Show I HAPPY FARMERS I Improvement Agricultural Conditions t Condi-tions 31 Per Cent Over 1896 Now York March M Tho improvement I improve-ment In agricultural mct agrloulural conditions now contrasted with the < depth ° c depression in i 1S94D6 Is as little 1S46 Itlc appreciated by the outaldopublle as was tho outsldoJmblc farmers farmers con conservative dition during however the hard to times say I tho Is I production of the United States farms Unite for tho past year was to the farmers I over JICOOOOO more than in either I of tho depressed years This Is an eiher average advance of 31 per cent in acre com pared These with the low p lnt statements aro made bv the American AnwrJcanAgrlulurlst for March which contains an elaborate elaborte review ot tho agricultural situation from sluatJon a flnan clal and Industrial standpoint fnan Tho live stock of standpoint lvc tho country is said to be worth 700000000 duS 700OOUOO more than dur lng the thaz ns hard times or a gain tmes fW cent Staple gin 3 per nor T J ° crops are worth NOOOOO OW 00 moro than then while other whie crops haw an Increase ot 2OOoooojo In value or a gain or 25 JCl 20000000 the pcpresslon of II compare wlt1 Thc woduce of live stock such as meat dairy products chC8 mutton and Jamb Inlton sheep hides and hidts pelts colts etc th said ls cols mules ar sW to show a gain or 370000 OMn or 40 per cent PCI above the low point Live stock itself has tw tockIsel advanced J Led near Jy or miltc as much and now weds the IP high point or the rise its highest point In iss that Even reached are onethird higher than four horses ago The years a1o total value of cattle on rVrms now aper cent more thaTi five thn1 years I ago while the 11e ealS SFVmIIOtlie average value Per hcaa oC cattle has I catle hr advanced 7C per above cent the low point of 1S93 I Milch I cow cows Mleh are worth 15 i per cent more than in IS3 nnd their lS2 total value Is 53 per cent greater than In ISOG Sheep are higher than for tu nt twenty years worth about worlhabolt double what they on the farm were live fve years ago and fully 20 are per cent higher than Tarhy 80 during the hlly The total value of in sheep the country is than U0 per cent greater In 189G realer Hogs have Occasionally been TflOte than worth m0C now but high are selling ot a ruige esp rR1ge especially clal compare with rhicep fhCcp corn The number wih cr hogs Is siiail lal compared wIth the Population wih Increase ot Populaton and trade BTowth ot export |