The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-01
Farm Products Figures Larger
by S869,OOO,000 Than Last
Year, and Total Value of All
Estimated at So, 100000, 900.
CORN Is KING AND LEADS
ALL THE OTHER CROPS
Cotton Is the Heir Apparent
and Wheat Is Next in Line
of SuCceSSiOn-Hay Pota-
toes and Tobacco Follow,
ALL RECORDS SMASHED

| Washington Nov. 30-MOst prosperous
Of all years is the place to which $50.
| is entitled in agriculture, declares the sec
rotary of agriculture in his thirteenth an
/ nual report made public today. The
value Of farm products is so mcompre-
hensibly large that it has become merely
a row of figures For this year it is S.
| $50 100000, a gain OF 1858, 1000 over -90S
The value of the products has nearly
doubled in ten years. The report says;
Eleven years of agriculture, osSinniug
with a production of s4,41i. 100000 and end
ing with SS,760gJm0i a sum of $1,000, 100,
600 for the period! 4 has paii off mort
cages, it has established banks, it mas
made better homes, it has helped to make
the farmer "a citizen OF the world. and il
has provided him with means for improv-
ing his soil ana making il more product
i've"
Farm Production Of 1903.
The most striking fact in the worlds ag-
rfCulture is the value of the ccrn crOD
for 1893, which is about ST, 600 80. 1t
nearly equal the value Of the clothing and
personal adOruments of 100000 people,
according to the census of 1900. The gold
and silver coin and bullion OF tie United
States are not of greater value. Tt has
grown up from the soil and out of the ar
ia ~ lcl1 4lafa-lsyyo Il NclA ADE Nlt- NtODt
nearly enough for two Drcdnaughts daily
Tor peace or war This crop exceeds in
value the average of the crops of the five
preceding years by SO per cent
Cotton is ROW the second crop I'm value
and this years cotton crop is easily re
most valuable one to the farmer that las
been produced. With cotton lint selling at
1871 cents on the farm November ! and
with cotton seed selling for about So per
ton. the lint and seed of this crop are
% n IN
cotton crOp since 1879 has been sold by
farmers Tor as high price per pound as
this one.
Th.rI in value is wheat. worth about
$4,000 600 al the farm, ana this largely
exceeds all previous values. The Novem-
Der farm price was almost an even dol
IAN : DASHED. a. price W.slEtt hrs E5i rsen
eQuatled since 1871. This ~ the third wheat
crop in point Of size, with 7z5,o90,OJ9 bush
els
The hay crop is veiued at $500 O03;
oats ait S455100,o00; potatoes at -yUJ, 900;
and tobacco at nearly SlC0 900, CO., Beet
and cane sugar and molssses and syrup.
from farm and factory, VIII reacn the To-
tai Of about S95.Oo0QO0 The barley crop is
worth ySS090,000 flax seed S360000C0, and
lO.OU0000 pounds of rice S25,000000.
Comparisons With Former Years,
The production Of all cereals combined
Is 4,ll,W0O00 bushels, an amount cOlsid-
erably greater than that for any other
year except 1906. 1t exceeds the average
of the preceding five years by 60 per cent.
The value of all cereals in 1903 has nsv5~
been equaled in previous year. 1t Is
almost exactly S3,Gc0000.00C or "a per cent
above the five-year average.
Compared with the average of the pre-
viOus five years, all principal crops are
greater in quantity this yea except cot
ton, flaXseed, hops and cane sugar; but
without exception every crop is worth
more 10 the farmer than the five-year
average
This is the year of highest production
for potatoes, tobacco, beet sugar al sugar
and rice; next to the highest production
for corn oats and all cereals. Compared
with 1893, gains in value are found ali
along the line, the exceptions being bar
ley buckwheat, rye and milk. The in
crease for cotton, lint and seed is S20S,-
100000; wheat, SlOl, U0OO: corn, S105 000,-
COO; hay. S29000000: oats, so 600 900; tobac-
co, SlS0vDUO0i potatoes, Sl5,OOCO0.
The increase IN the value of farm pro-
ducts this year over 1905 SS69 ,000.009, is
enough TO buy a new equipment Of farm
machinery for over 100000 farms The
value of the cereal crops to the farmer
would pay for all of the machinery. tools
and implements of the entire manufacture
ing industry. The value of all crops So
700 100000 would make a half payment on
the value OF all steam railroads, accord
ing 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 uneXampled in wealth prOduc-
ton and tells of abundance in quantity
Year BY year the farmer is better and
better prepared to provide the capital
and make the expenditures needed to inn
prove his agriculture and TO educate his
children for farm life and work"