The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-12-31
Crops TOTAL
{ BILLIONS;
BIGGEST YET
..nAYsEEpv INTERESTS
MAKE CRY FOLKS
GASP

N4shinxton. ID. c., Dec. Sl--Any
uersou Who is at all inclined 10 doubt
tlatA the agricultural products ale the
Iakgtst tlnngs this country turns onl
should read carefully the report II
me secretary OF agriculture, just sub
uitfed to the president aud congress.
The report viii take some OF the
conctlt ont OF the city born and city
bred people. They will learn thar the
luau with the hoe and his toll the
hprhyhandeu agriculturists and the
Droducts be raises are the iounuauoh
of this country's inca culable wealth
Thai this despised 'hayseed In the
aggregate. Is Titan compared 10
wAom an the Rockefellers and ali the
eafnegies arr pigmies.
Al no time In the worlds history
mas country produced farm products
Nithin oneyear with value reaching
,s,s2e .000, coo, which Is the value OF
fst agricultural porducts Of this coun'
frx for 1910. This amount l. larger
than thatlof 1909 by s805, ,O0Q00O, an
amount OF increase over The preceding
year equal TO tne huge fortune An
drew Carnegie has accumulated dur
iax his oug and useful life.
The value Of one crop. corn, Is
1850 100000 this year. Secretary
Wilson In bis report tries to make
bept-up city dwellers understand how
miich money this is. He wrliss.
One billion five hundred million
dollars. a. sum sufficieat to cancel the
iut1rest-beoring deb OF the United
states. buy all OF the god and silver
mined Ia all OF the countries Of the
.safeA in 1879, aud still lease to the
farmers alittle pocket money.
The corn crop Is q national asset
In mole than one sense. II Is not mere
II wealth ln existence for the tlme be
Ing. but II Is an asset OF perpetual
recurrence. Year after wear through
ont the ages. a stupendous amount OF
corn, with incredilrls value can be
produced
The cotton crop. inc uding seed. is
WORTH this year only three-fifths OF
the value Of the corn crop; the
wheat crop only two-iifihs. the ha,
crop less than one-hal'. All OF the
cereals. exceps corn. are together
worth oRly thretsourths as much
TIE great allied irrs. ami steel indus
tries had In the latest census year fol
Witch results have been published
1904. production worth on 60 pei
cert Of the value OF this years corr
crop
4Talklng OF hayseeds-the hay croI
uflfsID is worth 81 100000. and thu
crtp@is short at that. only 6.116.U0'
tuns But the amazing fact is tha
tie hay crop Is worth ss5.0f0,00
nbrs than all the wheat raised o.
ro,lniiess acres. There wss a mag
llf1cent crop OF oats. too. more than
biifica bnshei', worta s3Stlnoo.oao
Aud 52s,7s7 .0J0 bushels OF the lowl
potato were raised
IN sunimarizing bis comparison.
TIE truthful Secretary Wilson. adds;
The value OF the farm products 0
1910 shows both gains snd osses I
eelnpzfi.on with 1853. A gain CT $3.50
0o6,et1 Is made for cotton lint an
seeu y}e.eoe, ,0"o for hay ana $3.50 9
800 lor barley A loss was suffere
III wheat amounting to ,i0ie00,000
c1ft 4es. O0o0n. oats. s26 O90. 600
pps2toes. and wool s23.ooo.voo each.
The siarm value II the reresl crop
DECLINED sz3c. 0otQ0A0 ia 1910 flor
fsps. and the saiue Of all crops d'
qiiutu yiis,o0O. 30. A gain mas mad
Atfffer. In tht value OF animal pr'
apctt. Amounting to si24.000.0oO.
hai. been b year OF high prices "a
as<st and Animals for poultry an
ssKk. and f1f hiilk and butter. and ID
tllezk REASONS the total value Of a
faru products Increased in 1910 ;aoi
vut 600 above the estimate for III
past year.