The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1909-12-08
ASTOUNDING
CROP FIGURES
Statistics are InCOmpre-
hensibly Large.
GREATEST YIELD IN HISTORY
The American Farmer Has
Surely 0ntdOne Himself
This Year.

Washington, Dec 6.--Most prosper
Gus of all years is the place to which
1909 is entitled in agriculture, declares
the Secretary of Agriculture in his
thirteenth annual report, made public
to-day. The value of farm products is
SO incomprehensibly large that 1t has
become merely a row of figures. For
tits year it is $S,76O,OOO,OOO, a gain of
y 1868 ,00O,OO0 over 1908. The value Of
the products has nearly doubled In ten
years.
The report says, ELEVEN years Of
agriculture, beginning with produc-
ton of $4.417 ,OOOO 900 and ending with
$S,T6O, 100000! A sum of $7O,OOO,OO0,-
900 for the period! 1t has paid off
mortgages, it has established banks,
it has made better homes, it has
helped to make the farmer a citizen
of the world, and 1t has provided
him with means for improving his
soil and making it more productive"
The most striking fact in the world
crop for 1909, which is about $1,720,-
100000. 1t nearly equals the value Of
the clothing and personal adornments
of 10000, 900 people, according to the
census of 1900. The gold and silver
coin and bullion of the United States
are not of greater value. It has grown
up from the soil and out of the air in
120 days-$15, 100000 a day for one
crop, nealy 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 sc 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. No
cotton crop since 1873 has been sold
by farmers for as high a price per
pound as this one.
Third in value is wheat, worth
about 1925 100000 at the farm, and
this largely exceeds all previous values.
The November farm price was almost
an even dollar bushel, a price which
has not been equaled since 1881. This
is the third wheat crop in point Of
size with 725,OOO,OOO bushels.
The hay crop is valued at $665,OOO,-
900; oats at 4OO,OOO,OOO; potatoes at
$212,OOO,OOO. and tobacco at nearly
$1OO,OOO,OOO.
The production of all cereals COM
bined is 4.711,0OO,OOO bushels, an
amount considerably greater than that
for any other year except 1906. 1t
exceeds the average of the preceding
five years by 6.5 per cent. The value
OF all cereals in 1909 has never been
equaled in a previous year. 1t is al
most exactly $4,000, 900, 900, or "a per
cent. above the five-year average.
This is the year of highest produc-
tion for potatoes, tobacco, beet sugar,
all sugar, and rice; next to the high
est production of corn, oats, and all
cereals. Compared with 1905, gains I'm
value are found all along the line, the
exceptions being barley, buckwheat,
rye and milk.
The increase in the value of farm
products this year over 1908, $S69,OO0.-
900, is enough TO buy a new equip
ment of farm machinery for owe g.
100000 farms. The value of the re-
real crops to the farmer would pay
ment of farm machinery for over c.
100000 farms. The value of the ce-
real crops to the farmer would pay for
all of the machinery, TOOLS and imple-
ments of the entire manufacturing in
dustry. The value Of all crops, S5,-
100000, 900, would make half payment
on the value of all steam railroads,
according to the valuation of 1904.