The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1910-12-29

over ALL OTHER YEARS
State Department of Agriculture In
Annual Report Places Value Of
Farm Products In South Carolina
at s145,4s9,58 or More Than
Eight Million Above 1909.
A statement issued wednesday
night by E. J. Watson, commissioner
of agriculture, commerce and indus
tries, shows that the year 1910 has
been one Of progress in agriculture
In South Carolina. The value OF the
products grown upon the lands of
this State has reached the enormous
sum OF s1i5 4S9,56S. winch Is three
times the 1900 figures and more tfah
sS,O00,OO0 above the 1903 value OF
products Of the field.
In Col. Watson's summary OF con-
ditions were given out tabulations
showing Increased acreage OF corn,
wheat and other products OF the field.
Tobacco and rice show 'lerreases,
the rice acreage for 1910 is 17,33p
against 1850 for last year. The
production figures place cotton at
1,176,OS1 bales and corn at 44,733,-
600. Col. Watson's corn figures
stirred up the Government statis'
ticians recently.
Summary.
Col. Watson's statement Is as fol-
lows:
agriculture in South Carolina i'll
the year 1910, though as yet the rea.
development has but just begun, has
brought this State again to the fore
front, among the agricultural pro-
ducing States of the Union, and as a
business proposition agriculture Is
again assuming the leac :he value
of the principal agricultural pro.
ducts this year being greater than
twice the value of the manufactured
output OF all the textiles and the
cotton seed oil mills combined. II
is not improbable that the total value
of the leading agricultural productt
will practically equal the value ol
all manufactured products In the
State, including fertilizers and lum'
Der.
''That a revolution has beer
wrought in the past decade may be
gathered from the fact that In 1900
South Carolina ranked twenty-secont
in agricultural products among the
States of the Union, with toLa
value of agricultural products in tha
year of s51,324,0O0. For 1908 the
! State had risen in rank to eighteenth
and this year will rise still higher
The total value OF the principal agri
cultural products this year.. including
the cotton crop with the seed, corn
hay, wheat, oats, tobacco, potatoes
rye and rice, without taking into con
sideration at all the truck industry
which has probably netted four mil
lion dollars, IL not more, Is s145,
4S9,563, almost three times the fig
ure quoted above for 1900. anc
against $137,1S2,0s7 for the veal
1909 for the same crops, an increase
for the agricultural industry, re-
gardless of truck and live STOCK dur
Ing this year, Of $S,3O7,476.
"The increase in the cotton crop
using figures which are probably sew.
eral thousand bales less than the
actual crop, Is S3.276,000, and this
has been accomplished notwithstand
ing the immense impetus given tc
corn-growing, which resulted In the
! one year In crop being increased b.
$6,692,000 in value.
Had 1t not been for the decrease
Of nearly one-fourth million dollars
in the rice crop and nearly three
fourths million dollars in the tobacco
crop, or II these crops had even kept
up to last years figures, the grand
total increase for this year would
have reached out for ten million dol.
lars. 1t Is to be doubted II hardly
a State In the Union will show 8
handsomer increase in this wonder.
full year in agricultural development
States Increase.
TT Is noteworthy that South Caro-
Iina's percentage of increase in the
nine years, from 1900 to 1909, was
larger than any Of the States of the
Union, with the exception OF sixteen
with but one exception, were the
new States, where the percentage
would naturally be larger and with
which 1t would be hardly fair to
compare. In 1909 the State OF Illi-
nois WAS the leading State In agri-
culture, having products valued at
$337,0S5. 900. With this magnificent
figure South Carollna's record this
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