The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-12-19

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TELLS OF PROSPERITY

Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture has sent in his annual
report for his department-the six
teenth report written by HMM
which he tells of the Astounding pros
perity of the American farmer, the
greatest in the history of the country,
says a Washington dispatch. A por-
ton Of the report reads as follows:
A field half as large again as Italy
or nearly as large as either France or
Germany is the are of this country's
cornfeld. This years corn crop is the
largest eve produced in this country,
3,169, 900, 900 bushels. In value, too,
the corn crop of this year is the high
est on record, and reaches the fabul-
Gus amount of $1,759, OOO, 900. This
crop is worth to the farmer 20 per
cent more than the average corn crop
of the previous five years.
Hay has returned to it's old place
and is the crop that is second in value.
The year was most productive for
grass and hay, and the harvest of hay
is measured by 72,425,0 900 tons. This
is 16 percent above the average crop
of the previous five years. The value
of this years hay crop is 1861 ,000, 200,
and has never been equaled. 1t ex-
ceeds the five-year average by 81 per
cent. The importance of this crop to
is observed that its value is greater
than that of the cotton crop and near
ly as great as the combined values Of
the wheat, tobacco and potato crops.
The report states that there is gen.
eral agreement throughout the coun-
try that the cotton crop will be next
to the largest one in production and is
likely to exceed the average crop of
the five preceding years.
The oats crop is fifth in order of
value. Although the price has de-
clined. the production is so enormous
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to be $47S, 900, 900, or a little more than
one-half the value of the entire cotton
crop. The remarkable production of
1,417,172.OO0 bushels was 51.5 percent
greater than the average of the preced-
ing five years. The potato crop is
another one Of highest production. Its
414,2 900 bushels are above the five
year average by 20 percen, but the
crop is worth only $3.50, 900, 900 on &C.
count Of low prices. Three previous
smaller crops have ben more valu-
able.
With a production Of 224, $4,000
bushels, the barley crop far exceeds
the largest n heretofore produced.
1t is 35.7 percent above the average
production of the FIVE preceding years.
The value of this years crop, 1925, OOO,-
900, is below the value of the crop Of
1911, although the production Of that
year was GA, 600, 900 bushels less.
The tobacco crop has not quite risen
to the high level of production of most
Of the other crops, yet it amounts to
959.437 900 pounds and is IL percent
above the average Of the preceding
five years. The price has risen some
what, so that the total value of the
crop, $97, 100000, is about II percent
above the five year average.
Flaxseed Is the most valuable of the
smaller crops,t the amount for this year
being about $39, 0C0, 900, or 32.4 percent
above the average value Of the five
preceding crops. The production is
20, 1885, 900 bushels.
All of the cereals, except wheat and
rice, produced their largest crops in
1912, and, including those crops, made
a gain of 25.6 percent above the five
year average. The total production Of
the seven cereals is 5,6O9, 807, 900 BUSH
els, a bulk of food SO large as to be
entirely beyond understanding. The
combined value of this great mass Of
cereals os a little over 5000, 000, 900
and is 1873 percent above the average
of the previous five years.
The dairy cow is n of the princi-
pal producers of wealth on the farm,
and the value of her products in 1912
is estimated at about $3.50, 900 900, an
amour 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 products.