Deseret Evening News | 1908-01-02 | Page 4 | Farms and Prosperity

FARMS ARMS AND PROSPERITY Brooklyn Citizen Uy By the annual report of ot the time tu 11 I department Congress and und the tho public are aro or of the Iho fact that thattie tie thc country never was vas In a 1 sounder condition than ball It tl Is today because the theann farm ann Is the tho base on which Its ItIS pros prosperity rests In Iii this thill Secretary James Wilson explains that tho the total value of ot all nU farm faim products for tOI Or 1907 I 07 Is Js V which Is 10 per cent greater than thOu ton for 1906 antI and that was Willi far fILl above tIle the total of any ally preceding year tar That this lila Increase Is LB duo In sonic some In lii fact In iii large measure to tho th addition to the tha farming area areu caused by the iho Irrigation of ot at allU Id and und semiarid land appears from Crom his statement that thul the tho Irrigated urea aiea now under cultivation Is 11 ii acres and the crops grown on this area murea In 1907 were worth not than HII Next year It If present prices me flie maintained tho the products ot of Irrigation farming should be worn worm In mm speaking of ot farm prodUcts prod products prot tIle the general Idea Iden Is III that grain and md foods muo aro to but bu Iho hut report shows that nearly ot of the tho entire yield of or the tha farms was US In animals cattle cuttle sheep and anni swine mostly most mos mostly ly 1 KO so far fan as us numbers go though tho the horses were wore not miot far am behind if money value taking all alt the tho form farm pros prod together It II appears secre secra tray asserts that thaI our foreign credit Is sustained mainly by b our farmers the balance of ot trade on Or our aldo of ot HO In 1907 1901 being duo due to the tho exports of ot farm products