The Republican journal., 1910-01-06

REGAL CHEMICAL CO.,
III Boston, A1aas.
The Farmers Best Year.
Products in 1909 Are Worth SO, $780,
100000.
The value OF farm products has become
SO incomprehenslbly large that it is mere
" row of figures, says Secretary Wilson
in his thirteenth annual report. For 1909
it is So, 760, 900, 600, an increase of $780,
| 600, 600 over 1908. 1t was the most pros
porous of all years for the farmer. The
value of his products has nearly doubled
in ten years. The report says: eleven
years of agriculture, beginning with a
production of S4,417, 900, 600 and ending
with So, 76O, 900, 600! A sum of $40, 600, :
600, 1000 for the period! 1t has paid eff
mortgages, it has established banks, it
has made better homes, it has helped to
make the farmer citizen of the world
and it has provided him with means for
improving his soil and making it more
productive
Tie most striking fact in the worlds
agriculture, the Secretary says, is the
value of the corn crop for 1909, which is
about 81, 100, 100000 1t nearly equals
the value of the clothing and personal
adornments of 100000 people, accord
ing to the census of 1900. The gold and
silver coin and bullion of the United
States are not of greater value. 1t has
grown up from the soil and out of the air
in 12O days-s15, 600, 900 a day for one
crop, nearly enough for two Dread
noughts daily for peace or war. This
crop exceeds in value the average of the
crops of the five preceding years by Sc
per cent.
Cotton is now the second crop in value,
and this years crop is easily the most
valuable one to the farmer that has been
produced. With cotton lint selling at 13.
cents on the farm on November LIST and
with cottonseed selling for about S25 a
ton, the lint and seed of this crop are
worth $3.50, 100000 to the farmer. No
cotton crop since 1873 has been sold by
farmers for SO high price a pound as
this one.
Third in value is wheat, worth about
SIZE. 900, 600 at the farm, and this largely
exceeds all previous values. The Novem-
Der farm price was almost an even dollar
bushel, a price which has not been
equalled since 1881. This is the third
wheat crop in point of size, with 725,-
600, 600 bushels.
The hay crop is valued at $685., 600, 900;
oats at $500, 900, 600; potatoes at $212,-
900, 900 and tobacco at nearly 500, OOO,-
600. Beet and cane sugar and molasses
and syrup from farm and factory, will
reach the total of about sos, 900, 900. The
barley crop is worth $Ss, 900, 900, flax
seed, S36, 600, 600, and 200. 600. 600 hounds
of rice, $25, 900, 900.
The production of all cereals combined
is a, I'll 100000 bushels, an amount con-
slderably greater than that for any other
year except 1906. This is the year of
highest production for potatoes, tobacco,
beet sugar, all sugar and rice; next to
the highest production for corn, oats and
all cereals. Compared with 1908, gains
in value are found all along the line, the
exceptions being barley, buckwheat, rye
and milk. The increase in the value of
farm products this year over 19OS-$969,-
600 0OO-is enough to buy a new equip
ment of farm machinery for more than
5000, 900 farms. The value of the cereal
crops to the farmer would pay for all the
machinery, tools and implements of the
entire manufacturing industry. The
value of all crops, S., 700, 900, 900, would
IN make tah's nan payment on the value OF all
.eal ~ r 1an1 ACCORDING 10 the vaiua-
'lG w. W c i9oa
so;ls ne - 3 tb uoes not peleve that the
S go ~ ~ VIZ. aa, county are wearing out.
~ a nr I haua ay, une average ylelas 10
to increase for the last forty years.
secretary wilson mas just finished an
heof y ' III ~ .lle c, .h IN prices OF
s uJea III al al parss OIL 5ne country; A
a oo4'7ai was prepared 10 record the
and sa1 nae,oes VI re.aIer s IN puylng
h hl,o 'e I'M ealcass Or nal1 carcass OF
49, 49, + anu ainp1ig tne 1acts ascertalned
c m1te Inn melg41 ana wholesale cost OF
cess T R,ere f ~ ueea; Usually nan car
t ta1 u;a men af lo,owea me weight and re-
f fara price a;. o1 every cut Tor which uni,
JILL do.n pi'T Tl,, was charged by the retail
te aon,. nus ~ ~ 1eeame possible not only
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