Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-12-07
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
WILSON SUBMITS LAST REPORT
AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS SERVICE

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WASHINGTON, Dec. After 16
years, record of service in the
cabinet, Secretary of Agriculture vii.
son submitted today to President Taft
the last annual report he will make
as head of the United States depart.
ment OF agriculture The report is
more than review of the past
years work, it contains summary
of the agricultural advance of the
country during the venerable secre-
tary's term Of public service
The record OF l6 years has been
written he says 1T begins with a
yearly farm production of $4,000
900 and ends with 1882 100000 Six
teen years ago, the farmer was a
joke of the earicaturist. now he is
like the stone that was rejected 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 Be
ginnings have been made in a produc.
ton per acre increasing faster than
the natural increase of population
There has been an unfit of agri
culture and of country life.
During the past l6 years the
farmer has steadily increased the
wealth production year by year, with
the exception of 1911 During tn
l6 years the farmers wealth produc
! ton increased 141 per cent
Most productive of all agricultu
raj years in the country has beer
1912 The earth has produced ia
greatest annual dividend The sun
and the rain and the fertility Of the
soil needed not the human contrO
yersies, but kept on working in co
operation with the farmers efforts
TO utilize them. The prices at the
farm are generally profitable anc
will continue the prosperity thai
farmers have enjoyed in recent years
The total production of farm wealth
is the highest yet reached by hall
a billion dollars. The grand tota
for 1912 is estimated TO be 1882,
900. 900. This is more than twice the
value of the farm wealth in 1892
More than sos. OO,0O0,00O is the
grand total of the farm wealth pro
duction, the report says. during tht
past l6 years, an amount equal tC
about three-quarters of the present
national wealth.
The most effective move TOWARD
reduced cost Of living is the produc
ton of greater crops, says the secre
tary, and this move he declares ii
due to the work of the department
of agricultural colleges and expert
ment stations and to the help of thu
press In publishing every movement
10 help the farmers. The nation, he
adds, forgot its farmers in the gen
eral scheme of education of pas
years and few philanthropists thought
of them when giving for education
but they are waking up and thinking
for themselves and congress IA
been good to them
The secretary first takes up ~
work of the various bureaus of hi,
department in the past year and thei
tells of the growth in some instanc
es from their foundation, of these bu
reaus during the time he has beef
head of the department. He praise
highly the experts who have worke'
under him.
"The great and growing movement
carried out by the department TO
agricultural betterment," he declares
has not been sustained solely b
one man nor by few men. A choic
corps of scholarly experts in thei
special lines of endeavor has bee