The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22

| CT than the high production figures of four or five former years.
 The sugar beet and sugar cane crops are together worth about $56,000, ,000 to the grower. The sugar made from cane and beets, the pulp, the syrup and the maple sugar and syrup, it is estimated, are worth this year $94,- 000,000
 Fewer Potatoes; Worth More. :. Unfavorable weather made the potato crop only 275,OO0,O00 bushels, or per cent below the five-year aver age, although the value, St90000, ,000, is Is per cent above and was never equaled by any former crop.
 Tobacco production is still low in comparison with recent years, but the price is probably a little above that of 1907, when there was a decided in crease above former years. The value of this crop is about the same as for 1907 and is higher than at any time before that year
 OH dCCOuIlt OL lIe SANlSiHOly iC" price of hops in 1907, the average pro duction and value of 1908 are low and have been exceeded in many former years.
 For the first time this year the value of all farm crops exceeds $5,000,- 000,000, and of this total the value of !he corn crop is about one-third; wheat, hay and cotton combined make more than another third, and the smaller crops the remainder, or near ly one-third.
 Balance in Export Value. The exports of agricultural products in the fiscal year 1908 were valued at S1, 17, ,000 000, an amount greater than for any year except 1907, the reduction of $37 100000 under that year being chiefly due to the falling off in value of cotton exports.
 The exported cotton was valued at $43S, ,000, the grain and grain pro. ducts at S215 100000, and the packing house products at $196,000,000.
 The imports of agricultural products of 1908 were valued at S540,o0D,O0G in the countries from which exported, a reduction or SS7 ,006,000 below the value acr .917. Imports are mostly si!.s, wool, hides, coffee, various Vege tables, flores and oils, fruits, sugar and molasses, tea, and tobacco. The exports of forest products are begin. ming to decline, chiefly in lumber and timber. The imports of such products declined in 1908 mostly because of India rubber, but there were gains in imports of pulp wood and wood pulp.
 The total exports of the United States in 1908 Here apportioned il value as follows:
 Animals and animal products, 16 per cent; cotton and cotton produces, 27 per cent; grain and grain products, F per cent; all other products chiefly sustained by agriculture, per cent: forest products and other products chiefly dependent upon them, 8 per cent; exports that are not agricultural nor of forest origin, either fully or in principal degree, 31 per cent
 Secretary's Message of Cheer.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says that the magnificent figures of the farmers contribution to the exports of this country and to the favorable balance of trade are maintained in spite of this country's immense growth in popula- ton and the extraordinary immigra- tion and non-agricultural peoples, and also in spite of the diminishing frac. tion of the population that is en- gagged in agriculture; and that no analysis could more strongly indicate the progressive efficiency of the farm CTS labor and capital and of the tell ing effects of the agricultural sciences.
 Secretary Wilson reviews in detail the work done by his department to benefit the farmers and closes his re- port as follows: '.The farmer had many reasons for his Thanksgiving in 1908, as he did in recent years. He has reaped as we'll as he sowed He has obtained more of the means with which to imporve his farm. to in crease his capital, to become more generous consumer of the goods of other producers, and to add to the things that count for better living and more pleasant life"
 The following statement is being credited to President Stanley Hall. of Clark University: Woman is