Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-08
YEARS CROP A RECORD
FARMS OF THE NATION YIELD
PRODUCTS VALUED At
3s,s2s, ooo, 900.
SECRETARY WILSON DECLARES
CORN HOLDS TITLE OF KING
Annual Report Of Secretary Of Asrieui-
ture-Maizs Exceeds Value Of All
Other Cereals Observation-Disclosures
in South lnersasss-Farmers' Share
Of Prices and Profits.

Of Prices and Profits.
Washington, Dec. s.-Nothing short
of omniscience can grasp the value OF
the farm products of this year, is the
statement of the secretary of agricul-
ture in his annual report for 1910, pub
lished yesterday At no time before in
the worlds history has a country pro-
duced farm products within one year
with a value reaching SS,926, 100000,
which is the value Of the agricultural
products of this country for 1910. The
value OF farm products from 1899 to the
present year has been progressive with
out interruption. If the value of the
products of 1899 is placed al 100. the
value for this year is 1873, or almost
double the value for the census year
eleven years ago. During this period
of unexampled agricultural production.
a period OF twelve years, during which
the farmers of this country have stead
lily advanced in prosperity and wealth
and in economic Independence. in in
telligence. and a knowledge OF agricul-
is $79 600, 900 900"
The crop of 3,1213s1 900 bushels ex-
ceeds that Of the record year 1893 and
is greater than the average crop Of the
preceding five years by "A per cent.
While the value of this corn crop is
below that Of 1909 and also Of 1903, It's
amount belongs to stories of mas gle. 1t
can hardly be reckoned as less than
$500, 100000. a sum sufficient TO can
eel the interest-bearing debt 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. 1t is not merely
wealth in existence for the time being.
but it is an asset of perpetual recur-
renee Year after year thruout the
ages, stupendous amount of corn with
incredible value can be produced
All Of the cereals except corn are to-
setic- 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 so per cent Of the value OF
this years corn crop.
The growing importance Of the south
in corn production is becoming conspic-
uous. In 1889 it produced hardly more
than one-fifth of the national crop;
now it produces one-third.
The cotton crop of this year may be
worth in lint and seed a round $780,
100000 at the farm. or more than the
corn crop was worth in any year prior
TO 1851. This value is 10 per cent
above the fve-year average.
The value of the hay crop is about
720.000,0 900. an amount which has been
exceeded but once. and that in 1907;
1t is 10 per cent above the average Of
the preceding five years.
Great Cereal Year.
This is the year Of highest produce
ton for corn and oats, and for tobacco.
But the only crop that reached its
highest value this year is cotton.
In the list of crops that stand next
to the highest in production are found
rice. hay, beet sugar, and the tota, for
all sugar: in the list Of crops that are
next to the highest in value are wheat.
oats. barley. tobacco, daxseed. beet
sugar, and the total for all sugar.
The potato crop is third in order Of
quantity, and the corn crop and the
total for all cereals third in value.
,
ton and potatoes fourth in value.
Fifth in production was wheat and
fifth in value rice. The value Of The
farm products of 1910 shows both
gains and losses in comparison with
1909. A gain of $4,000, 900 is made
for cotton lint and seed: 100000, 900 for
hay: and s3,o0o.000 for barley. loss
was suffered in the case Of wheat
amounting to s1O1, 600, 900; corn. $685.
100000: oats, 26,0oD. 900; potatoes and
wool. s23 100000 each.
The farm value of the cereal crops
declined, $500 GOO. 900 in 1910 from 1903
and the value of all crops declined
s119. 900. 900. A gain was made, how
ever, in the value of animal products
amounting to si24. 200. 900 1t has been
a year of high prices for meat and an
inals, for poultry and eggs. and for
milk and butter, and for these reasons
the total value of all farm products
increased in 1910 1904, 900 900 above the
estimate for 1903.
Farmers Share Of Prices.
High prices receive considerable at
tention in this report. In the farmer
aspect on the matter he receives va
rious percentages of the consumer.
prices for farm products. In the CASE
of milk, in seventy-eight cities dis
tributing thruout the United States
where the subject was investigated by
the department. the farmer receives a
scant so per cent, or one-half Of the
price paid by the consumer. The rail.
roads get about per cent. so that tn;
remaining 43 per cent Of the consum-
ers price is received mostly by the re-
taller.
"The milk wagon OF the retailer has
long route. 1t stops at house OF
two in one city block. perhaps severa
blocks without stopping. and SO pro-
ceeds to serve customers thinly distri.
buted along a route of miles. At the
same time the milk wagons OF other re
tailers are covering various portions o
the same route. and so there is a grea
waste of effort and of expense in TIL.
distribution"
The farmer receives hardly NOR,
than half of the consumers price in the
case OF poultry; SO per cent in the cas-,
of eggs: cabbage 4s per cent whel
bought by the head and s. per cen
when bought by the pound; celery 6
t~v, %1,o