The Parker post., 1912-12-14
CROP VALUES ARE ENORMOUS
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it's value has been exceeded by the
crops of three preceding years. The
combined value of the cotton lint
and seed is estimated to be $3.50, ,OOO,-
600, or about one-half the value OF
the corn crop and little less than
the value of the hay crop. In value
as we'll as in production the cotton
crop of this year has been exceeded
by only one year, and that was 1911
for production and 1910 for value.
The wheat crop is estimated to be
worth $500 900, an amount which
was exceeded by the value OF the
crops of 1909 and 1908, but no other
year. The quantity of the crop, 720,-
333 900 bushels, is 11.2 per cent great
er than the average production OF the
previous five years and has been eX-
ceeded by the crops of only two years
1t is only 100000 bushels below
the next higher crop and only 2S,-
600, 900 bushels below the highest
production.
Livestock Products.
The dairy COW is one of the prin-
cipal producers of wealth on the farm
and the value of her products in 1912
is estimated at about $3.50 900, 900, an
amount which exceeds the value OF
the cotton lint and is nearly equal to
the combined value of lint and seed.
The wheat crop is worth only three
fourths as much as the dairy pro-
ducts
The magnitude of the poultry in
dustry is set forth. An egg may be
worth only a cent and three-quarters,
and yet LOO, 100000 dozen eggs are
worth $3.50, 900, 900, and these are the
estimates for 1912. If to the value
mentioned is added the value of the
fowls raised, the products Of the poul-
try industry on farms amounts to
about $57O,OOO,OO0. This is nearly
equal to the value of the wheat crop
and is more than three-fOurthS of the
value of the cotton lint produced this
year.
The animals sold from the farm and
the animals slaughtered on it to-
gether number about III ,000, ,000 and
the farm value of these animals is
estimated at $1,930, 600, 900.
The total value of the animal pro-
ducts of the farm in 1912 is estimat-
ed to be about $3,395, ,O00.O 900. This
is larger value than that of 1911,
but is about $15O,00O, 900 below the
estimate for 1910, which is the only
year that exceeds 1912 in value of
animal products produced on farms.
While animal products are about
one-third of the wealth production on
farms in 1912, the crops are about
two-thirdds. Their value is $6,137
600 900, an amount which is vastly
above the high-water mark of total
crop value in 1911
Secretary's Closing Words.
ticipates the close of his term OF
service on the 4th of March, as fol
lows
''The record of 16 years has been
written. 1t begins with a yearly
farm production worth $4,000 100000
and ends with $9,532,OOO, 900. Then
farmers were loaded with debts that
were painful burden; prosperity fol
lowed, and grew with unexampled
speed. Then the farmer was joke
of the caricaturist; now he is like
the stone that was rejected by the
builder, and has become the head
stone of the corner. Beginnings have
been made in production per acre
increasing faster than the natural in
| crease of population. There has been
an uplift Of agriculture and OF
country life.
':In this movement the department
has been gradually equipped to oc
cupy a foremost place. 1t came to
learn and it remained to teach. It's
influence penetrates the remotest
neighborhood 1t performs a mission
of welfare and happiness to farmers
and to the whole nation. The mil
lions of dollars that it costs are re-
turned in tens of millions of wealth
saved and wealth produced"