The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-01

Most prosperous oil All years Is inc
place to which l9aq Is entitled In ngri-
culture, declares the Secretary ot Agri-
culture In his thirteenth annual report
made public today. ihc value OF 1arm
products IS so incomDrehcnsloly large
that IL has become merely q row OF hg-
ureS. For this year IL Is S15J, ,@p.pD. Il
gUin OF $50. 9.Op0oJI over 1SS. The value
OF the products has nearly doubled IN
ten years The report says, Eleven
years OF agriculture, beginning with n
production OF N.n5 10000 and ending
with $. 100. 0O0.Opp. y sum OF S0.0el,vpo-
90 for the period II has paid OIL mort
cages. IL has esu blished banks. II has
made better homes 1T has helped TO
make tho farmer citizen OF the world.
and II has provided him WIN means lor
improving mis- soil and making 1t moro
productive"
Farm Production OF 1Go-The most
striking fact I'm the worlds agriculture
which is about Sl.I2O. wp,~O. II nearly
equals the value of the clothing and
personal adornmcnts OF 1GV1V00 people.
according 10 the census OF 1850. The gold
and silver coin and bullion OF tho Unit
ed States are not Of greater value. II
has grown up from the soil and out oil
the air In 10 days-SlS, S,OJ9,US day Tor
one crop, nearly enough Tor TWO Dread
nauGhts daily for peace or war. This
crop exceeds in value tho average OF
the crops Of the hyo preceding years by
10 per cent.
Cotton Ia now the second crop in val
uc. and this years cotton crop IS easily
the most valuable one 10 the farmer
that has been produced. WIN coItoh
lint selling at l3.I cents on the farm no
Nembcr ] and with cotton seed SellnS
| for about $25 per ton. the llnc and seed
| OF this crop worth about $50 0Oo.-
00J 10 the farmer No cotton crop since
| 1919 has been sold by farmers for as
high a price per pound as this one.
Third In value IL wheat, worth about
| S725. .Oo0C Cl0 at the farm. and this largely
| exceeds all previous values Tho No
I Hoo
dollar a buShel, a price which has not
been cduulcd since ISL This Is me
| third wheat crop I'm point OF size, with
| - 100000 bushels. -
The hay crop Is valued at $sS5 000, COO
| oats 1T 500, 10000, potatoes at S2l2Vp.-
| Og1; and tobacco at nearly $lOl.0W~1.
| beet and cane sugar and molasseS ana
syrup. from farm and factory, VIII rchch
the total OF about S95.0gp.OGO The barley
| crop is worth SSS.0010Cp, iiaXsecd S6 UN.-
90, md 1.000,0J0.o0O pounds OF rice S2o,-
| Ol0O0
Comparisons with Former Years,-Thc
production OF oil cereals combined Is
| I'll, elO.OoO bushels. an amount consider
| ably greater than that for any othor year
| except 1896 II exceeds the average of
| the preceding five years by 6,5 per cent.
| The value OF all cereals In 1919 has new
cr been eQunled In a previous year II
| Is almost exactly 5000, 900. or "a per
| cent above the nVo-year average.
Compared with tho average of the pro-
| vious five years all principal crops are
greater In quantity lhlS yeur eNCoPt Not-
! ton. flaXseed, hops, and cane sugar
| but without exception cHory crop Is
| worth more TO tho farmer than the hVe-
| year average,
| for potatoes. tobacco beet sugar, all su-
| gar and rice: next to the highest pro-
| ductlon for corn. oats. and all cereals.
Compared with 1908, gains In value arc
| found all along the line, tn" exceptions
| being barley. buckwheat, rye and milk
The Increase for cotton. lint aud seed
Is y2CS 100000, whent, 10'Oncg9 corn
| SlO5 90, hay. S2o0O.00o. oats S32.WO,-
O0O: tobacco. $4,000, 90, potatoes. $1,000
| 600
Tho Increase in the value OF farm pro-
enough 20 buy new equipment OF farm
/ machinery for over 100000 farms, Tho
+ value OF the cereal crops To the farmer
would pay for all OF the machinery
| tools and implements of the entire mum
! ufacturing industry. The value OF all
| crops S. 700 O00.OU1 would mako II hn!i
| payment on tho value OF all steam Tail-
roads according tc the Valuation o'
Secretary Wilson concludes his rcvlew
! of tho production Of 1893 as follows.
, "'rho agricultural production ol lp9 must
, add much to the prosperity OF Iatmers'
| The record IA unoNnmplcd In wealth pro-
! duction and tells OF abundance In guam
tlty. Year by year the farmer Is bet,
| ter prepared 20 provide the capital and
make the expenditures needed TO I'm
prove his agriculture and To educate his
! childron FOR farm life and work.
MEAT PRICES.
Rctuil Meat PrlCcs.-SecrctarN Wilson
has just finished a, unique investigation
made for the purpose OF this report re-
| latlng To tho Increase Of wholesale prices
of beef whom sold at remn- Through
| employees OF the Bureau OF Animal In
| dustry inquiries wore made In 81 cities
| large. medium. and small-in all parts oi
| the country. schedule was preparcu
! To record the actual experiences OF re-
! tnllcrs In buying and selling carcass
| or half carcass OF beef, and among tho
| facts asccrt0lncd were tho weight ana
| wholesale cost OF a certain piece OF becl
usually a half carcass. Then followed
! the weight and retail price OF every CUT
| FOR which uniform price was ch0rBcu
! by the retail dea Ter. Thus il became pos
sibIe MOI only to compare gh-priced
| and low-prlccd cuts. but also 10 compute
accurately the tota retail price peI
! pound and consumers cost OF tho bcei
piece for which the wholesale prico per
pound and cost OF the entire piece had
Consumer pays IS Per Cent Above
Whoicsalc.-For tho ~ cities the total
retail cost charged to customers above
the wholesale cost paid by the retl Hers
II ~ per cent. In cities the rate OF IN
crease lH ~ por cent or under. In lV CIT
lee. n 10 30 per cent. In Y cities, II TO
a. per cent. In II cities. ~ TO 50 per cent
and In II cities. over 81 per cent
The average retail price exceeded tn, inc
average wholesale price by 1i.i per cent
In the North Atlantic States; by IS per
cent I'm the South Atlantic: by S per
cent In the North Central: pi pcr cent
IN the Western; and the highest Increase
was found ia tho South Central states
81 per cent.
\ Eroas profit of ~ per cont Was found
I'm New York city and I'm Philadelphia.
> pcr cent In DuGalo. y y, % per cent
in Boston Mass. IL per cent In Bdlu-
moTc. Nd. y per cent In Washington
-. g.. Is uer cent In Chicago III = per
cent IN Cincinnati. Ohio. = per cent IN
Omaha. Neb.. = per cent w kansas 'ity'
No = and - per cent In Minneapolis
and 81 Paul MINI. 90 per cent In MI
waukec. Wis. and Detroit. Mich. 50 per
| cent ln ST. LOuts. Mo, - per cent IN NO
bile Ala. g per cont In san Francis-
co. - per cent in Seattle. and 81 per
cent 10 Denver. Colo.
The lower the grade Of beef the greater
| the percentage of gross pTonI IN hos
ton. Tor Illustration. the rate of gross
| profit Is nearly twice as Ereat Tor bccI
| costing s cents at wholesale aH Tor beef
| costing N and liiz cents. lsow-priced
beor ls marked up nearly twice as much
relatively a. high-priccd beef IN other
/ words perhaps n IL safe inference
! that tho poor people pay nearly twice
much profit as tho Neh-to-do people
pay,