The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-01
Wonderful Growth of Country
Shown by Agricultural Report

Following is a portion OF the official
synopsis OF the report OF the Honorable
James Wilson, secretary of agriculture.
which, furnishes striking evidence of the
growth and prosperity Of America and
OF the permanent position OF Importance
occupied by the farmer in the production
of national wealth:
Production in 1909.
Most prosperous of all years is The place
to which 1909 Is entitled In agriculture.
declares the secretary OF agriculture in
his thirteenth annual Peport. made pub
lie today. The value OF farm products
Is SO incomprehensibly large that It has
this year it is SIS, 7GO, 600 900, gain OF
1868. 900. 900 over 1908. The value OF the
products has nearly doubled in ten years.
The report says; ELEVEN years OF agri-
culture. beginning with produc!ion of
Si,l47000,0 900 and ending with $500
600 900, a sum of $4,000, 100000 for the
period II has paid off mortgages, II
has established banks, It has made bet
ter homes. II has helped TO make the
farmer a citizen OF the world. and ii has
provided him with means for improving
his soil and making 1t more productive"
Farm Production of 1909.
The most striking fact in the worlds
agriculture is the value OF thc corn crop
for 1909, which is about Sl.730. Coz. .O0G. 1t
nearly equals the value of the clothing
and personal adornments % '6. .gVV coo
people, according to the census of 1890,
The gold and silver coin ana bullion OF
the United States are not Of greater
value. 1t has grown up from the soil
600 a day for one crop, nearly enough
for two DreadnaugEts daily fc- peace or
war. This crop exceeds in value TIE
average Of the crops OF the llve pleCeC-
ing years by SO per cent
Cotton is now the second crop In value.
and this years cotton crop IS easily the
has been produced With cotton lint sell
ing at 1877 cents on the farm November
l and with cotton seed selling for about
$25 per ton. the lint and seed OF this
farmer. No cotton crop since 1873 has
been sold by farmers for as high n p:!ce
per pound as this one.
Third in value is wheat worth about
S725, 900, 900 at the farm. and this large
ly exceeds all previous values. Th5 No
vember farm price was almost an even
been equaled since 1881 THIS is the third
wheat crop in point OF size. with I25,-
900 900 bushels,
The hay crop is valued ut $500 000,
900; oats at $io0 000. 900. potatoes at S2l2,-
600 900 and tobacco at nearly 100000.
900. Beet and cane sugar and molasscs
reach the total OF about sos, 900, 900, The
barley crop is worth SSS 600. flax
seed $36 O00. 600 and 1000 600, 600 pounds
OF rice S25,0O0,0 900.
Comparisons With Former Years.
The production of all cereals combined
=,
slderably greater than that for any other
year except 1906. 1t exceeds tho aver
age OF the preceding five years by 60
per cent The value of all cereals in
| 1909 has never been eQualcd in n pre-
vous year. 1t is almost exactly 5000
| O00 600. or "a per cent, above the five
| year average.
Compared with the average of the pre-
vlous five years. all principal crops ar.
greater In quantity this year except cot
| ton. naXsecd. hops, and cane sugar: but
t,li =
more 10 the farmer than the iiVc-year
| average.
This is the year Of highest production
! for potatoes, tobacco, beet sugar all sugar
| and rice; next to the highest production
for corn, oats, and all cereals. Compared
with 1905, gains in value are found all
along the line. the exceptions being bar
| ley, buckwheat. rye and milk The In
crease for cotton. lint and seed, IS S20s,
| 900. 900: wheat. $l0T 200, 600, corn, S10b, -
00O. 900; hay $50. 100000, oats. $4,000 0c0 (;
| tobacco, $4,000 600, potatoes. $l5. 900.
The Increase in the value OF farm pro-
ducts this year over 1905. $S69. 100000, is
enough TO buy q new equipment OF farm
machinery for over 6.000.oo0 farms. The
value OF the cereal crops to the farmer
| and implements OF the entire manufac-
| turing Industry. The value OF all crops.
s5.7OO,OOO.oOo. would make half pay
according TO the valuation OF 1904.
Secretary Wilson concludes his review
| Of the production of 1903 as follows;
THE agricultural production OF 1909 must
add much to the prosperity of farmers.
| The record is uneXamplcd In wealth pro-
ductiou and tells OF abundance In guam
tIty, Year by year the farmer Is better
| and better prepared to provide the capt.
tai and make the expenditures needed to
improve his agriculture and TO educate
his children FOR farm life and work"
Secretary Wilson has just finished a
unique investigation made for the pur-
pose of this report relating. to the In
sold at retail. Through employees Of the
bureau OF animal industry Inquiries We're
AGde in fifty cltics-larso, medium, and