Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-12-14
DECLINE IN VALUE
Of FARM PRODUCTS
Less for 1911 Than for the Pre-
Ceding Year.
CROPS WORTH MUCH MORE
Loss ChargeabIe 70 Animals and Their
Products-Pertinent Paragraphs
From the Annual
ReCCrt

Washington.-Th total value Of
farm products the past year has
declined considerably from that Of
the previous twelve months, accord
ing to the annual report of Secretary
Of Agriculture James Wilson. The
estimate for 1911 is based on
the census items, and is $S,417,0G0,-
600, or S277, GOO, 900 under the total for
1910. The loss is chargeable TO the
general classes Of animal products and
animals sold and slaughtered. Dairy
cows are the only farm animals for
which increase of price is indicated
Eggs, wool, butter and poultry have
suffered in farm price during the year.
In consequence Of the decline Of prices
Of farm animals and their products,
this group is estimated as having pro-
duced value of $2,913, 100000 in 1911,
Of 1921. 100000 below the amount for
1910.
On the other hand, the crops are
worth more than those for 1910. the
estimate of their farm value being
$500 100000, again of $44,000,000 over
1910. Farm prices Of all crops are
higher than for 1910 except for cotton,
cotton seed and fax seed, and this
general fact, notwithstanding the 9th
er general fact that production was
low, makes about ten crops of 1911
the most valuable ones Of the same
kind that the farms Of this country
have ever produced.
With value of more than twice
that Of the cotton crop this year and
but little less than the combined val
ules of the cotton, wheat, and oats
crops, corn is by far the leading crop
as a wealth producer. The estimate Of
2,7T6.000,0 900 bushels indicates a pro-
ductiOn that has been exceeded in only
two years. The farm price of corn is
now higher than it has been since the
records of the department began in
1866, except in 1883. and this estab-
fishes a total value for the crop that
reaches 1,70O.000,O00 and breaks the
record.
So prominently is corn the leading
crop Of this country that about three
fourths of the worlds crop is grown
here. But the exports of corn con
stitute one-third of the worlds export
/ Of corn.
The year 1911 was a poor one for
record-breaking crops, since the list
4 includes only cotton and sugar beets.
AIr. Wilson's report begins with a Sc
ries of short, pithy paragraphs. some
OF which are as follows:
1 When the cattle-fever tick is destroyed
/ In the southern states the country will
! get much more meat from that section.
/ and the producing of it will build up the
i farms there
/ The hog-cholera serum developed in this
/ department Is successful where it is prop
! erly made and applied
The finest dates from the Sahara Des-
/ ert succeed IN our southwest
Seven hundred and fifty million dollars
/ IS the best estimate for poultry products
this year.
/ If good roads from the producer to the
/ consumer were general. the benefits tC
both would be considerable
Six hundred thousand short tons Of beet
/ sugar were made last year in g. factories
| There is an estimated worlds shortage
! OF 100000 long tons of sugar this year
The consumer pays a dollar for food
/ the farmer gets less than fifty cents for
| II. Who gets the rest?
! Uplift the farm home through the edu-
| ctaion of the farmers daughter toward
greater usefulness and attractiveness in
the farm home
Save all the liquid fertilizers on the
| farm, in cisters, to be applied where
crops are to grow; this will recover the
greatest farm waste of our times.