Show INDIAN CORN IS GREATEST CROP Total Value Exceeds That of Cotton Cot-ton Hay and Wlicat Greatest of all crops is Indian corn tho priceless gift of tho Indian who freely gave to tho white man Information Informa-tion which led to the production of 2613000000 bushels this year The crops of three years have exceeded this but only tho crop of one year 190G exceeded It very much The value of this crop almost surpasses sur-passes belief It is 1015000000 This wealth that has grown out of the soil In four months of rain and sunshine and some drought too is enough to cancel tho interest beadng debt of tho United States and to pay for tho Panama Pan-ama canal and CO battleships Tho price of corn Is exceptionally high There are only two years in the record of this department in which tho farm prlco of this crop was as high as It is for this year In 1881 the prlco was C3G cents In 1901 when there was only twothirds of an ordinary crop tho price was COG cents Tho total value of this crop is by far tho highest over reached Tho crop of 1902 was worth 1000000000 and tho crops of 1904 1905 and 190G wore worth 100000000 more tho groat Increase of 300000000 over tho crop of 1902 was made In 1907 and now the increase Is 600000 equal to tho gold in tho treasury of a rich nation na-tion Tho corn crop far exceeds In value the prominent farm crops next below It Is worth nearly as much this year as the great crops of cotton hay and wheat combined In comparison with the averages of tho preceding five years the quantity of tho corn crop of this year is 21 percent per-cent higher and the valuo 426 percent per-cent higher |