The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-08
Secretary of Agriculture Re
ports Yield Greatest Ever
Known Anywhere.
HIGH COST OF LIVING NOT
TO BE BLAMED ON FARMER
Beet Sugar Production, Water
power Sites and Livestock
Ranges Discussed.

WASHIGTON, Dec. THE report
of james Wilson, secretary of agricul-
ture, is distinctly harbinger Of good
times. Among other things it dis
cusses the high cost of living, beet
sugar production, livestock ranges, wa
ter power, etc, The more important
parts of the report follow:
Nothing short Of omniscience can grasp
the value of the farm products of this
year. is the statement OF the secretary
OF agriculture IN his annual report for
1910. published today, AT no time in
the worlds history has a country pro-
duccd farm products within one year
with, value reaching Ss,926. Ooo,o ooo
which Is the value of the agricultural
products OF this country for 1910.
The value Of farm products from 1890
10 the present year has been progressive
without interruption. If the value of the
value for this year is lSe. or almost
double the value for the census year
eleven years ago.
During this period of unexamplcd
years, during which the farmers of this
country have steadily advanced in pros
perity and wealth and in economic in
dependence. in intelligHnce and knowl<
farm products is $4,000, 900, 0o0."
SOlu CIOp 1lGm6uuOu6,
The corn crop of 3,121,3 ,3Sl, 900 bushels
exceeds that Of the record year. 1906,
and is greater than the average crop
Of the preceding five years by IL per
cent While the value OF this corn crop
is below that OF 1909 and also OF 1905
1t can hardly be reckoned as less than
81 500 600, 000 a sum sufficient to can
eel the interest bearing debt OF the
United States. buy all of the gold and
,,s.l IL .f .f.t ,,f
the earth In 1909 and still leave 10 the
farmers a little pocket money.
All of the cereals except corn are to-
scther worth only three -fourths as much
as that crop. The great allied iron and
steel industries had, In the last census
year for which results have been pub
lshed, 1904, production worth only so
per cent of the value Of this years corn
crop.
The growing Importance of the south
in corn production Is becoming conspcu-
GUS In 1889 IL produced hardly moro
than onc-ffth OF the national crop: now
II produces one third.
The cotton crop OF this year may be
worth In lint and seed a round 5000, ,Ooo.-
600 al the farm. This value is Is per
cent above the fivc-year average.
The value of the hay crop is about
SI2O,000,OO0. an amount which has been
exceeded but once, and that in 1907; it
Is IL per cent above the average OF the
preceding five years
Winter and Spring Wheat.
Fortunately the wheat crop Is divided
into two sowiugs autumn and spring, so
that the two crops are subject to diff
fercnt climatic accidents. as was the
case this year. The production of spring
and winter wheat Is 9l.I6i 600 bushels,
or substantially the average OF the pre-
ceding five years, whereas tho value is
about s625, 900 600, IS per cent above
the five year average.
Easily the fifth crop In point OF value
H. lt,r ,,h NAy -..n1s
Is $3.50. 900 900. or IL per cent above the
average OF the five preceding years In
quantity the cats crop this year is mag
nificcnt For the second time in the
history Of this country the crop exceeds
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