The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-12-04
WHAT THE FARMER DOES
TO MAKE PROSPEROUS TIMES
IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY.
During the Past Year He Has
Made Nearly Nine Billion Dollars
on His Farm.

on His Farm.
Most prosperous of all years $
the place to which 1909 is entitled
in agriculture, declares the secre-
tary of Agriculture in his thirteenth
annual report, made public a few
days ago. The value of farm pro-
ducts is go incomprehensibly large
that 1t has become merely a row OF
figures. For this year it is $780,
600 900, gain of sS69,OOO,!oOO over
1908. The value of the products
has nearly doubled in ten years.
The report says:
ELEVEN years of agriculture, be-
ginning with a production OF S4'-
AT, 100000 and ending with $S,f6o'-
100000! A sum Of $7o,G0O,OOO,-
600 for the period! 1t has paid OIL
mortgages, 1t has established banks
it has made better homes, 1t has
helped TO make the farmer citizen
of the world, and 1t has provided
him with means for improving MS
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 $1,72O,OOO,OOO. 1t nearly
equals the value OF the clothing and
personal adornments of 76,O0O,0OO
people, according to the census OF
1900. The gold and silver coin and
bullion of the United States are not
of greater value. 1t has grown up
from the soil and out of the air in
12o days-s15, 100000 day for one
crop, nearly enough for two Dread
naughts 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 1871 cents
on the farm November /. and with
cotton seed selling for about S2o
per ton, the lint and seed of this
crop are worth about $3.50, 100000
To the farmer. No cotton crop since
1878 has been sold by farmers for
as high price per pound as TINS
one.
Third in value is wheat, worth
about $125, 100000 at the farm. ana
this largely exceeds all previous val
ues. The November farm price was
almost an even dollar a bushel,
price which has not been equalled
since 1881. This Is the third wheat
crop in point of size. with 725, OOo,-
600 bushels.
The hay crop is valued at $685.
100000; oats at s400,OO0,OOO; po-
tatoes at s212,000,00O, and tobac'
co at nearly 100000. Beet and
cane sugar and molasses and syrup,
from farm and factory, will reac9
the total of about sos, 100000. The
barley crop is worth sSS,oOO,Ooo'
Aaxseed s36.OOO,O00, and 1000
100000 pounds of rice s25,OoO,coo.
The production of all cereals COM
bined is All, 100000 bushels, an
amount considerably greater than
that for any other year, except 1916.
1t exceeds the average Of the pro-
cedlng five years by S.5 per cent
The value of all cereals in 1909 mas
never been equalled in a preYbus
wear. 1t is almost exactly s3.900,-
100000, or 81 per cent above me
fve-year average.
Compared with the average CT tue
previous FIVE years. all principal
crops are greater in quantity TINS
year, except cotton, faXseed, nops
and cane sugar; but without eXcep-
tion every crop is worth more 10
the farmer than the fve-year aV-
erage.
This is tle lar of highest pro-
dnction Tor Dc taies, tobacco, D1ct
sugar, all suge". and rice; aeNt ~
the highest production for c)rn'
oats and all cereals. Compared with
1908, gains in value are found al!
along the line, the exception beng
barley. buckwheat, rye and mink.
The increase for cotton, lint ana
seed is s2OS, 100000; wheat SlOl'-
600, 900; corn $1O5. 900; hay
$40, 100000; oats S22,00O,OOO; to-
bacco $1S,OOO,0OO; potatoes Sl3''
100000.
The increase in the value OF farm
products this year over 1908, $S09,-
600, ,0O0, is enough to buy ne"
equipment of farm machinery for
over 100000 farms. The value
OF the cereal crops to the farmer
would pay for all of the machinery;
tools AND implements OF the entire
manufacturing industry. The val
ue OF all crops. $500, 100000,
would make half payment on the
value Of all steam railroads, accord
ing TO the valuation OF 1904.
Secretary Wilson concludes his re-
view OF the production OF 1909 as
follows: The agricultural produc-
ton of 1909 must add mach 10 the
prosperity OF farmers. The record
is uneXalnpled in wealth production