The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-12-08

Jr ipricuture. The :"pO. is NOR
than a, view OF the p lars work ;
con .ins summary o. t'e aericnl-
tural attitude of the country during
the venerable secretary's term of pub
lie service.
"The record OF sixteen years has
been written" he says. 1T begins
with a yearly farm production Of 81
go 900 900 and ends with $9,532,000,-
900. Sixteen years ago, the farmer
was q joke of the caricaturist; now
he is like the stone that was reject
ed by the builder and has become the
head stone of the corner The tillers
OF the soil were burdened with debts,
he adds, but prosperity followed and
grew with unexampled speed. Begin
nings have been made in production
per acre increasing faster than the
natural increase of population. There
has been an uplift of agriculture and
OF country life.
During the past sixteen years the
farmer has steadily increased the
wealth production year by year with
the exception Of 1911. During the
sixteen years the farmers wealth
production increased al per cent.
Most productive of all agricultu-
raj years in the country has been 1872
The earth has produced its greatest
annual dividend. The sun and the
rain and the fertility Of the soil heed
ed not the human controversies, but
kept on working in cooperation with
the farmers efforts to utilize them.
The prices at the farm are generally
profitable and will continue the pros
perity that farmers have enjoyed in
recent years The total production Of
farm wealth is the highest yet reach
ed by half a billion dollars. The
grand total for 1912 is estimated to
he s9,532, 100000. This is more than
vice the value Of the farm wealth In
1890"
More than s1O5,OOO, 100000 is the
grand total of farm wealth produc-
ton, the report says, during the past
sixteen years, an amount equal to
about three quarters of the present
,otiono1 D,ao1th
The most effective move toward re-
duced cost Of living is the production
Of greater crops, says the secretary,
and this move he declares is due
to the work of the department of ag-
ricultural colleges and experiment sta
tions and to the help Of the press in
publishing every movement to help
the farmers. The nation, he adds.
forgot its farmers in the genera
scheme of education of past years
and few philanthropists thought Of
them when giving for education, but
they are waking up and thinking for
themselves and congress has been
good to them,
The secretary first takes up the
work of the various bureaus OF his
department in the past year and then
tells of the growth in some instances
from their foundation OF these bur
eaus during the time he has been
head of the department. He praises
highly the experts who have worked
under him.
THE great and growing movement
carried on by the department for
G gricultural betterment." he declares
has not been sustained solely by one
man nor by few men. A choice
corps of scholarly experts in their
special lines of endeayor has been
growing in membership. in breadth
of view, and in the practical applica-.
tion of their efforts.
1.-The department is prepared to |
continue and increase its public ser
vice. During sixteen years it has |
from the kindergarten |
the primary, middle and up
per grades of development until now
L has a thousand tongues that speak
with authority"
From a department with 2,9444 en-
1loves in 1897 and an appropriation
VI s3,272,sO2, 1t has increased to s13,-
| ,,ln,.nr NJ 4hn hnninrinn Of :