Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-10
WILSON SAYS
YEARS CROPS
ARE THE BEST
REPORT OF SECRETARY OF AGRl-
CULTURE SHOWS THAT VALUE
OF FARM PRODUCTS FOR YEAR
IS NEARLY $4,000, 100000.
CORN GOULD PAY
DEBT OF Ma TON

COOPERATION is SUGGESTED
BETWEEN THE PRODUCER AND
THE CONSUMER TO REDUCE THE
EXCESSIVE COST OF LIVING.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 8-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. At no time in the worlds history
has country produced farm prod
ucts within one year with a value
reaching 1926, 100000, which is the
value of the agricultural products Of
this country for 1910. The value of
farm products from 1899 to the pres
ent year has been progressive. without
interruption. If the value of the prod
ucts of 1899 is placed at 100, the
value for this year is 1S9, or almost
double the value for the census year
eleven years ago.
During the period of unexampled
agricultural production, period OF
twelve years, during which the farm
ers of this country have steadily ad-
vanced in prosperity and wealth and
in economic independence, in intelli-
gence, and a knowledge of agriculture,
the total value of farm products us
$79, 900, 900 900"
The corn crop of 1921 1881 900 BUSH
els exceeds that of the record year,
1906, and is greater than the average
crop of the preceding five years by IA
per cent. While the value OF this crop
is below that Of 1909 and also OF 1908,
it's amount belongs to stories OF magic
1t can hardly be reckoned as less than
81 500, 100000, a sum sufficient to can
eel the interest bearing debt OF the
United States, buy all the gold and
silver mined in all of the countries OF
the earth in 1908, and still leave to the
farmers little pocket money.
Corn Leads All Crops.
All of the cereals except corn are
together worth only three-fourths as
much as that crop. The great allied
iron and steel industries had, in the
latest census year for which results
have been published, 1904, prod1.c'
ton worth only 60 per cent OF the
value of this years corn crop.
The growing Importance OF the south
in corn production is becoming con-
spicuous. In 1889 it produced hardly
more than one-fifth of the national
crop; now it produces one-third.
The cotton crop of this year may be
worth in lint and seed round $780,
900 900 at the farm, or more than the
corn crop was worth in any year ex.
cept 1901. This value Is ID per cent
above the five year average.
The value of the hay crop is about
$72O, 100000, an amount which has
been exceeded but once, and that IN
1907; it is 13 per cent above the aver
age OF the preceding five years.
Fortunately the wheat crop is d.
vided into two sowings, autumn and
spring, so that the two crops are sub
1ect to different climatic accidents, as
was the case this year. The production
OF spring and winter wheat is 691,-
767 900 bushels, or substantially the
average
whereas the value is about $625,OOO.-
900, or 7.6 per cent above the five year
average.
Easily the fifth crop in point of value
is oats, the value of which this year Is
$3.50, 900, 900, or IL per cent above the
average of the five precedin.: years.
For the second time in the history OF
the country the crop exceeds l,0O0,-
900 900 bushels, the precise estimate
stanl.ng at 1,O96,396. 900 bushels. or
% per cent greater than the average
of the Ave preceding years.
Next in order of value is the potato
crop. which has been exceeded in only
two or three former years. With the
exception Of the crop of 1909. which
was in a degree an overproduction, the
crop of this year is the largest ever
grown in this country.
Beet sugar production in 1910 will
about equal that of 1909. say $4,000
short tons. It's factory value is reck-
oned at s51 100000 and the factory
value of cane sugar at about $2S.OOO,-
600, an amount which has been ex-
ceeded in four years.
Tobacco Crop Above Averaoe.
The tobacco crop has slightly ex-
ceeded the production of the record
year. 1909, and it's 967150.000 pounds
are 26 per cent above the average pro-
duction of the five preceding years.
It's value will be about $95,000,000, or
about the same as that of the crop OF
1909. and fully s2O,O0o.OoO more than
any tobacco crop antedating that year.
Barley has hardly maintained the
average production of the preceding
five years, the crop of this year being
1898, 900 bushels, but it's value, $97,-
600, 900, is 16 per cent ABOVE the five
year average. -
Flax seed production is far below
that of recent years on account of a
severe drought, the preliminary esti-
mate being 10.O5o000 bushels, but the
price of fax seed scared to 1929 by
Nov. /, so that the value of the entire