Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-12-13
DECLINE IN VALUE
OF FARM PRODUCTS
Less for 1911 Than for the Pre-
ceding Year.
CROPS WORTH MUCH MORE
Loss ChargeabIe to Animals and Their
oducts-Pertinent Paragraphs
From the Annual
Report.

WaSllnglOQ.-1n tOIdl value vi
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. Inc
estimate for 1911 is based on
the census items, and is $S,417,000,-
600, or $277, 100000 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 a 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
S5,504, 000,0 900, 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 q 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 wealth producer. The estimate OF
2,776.000, 900 bushels indicates 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 1888, and this estab-
fishes a total value for the crop that
reaches $1.7O0,0 100000 and breaks the
record.
So pre-eminently is corn the leading
crop of this country that about three
fourths of the worlds crop is grown
here. But he 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
includes only cotton and sugar beets
Mr.. Wilson's report begins with Sc
ries' of short, pithy paragraphs, some
of which are as follows:
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
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 to
both would be considerable
Six hundred thousand short tons of beet
sugar were made last year in 81 factories
There is estimated worlds shortage
of 100000 long tons of sugar this year.
The consumer pays dollar for food;
the farmer gets less than fifty cents for
it. 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.