The daily sentinel., 1909-12-01
AL ;,14j'IIpc i
SMASHED
RECORD
Secretary of Agriculture Announces
Today That Farm Products for
Year Worth Nearly g Billion.
Never Before Elualled.
THE FARMERS Truly ARE KINGS
[By Associated Press. |

IBy Associated Press.
| Washington, Dec. l.-Most pros
porous of all years is the place to
which 1909 is entitled in agriculture,
declares the secretary of agriculture
in his 18th annual report, made pub
lie today. The value of farm prod
ucts is so incomprehensively large
that it has become merely row OF
| figures. For this year it is $S,760.-
| 000.0 900, gain of 500 millions over
| 1908. The value of the products has
nearly doubled in ten years. The re-
port says:
Eleven years of agriculture. be-
ginning with production of s4.41T.-
100000 and ending with $3.50, ,000.-
900! A sum of 10 billions for the
period! II has paid off mortgages;
| 1t has established banks; 1t has made
better homes; it has helped to make
and ans itrms' IT has E d as2s si:@s snT ~
for Improving hisdoii and 'makinG- It
| more productive"
The most striking fact in the
worlds agriculture is the value OF
he corn crop for 1903, which is
hiut 81. l.720.0O0,000. 1t nearly
: ulls he value of the clothing and
personSl adornments of 76 million
people, according to the census of
1900. The gold and silver coin ana
bullion of the United States are not
OF greater value. 1t has grown up
from the soil and out of the air in
100 days-15 million dollars day
for one crop, nearly enough for two
Dreadnaughts daily for peace or war.
This crop exceeds In value the aver
age of the crops of the five preceding
years by SO 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. With
cotton lint selling at 1871 cents on
the farm November / and with cot
ton seed selling for about S25 a ton.
the lint and seed of this crop are
worth about $50 million dollars TO
the farmer.
Third in value is wheat, worth in
the neighborhood OF 725 million dol
lars at the farm, and this largely ex-
ceeds all previous values. The No
vember farm price was almost an
even dollar bushel, price which
has not been equalled since 1881.
This Is the third wheat crop, in
point of size, with 725 million bush
els.
The hay crop is valued at 665 mill
ion dollars; oats at 400 million dol
lars; potatoes at 212 million dollars.
and tobacco at nearly 100 million
dollars. Beet and cane sugar and
molasses and syrup, from farm and
factory, Will reach the total of about
95 million dollars. The barley crop
is worth SS million dollars. flax seed.
SO million dollars, uud billion
pounds of rice, 25 million dollars.
The production OF all cereals com
bined is 4,711,000, 200 bushels. an
amount considerably greater than
that for any other year except 1906.
This is the year of highest produc-
tion for potatoes, tobacco, beet sugar,
all sugar, and rice; next to the high
est production for corn, oats, and all
cereals, Compared with 1905, gains in
value are found all along the line. the
exceptions being barely. buckwheat,
rye and milk. The increase for cot
ton, lint and seed, is S20S,000, 900:
wheat. Sl07 100000; corn, S1O5.-
0o0,0Oo hay, s29,OO0.O0O; oats.
S22 ,0O0.000; tobacco, $4,000, 900;
potatoes, s15.O0O,00O.
The Increase in the value of farm
products this year over 1908, $685.
O,OOO, 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 manu-
featuring industry. The value of all
crops, $500, 100000. would make a
half payment on the value of all
steam railroads. according to the val
uation of 1904.