment OF tafin
machinery f0r more than 5000 900 farms
ne value - the cereal crops 10 the
lariner would pay for all the machinery.
.''is and implements Of the entire manu-
"''lilhs industr. The value Of all
Tois $1,000 coo. 600 would make half
i~gnieni on the value 81 all steam rail
'"ps according 20 the valuation Of ls0i
SOILS NOT WEARING OUT
ihe Secretary docs not believe that
soils II the country are wearing
pn the contrary. the average
"''s - the acre have shown a decided
hpency o. Increase for the last forty
'R 30 FAR as can be observed cases
" ialiufr on the farm are due 90 indi-
''0ual negleci or misjudgment not Incl
"' 10 "a" soii Itself. With regard 10
''haon"d farms in the Eastern States
~ statec that the idea that the soils
Ns bec0me exhausted is a mistaken
''' and The suggestion is made that an
''isiisinS production can be brought
'h through change la farm manage
i aud the infusion Of new and active
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