The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-12-01
REPORT OF
SEC. WILSON

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prosperous of all years is the place
TO wnica 1909 is entitled in agricnl-
tIre. declares the Secretary of Agri-
culture in his Thirteenth Annual Re
port made public today. The value
of farm products is so inconprehen-
sibly large that il has iscome merely
a row of figures. For this year it is
$3.50. .Gn0.000 gain of S69,O0O,OOO
over 1908. The value of the products
nas nearly doubled in ten years Tae
report says, Eleven years of agricul-
tura, beginning with a production of
S4.4I7 100000 and ending VITA S.
76e, ,00O, coo. A sun of $10,00O,0OO,-
090 for the period. II has paid off
mortgages, il has established banks,
Il has made homes, it has helped to
make the farmer citizen of the
world. and il has provided him with
means for improving his soil and
making il more productive"
Farm Production of 1909.
The lost striking fact in the
worlds al,iculture is the value of the
corn cop for 1909, which is about ST.
730.0oo.O0o. 1t nearly equals the val
ue of The clothing and personal adorn-
n'ents Of 76.00O,000 people. according
70 the census of 1900. The gold and
silver cola and bullion of the United
States ara not OF greater value. 1t
of the air in 120 100000
day frc-n one crop, nearly enough for
two Dread1aughts daily for peace or
war. This crop exceeds in Value the
average of the crops of the five pre-
ceding years by Sc per cent.
Cotton is now the second crop in
value. ard this years cotton crop is
easily the most valuable one to the
farmer that has been produced. Vita
cotton lint seliag al 12.7 cents on the
farm Nogember- and with cotton seed
selling for about S25 per ton, the lint
and seed of this crop are worth about
$3.50, ,00u. 900 to the farmer. No cot
ten crop since 1878 has been sold by
the farmer for as high a price per
pound as This one.
Third in value is wheat, wOrtl
s725. 900. 900 az the farm. and this
largely exceeds all previous values.
The November farm price was al
nost an even dollar q bushel. a price
which mas not been equaled since
1881. This is tie third wheat crop in
point Of size with 725,oO0.000 bushels.
Tie hay crop is valued at SG65,000.-
O00: oats AT s400. 600 900; potatoes at
s21o, 900 900: and tobacco at nearly
500. .a00. 900. Beet and cane sugar and
molasses and syrup from the farm
and factory viii reach the total of
about $4,000 600. The barley crop is
worth SIS. 600. .OeO, ffaxseed S35.0OO.-
06O, ard 1.OOO.000000 pounds of rice
at S25. 600. 900.
Comparison with Former Years.
The production of all cereals com
bined is Al 600 900 bushels, an
amount considerably greater than
that for any other year except 1906
II exceeds the average of the pre-
crding FIVE years by 6.5 per cent The
value of all cereals in 1909 has meyer
been equaIed in a previous year. II
is almost exactly $4,000. 100000 or 81
per cent above the fve-y~ar average.
Compared with the average of the
previous five years. all principal
crops are greater in quantity this year
except cotton. fiaxseed. hops, and
cane sugar: but without exception
every crop is worth more 10 the far
-ner than tfe five year average.
This is he year of highest produc-
tion for potatoes, tobacco, beet sugar
all sugar and rice: next to the ligh
est production for corn, oats and all
cereals. Compared with 1908, gains
in value are found all along the line
the excepsinns being barley. buck
wheat, rye. and milk The increase
for cotton, lin and seed, is $20S,O00.
600: wheat. s10s 200. 900: corn. S1O5,
600, 900. hay. $4,000, 900; tobacco
s1s.000.oOO: potatoes, S15.0o0.0O0.
The increase in the value of farm
products this year over 1908. SS69,O0o,
600. -s enough to buy new equip
mens os farm machinery for over 900,
farms The value of the cereal crops
10 the farmer would pay for all th'
machinery, tools and implements o'
the sntire manufacturing industry
The value of all crops. $500. 600, 200
would make a half payment on tbs
value of all $; cam railroads. according
to the valuation of 1904
Secretary Wilson concludes ais re
view of tie production of 1909 as fol
lows: "The agricultural production
of 1909 must add much to the pros
perity o. farmers The record is un
exampled in wealth production ant
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