The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-04-08
LEADS ALL STATES
SOUTH CAROLINA LEADS OTHERS
In VALUES Per acre
COVERS twelve crops

| W UllC SlA Ol1lCES fAO -NOAI1AeA1iS
Ahead of This State, Their Small
Average Makes South Carolina
Actually the Peer of Them All.
every often We hear it stated that
if We could only get the value Of Our
agricultural products per acre up to
what it is in the States OF the Middle
West, South Carolina would be the
greatest State in the Union," remark
ed Commissioner Watson recently.
THE truth of the matter is that
South Carolina has a greater value
per acre for the II leading crops
corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buck
wheat, potatoes, hay, faxseed, cotton,
rice and tobacco, representing more
than 90 per cent. Of the total area OF
all crops-than any State in the Mid
die West, than any other State in the
South and than any other State in the
Union, with the exception Of Neva-
da, Arizona, Massachusetts, Rhole
Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, the
only six States which exceed the dis
tinguished little pioneer. In volume
of agriculture none of these six States
could be called an agricultural State,
as agricultural States go to-day, and
that being true, when We consider the
volume Of production measured in
millions of dollars, the farm of 1913,
for value per acre of crops, belongs to
South Carolina.
"Of course, nobody had dreamed,
perhaps, that this would happen, and
1 hardly believed it myself to-day,
when I got from Washington these
average values per acre Of the 12
crops combined in each OF the States
of the Union. South Carolina's value
per acre is s25.1s, Georgia's Is only
s20.s0, North Carolina's is very close
up to the Palmetto State with s24.S4.
yirginia's is $3.50, and then they
tumble. The so-called great agricui-
tural producing section of the Middle
West runs like this:
"Ohio, 1929; Indiana, s17.2S;
Illinois, s14.S7; Iowa, s17.o1; Mis-
souri,, 1929; Michigan, s16.sS;
Wisconsin, s19.41; Minnesota,
s14.26; North Dakota, ss.15; South
Dakota, ss.4s; Nebraska, s1o.S5;
Kansas, 81; Tennessee. s1s.01.
"In the rest Of the South not men
toned above it runs this way:
alabama, $40; Mississippi.
s19.62; Louisiana, s1s.05; Texas,
s1s.52; Oklahoma, s1o.o6; Arkansas
s1S.56.
"In the Far West, with the excep-
tions I have noted. New Mexico and
Nevada, the highest figures are $40
and s2025 in California. Up in the
East the figures are:
maine, s23.72; New Hampshire,
s20.44; Vermont, SCOTS; Massachu-
setts, s32.34; Connecticut, s37.63;
New York, 1888; New Jersey,
s29.02; Pennsylvania, s21.34; Dela-
ware, s1S.47.
"The average for the entire United
States Is 1851, which is just exactly
/ cent more than it was in 1909.
cit ought to be pretty convincing
also to the people who come down
and look around the South and say
that il the conditions here were like
they are at home what paradise it
would be-, to know that the average
value per acre OF these II crops in
the South Atlantic States is s22.54.
which is higher than in any other
section of the United States. In the
North Atlantic States it is s21.0S, in
the East North Central States it is
s17.O7, in the West North Central
States it is S11.52, in the South Cen
trail States it is s17.45, and in the far
Western States it is s1s.59.
The increases since 1903 show
that the South Atlantic States out
strip the entire country. In both the
East and West North Central States
there has been steady decline, and
| this is true Of the North Atlantic
States. In other words, these Off
cial federal figures that have just
been issued show beyond all question
of doubt that while we have only as
vet begun to scratch the surface OF
our opportunities here in the South
Atlantic States, agriculturally, these
States are to-day the leaders In agri-
cultural production when measured
by the only true yard stick, which Is
the actual value of the crops produc-
ed on each acre Of land cultivated
and planted.
"They bring to the eyes OF the
world what is ever more important
to US people here in South Carolina
and that is the fact that South Caro-
lima, volume of agricultural produc-
ton considered, is indeed the leading
State in the American Union to-day
in agricultural endeavor. 1t demon
strates to the OUTSIDE world that the
methods we have been employing in
the last decade in South Carolina to
increase average production per acre
of the Il leading crops Of the coun- |
try has brought her to the forefront
and that she is actually in advance at
this time of any of her sister States |!
by perhaps several years.
cit occurs to me that we, as a
people, ought to thank the federal
government for collating and publish
ing to the world these official figures,
for they are sufficient answer to the
man from Iowa, the man from 1lli-
nois, and the man from Michigan,
who comes down on a trip to look the
situation over and because things
happen not to be done exactly in the
Nay he is doing them, begins to dis
course at length about the great pro-
ductive power of his country and to
scorn the conditions that his eyes