Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-12-08
YEARS CROP A WORLD RECORD
Nations Farms Give Yield Worth
$s,92e, 100000.
WILSON DECLARES CORN KING
Secretary of Agriculture Says Maize
Exceeds Value of All Cereals
Taken TOEether-PrOductiO
I'm south Increases.

WASHINGTON, Dec s.-Nothing short
OF omnisclenee can grasp the value OF the
farm products OF this year. IL tho state
ment Of the secretary OF agriculture In his
annual report for 1910. published today. At no
time before in the worlds history has
country produced farm products within one
year with a value reaching 1926 10000.
which is the value OF the agricultural pro-
ducts Of this country for 1910. The value OF
farm products from 1899 to the present year
has been progressive without interruption.
II the value OF the products OF 1899 is placed
at 10O the value for this year is 1ss, or
almost double the value for the census
year eleven years ago. During this
period Of unexampled agricultural produc-
tion, period OF twelve years, during which
the farmers OF this country have steadily
advanced I'm prosperity and wealth and in
| economic Independence in intelligence, and
a knowledge Of agriculture, the total value
OF farm products is 500 900, OOO."
The crop Of 3.12i,Ss1 900 bushels exceeds
that Of the record year 1905 and is greater
than the average crop Of the preceding
five years by IA per cent. While the value
of this corn crop is below that Of 1909 and
| also OF 1905 its amount belongs TO stories
OF magic II can hardly be reckoned as
less than $500, 900 900, a sum sufficient to
cancel the interest-bearins dsbt of the
United States, buy all of the gold and
silver mined in all OF the countries OF the
earth in 1909. and still leave to the farmers
a little pocket money
Corn an Asset.
The corn crop is a national asset in
more than one sense It is not merely
wealth in existence for the time being, but
| it is an asset OF perpetual recurrence. Year
after year, throughout the ages, a stu
pendous amount OF corn with incredible
value can be produced"
All OF the cereals except corn are to-
| gether 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
production worth only 60 per cent Of the
value Of this years corn crop.
The growing Importance Of the south in
corn production Is becoming conspicuous
In 1889 it produced hardly more than one
NTH Of the national crop; now it produces
one-third.
| The cotton crop Of this year may be
worth in lint and seed a round 5000, ,OOO, 900
at the farm, or more than the corn crop
was worth in any year prior to 1901. This
value is 10 per cent above the five-year
average,
The value OF the hay crop Is about $40. %
100000. an amount which has been ex-
! ceeded but once. and that in 1907; It Is 1s
per cent above the average % the preced-
/ ing five years.
| Fortunately the wheat crop Is divided
into two sowings, autumn and spring. so
that the two crops are subject TO different
1 climatic accidents, as was the case this
/ year. The production Of spring and winter
wheat is 6sl, $4,000 bushels. or substantially
the average Of the preceding five years.
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