The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-06-20
FARM PRODUCTIONS

| year his corps increase. The aSrlcui-
| tural production Of this country iaS'
year was enormous.
| AT no time in the worlds history
has a country produced farm prouucls
within one year with a value reachlhs
sS.926.O0O. 900. which is the value OF
the agricultural products of TINS coun-
try for 1910" says Secretary wilson
in his last annual report
This amount is larger than that OF
1909 by S3O5.000, 600. n VaIue Oh
farm products from 1899 to the pres
ent year has been progressive Without
interruption. For II years the farm
ers Of this country have had great
success. They have IN
wealth and economic independence, IN
intelligence and knowledge OF aSrlcui-
ture. and made a total value in farm
products of $79,00o,000,OOo
In telling of the corn corp OF last
year Mr.. Wilson declares:
The value of the crop can naroiy
be reckoned at less than $1,o0o.Ooo,-
600, a sum sufficient to cancel the
Understanding debt OF the united
States, buy all Of the gold and silver
mined in all of the countries or the
earth in 1909, and still leave the farm
ers a little pocket money. !.
THE cotton crop, including seed, is
worth this year 1910) only three
1IthS OF the value Oh the OIL 1iOP,
the wheat crop only tWO-hfthS, and
the hay crop less than one-half. All
of the cereals, except corn, are toSeth-
er worth only three-fOurths as much.
The great allied steel and iron indus
tries had in the latest census year for
which results have been published,
1904, a production worth only 60 per
cent. of the value Of this years corn
crop.
90 ~ E anro nrn6 notion
his year is the growing Importance
of the South. Let a comparison be
made with corn production IN the
South in the census ear 1889, or Il
years ago. At that time the South At
lantic States produced only 6.2 per
cent. Of the national corn crop. Ihls
year they produced 81 per cent, or an
increase relatively Of about one-half.
The relative increase for the South
Central States is even greater, being
from 14.8 per cent. of the national
crop in 1889 to 23.4 per cent in 1910.
Then the South produced hardly more
tina one-fifth of the national crop, but
nOW-i produces One-thlrd.'
The crop Of 1910 may be worth in
lint and seed a round $500, 600, 600 at
the farm, or more than the corn crop
worth in any year prior to 1901,
or more than the wheat crop or hay
crop was EVER worth. During the
last five years the cotton crop had an
average value of $685. OO, 900, so tina
the value for 1910 is Is per cent.
Q the average fve-year average"
The hay crop for 1910 brought
about $3.50, 600, 600. The value is Is
per cent. above the average of the pre-
ceding five years. The short crop
made better prices. The size of the
crop is 5 per Cent below the fye-year
average.
has two crops, winter wheat
was fine and spring wheat suffered
from severe drought. The value of
the entire crop is close to $625.00O,-
600, or 10 per cent above the five-year
average. The value of this Years crop
has been exceeded but once, in 1909,
but it's quantity has been surpassed
four times.
THE value Of the oat crop is proba-
bly, more than $3.50, 0OO, 900, an in
crease of Il per cent over the last
five-year average. The western States
increased in production from 10 per
cent. in 1889 to ST per cent. in 1910.
South Atlantic States gained the
difference between Al and 6.5 per
cent. Of the CROP
Crops in order Of their value fol
low: Corn, cotton, hay, wheat, oats,
potatoes,@sugar, tobacco, barley, flax
seed, rye rice and hops.
In his summary Mr.. Wilson adds.
This is the year of highest produc-
o for corn oats, the total Of all
cereals, and for tobacco. But the only
crop that reached its highest value in
1910 is cotton.
The list of crops that stand next
to the highest, either in uuantitv or
value, or both, is much larger han
the foregoing. In production next to
the highest year are found for 1910
the crops Of rice, hay, beet sugar. and
the total for all sugar. In the list
OF crops hat are e. to the highest
in value are wheat, oats. barley to-
bacco, ~flaxseed. beet sugar and the
total for all sugar.
The potato crop was third in order
of quality, and the corn crop and the
total for all cereals were third in
value. Barley n rye We're fourth in
production. and DOtatooc fo,r .