The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-12-08
1910 CROP OUTPUT
BREAKS RECORD
Secretary Wilson's Report Shows
Prosperity Wave Swept Over
Farms in United States.

WASHINGTON, Dec, s.-The har-
vest is over. Here are the net con
tents OF Uncle Sans crib and gran
airy, cellar and barn:
Three billion. one hundred twenty
one million, three hundred eighty-one
thousand bushels of corn--the great
est crop in history.
One billion, ninety-siX million,
three hundred ninety.slX thousand
bushels of oats.
Cotton worth a round 5000, 100000.
Hay worth $720.000,0 900.
Six hundred ninety-one million sew
en- hundred siXty-seven thousand
bushels of wheat.
Nearly 1923 100000 bushels OF po-
tatoes.
over 967 100000 pounds of tobacco.
r. over one billion pounds OF rice.
All cereal crops equaling the grand
total OF five billion, one hundred
forty-one million bushels.
Can you grasp the figures? They
describe Uncle Sans 1910 farm sea
son--the greatest he has ever had.
The total 1910 farm products reach
a value OF $S.926, 100000, sum so
stupendous the mind cannot grasp all
inlSling OF its meaning
The corn crop alone, valued at 81
900 100000, would cancel the entire
debt of the United States. buy all OF
the gold and silver mined in every
country on earth in 1909, and still
leave Uncle Sam a goodly amount
of change. All the iron mined in this
country and imported, refined into
steel and turned into finished pro
ducts. is worth only 90 per cent OF
this corn crop.
The crop figures have been com
piled by the department of agricul-
ture and are made public today in
Secretary Wilson's annual report.
Here is the 1910 record in other pro-
ducts of the farm:
Beat sugar $4,000 short tons,
valued at ISL 100000. Cane sugar,
valued at $4,000, 900. Molasses. strip,
beet pulp, sorghum and maple pro-
ducts, SlS,000,000.
The barley crop is 15S .13S. 900 bush
els. valued at S97 900 900. 16 per cent
above the average
Flax seed 15,050.000 bushels.
valued at $33,OO0,O00.
600 1000.
Many novel experiments and in
vestigations conducted by the depart
ment are reported by Secretary Will
son. Among these is the production
OF new beast of burden, the n.y.
brid Zebra-ass, several specimens of
which are now in their second year
and give every evidence of endurance
and other desirable qualities. FIX
periments have been continued in
breeding carriage and draft horses
and the secretary suggests that the
army establish special studs for the
breeding of the 1000 to $500 horses
required annually.
Experiments in poultry include the
devising of better methods of handl-
ing eggs, greatly reducing the loss
Feeding experiments with cottonseed
meal show no harmful effects result
ing from Il ration including 80 per
cent meal, but fowls will not readily
eat it in larger proportion.
The department has introduced four
new forage crops, one of which
Rhodes grass, planted on the gulf
coast, has produced three crops dur
ing the winter months and as many
as six in the entire season.
Apple growers are rapidly adopting
the new method of spraying with sui.
phur compound, worked out by the
departments Psychologists, instead Of
the old-fashioned Bordeaux mixture.
Investigation shows that fine fruit can
be produced and protection secured
against fungus diseases without the
injurious effect resulting from copper
compound Special attention has been
given to experimental work in per-
fecting the method Of using the new
sulphur sprays for the fruit spot and
leaf disease. AS n result. fruit grow.