The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-12-13
TEN BILLIONS
YIELD OF FARMS
SeC't'y Wilson's Amazing Re-
port on Agricultural Prosperity
S105, ,OOO,O 100000 IN WEALTH
The Exports of Farm Products Bring
Enough TO Pay Government Ex-
penses-Man Behind the Plow
Fills the Nations Larder.

Fills the Nations Larder.
Washington.-Jame Wilson, Secre
tary OF Agriculture, in his annual re
port sets forth impressively the stu
Dendous flood OF wealth that has rolled
In on this country with the crops OF
1912 Secretary Wilson describes this
year as the most productive OF all ag-
ricultural years. He takes occasion in
| his report TO review the development
of the Department OF Agriculture dur.
ing his sixteen years of service, which
by the way constitutes a record for a
| Cabinet officer.
"The record Of sixteen years has
been written" says he. ut begins
with a yearly farm production worth
s4,000,000, and ends with $9,532,000,.
000 Then the farmers were loaded
with debts that were painful burdens :;
prosperity followed and grew with un
exampled speed" or the unprece.
dented crops Of 1912 Secretary Wilson
says:
Most productive of all agricultural
years in this country has been 1912
The earth has produced its greatest
annual dividend. The man behind the
plow has filed the nations larder,
crammed the storehouses, and will
send liberal supplies TO foreign coun
tries.
"The prices at the farm are gen.
orally profitable, and will continue the
prosperity that farmers have enjoyed
I'm recent years. I'm spite of the lower
total value Of animals sold and slaugh.
tered, the total crop value is so far
above that Of 1911 and of any preced
ing year that the total production OF
farm wealth is the highest yet reached
by 100000.
BASED on the census items OF
wealth productions on farms, the
grand total for 1912 Is estimated to be
1882, ,000,0 900. It is more than twice
the value of the wealth produced on
farms in 1899, according to the cen.
sus, and il Is about one.eighth more
than the wealth produced in 1909
IF the wealth produced on farms In
produced sixteen years ago, or in 1897.
Is represented by "a, and the wealth
produced in 1912 by 2021 During the
sixteen years the farmers wealth pro
duction increased 141 per cent.
During the last sixteen years the
wealth production on farms, according
to the census items, reached the grand
total of more than $105,000, 100000
This stream of wealth in sixteen years
has equalled about three-quarters or
the present national wealth" Or
the record crop Of corn for this year
Mr.. Wilson says:
"A cornfield half as large again as
Italy, or nearly as large as either
France or Germany, is the area of this
country's cornield The largest crop
OF corn ever produced in this country
was that of 1912 It reached the
amount of 3,1G9,000,000 bushels, OF
considerably more than the record
drop of 1896 and much above the ave.
rage crop of the preceding five years.
The most valuable previous crop was
that of 1908, but the value OF this
years crop much exceeded it, and
reaches the fabulous amount Of ST..
5000 600. The corn crop Of this
year is worth TO the farmer 20 pei
cent. more than the average corn crop
of the previous five years.
The hay crop of the country comes
second in value, having jumped be.
yond the total value OF the cotton
crop. The total crop is 72,425. 600 tons,
which is l6 per cent. above the ave.
rage crop of the preceding five years.
Its total value is 1861, 100000, which Is
21 per cent greater than the average
value of the hay crops of the preceding
Eve years.
THE Importance Of this crop to the
farmer" says Secretary Wilson. "is
better realized when it is observed
that its value is greater than that of
the cotton crop and nearly as great as
the combined wheat, tobacco and 20.
tato crops"
The report says there is a general
agreement that the cotton crop will be
next TO the largest one produced. and
is likely to exceed the average crop of
the five preceding years. The lint
crop OF 1912 may be worth S735, ,O00,.
900.
The wheat crop has lost ground i'm
relative importance and value. The
crop this year is estimated TO be
worth s596OOO,OOO. which has been
exceeded in value only by the crops of
1909 and 1908.
The potato crop comes sixth I'm
order of value, its amount being $780,.
100000.