The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-06-23

hour is to carry exact and truthful
information of real practical value tc
the individual farmer who has no Other
means of obtaining 1t.
Here in South Carolina we have
been the pioneers in this marked adj
vance which has characterized the last
three or four years in the south. and
movements inaugurated in this state
upon practical lines have spread to
our sister states, and we have helped
the work Of spreading them along.
| The full fruition of the hard, earnest
work Of the past five years is now
being enjoyed, and yet the work is
hardly in full swing. This little state
holds all worlds records for corn
growing on one acre and some other
agricultural records besides, and in the
past year she has broken all records
for percentage of increase In gross
value of agricultural products, not
alone among the southern states, but
all Of the agricultural states of the
Union for results accomplished III the
period Of single year. 1t may be
stimulative to all to repeat in this first
issue of the Farm page the statement
which | recently gave the daily press
analyzing the federal figures for 1910:
Today We received complete official fig
ures at this department for all of the
states in the Union The Washington dis
patch did not reveal all of the glory and
premiership that the Palmetto State has
won in national competition. Already
this little triangular wedge of 10000
square miles on the Atlantic coast has
taken second place in textile maGufactur-
ing in the nation. and now always a lead
er, she FORCES ahead in a more important
and fundamental branch of industry and
takes the lead of all the states in the I'm
ion with the exception of Wyoming and
Nevada, which respectively rank forty
third and forty-four in volume of pro-
ductiOn and are new states in agriculture
and therefore are not worthy of consid-
GRAFTON in the percentage of increase in
agricultural production between 1909 and
1910 She further takes rank of second
among all the older producing states in
the Union in the percentage in agricul-
tural products in the decade between 1900
and 1910 She still further In volume of
production outranks every southern state
except Texas and Georgia, and in value
per square mile of territory she outranks
both of these states, her value being
S45ls against $1,000 for Texas and 1873
for Georgia. Among all of the ranking
states of the Union South Cardinals val
ue per acre Is next only to Illinois, with
IS. 100 and Indiana with $4,736 The little
Palmetto State easily outranks Iowa. /
Ohio, PENNSYLVANIA and all the. other |
large producing states in this regard |
None Of the other southern states except |
Georgia come up to the 5000 mark, and |
the value in one at least is as low as $257. |
Marked Increase.
Looking at the natter in cold blooded
dollars and cents South Cardinals in.
crease of ga per cent in value of farm
products in the past year represents in
round numbers s31.OOO.OOO. Georgias total
ncrcase notwithstanding her almost dou
Die territory. was $3iOlj,OOO for the year
Going back a decade South Carollna's
Increase In value of agricultural products
II iI3 per cent means in cold cash an in
Tease over 1900, when the value was SOL
24,O00 of SSS6S5,0Ol 1t should be borne in
mind too, that up to about 1906 no real
Material advance had been made during
he decade, and. as indicated by the fig
Tres for the year just closed. the real ad-
'ance has been made in the past few
ears II should be borne In mind too |
hat this great increase Of So, 100000 in
me year has not been due to the high
rice OF cotton, for in 1909 the average
rice per pound paid for cotton in South
'arohna was li.4, while in 1910 II was 14.6
ents.