Eureka Reporter | 1909-12-03 | Page 14 | Farmers Smash All Records Section

FARMERS SMASH ALL RECORDS total value of farm products esti estl mated at washington secretary of agrical ture wilson la in hlo hi annual report says the value ot of faim products Is so incomprehensibly large that it has become merely a row of figures for this year it Is 8 a gain ot of L over 1908 the value ot of the products has nearly doubled in ten years I 1 the most striking fact in the worlds agriculture Is the value ot of the corn crop for 1909 which Is about 1720 1 it nearly equals the value of the clothing C lothing and pei personal onal Bonal adornments of 76 people ac cording to the census of 1900 cotton Is now the second crop in value and this years year s cotton crop is easily the most valuable one to the farmer that has been produced with cotton I 1 nt selling at 13 7 cents on the farm november 1 and w with ith cot ton seed selling for about 25 per ton the lint and seed of this crop are worth about to the farmers third in value Is wheat worth about at the farm and this largely exceeds all previous values the november farm price was almost an even dollar a bushel a price which has not been equalled equal led since 1881 this is the third wheat crop in point of size with bushels the hay crop is valued at oats at 00 potatoes at and tobacco at nearly beet and cane sugar and molasses and syrup from farm and factory will reach the total of about 95 the barley cropis crop is worth 88 flax seed 06 and 1000 pounds of rice 25 OGO the production of all cereals corn com bained Is 4 bushels bushe Is an amount considerably greater than that for any other year except 1906