Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 9, 1910, Page 7

WILSON LAUDS THE FARMER Recites the Risk the Food Producer Must Face. $8,926,000,000 IN CROPS Such Is Amazing Value ot Farm Prod- ucts For 1910 as Stated In Secretary of Agriculture’s Report. 8ome Details of the Department's Work. Annual Washington, Dec. 9.—The secretary of agriculture, James Wilson, has is- sued his annual report. He reviews conditions throughout the country in a comprehensive manner. He says in part: “Nothing short of omniscence can grasp the value of the farm products of this year At no time in the world’s history has a country produced farm | products within one year with a value reaching $8,926,000,000, which is the value of the agricultural products of this country for 1910. The value of farm products from 1899 to the pres- ent year has been progressive without interruption. If the value of the prod- ucts of 1899 is placed at 100 the value for this year is 189, or about double the value for the census year eleven years ago. During this period of un- exampled agricultural production, a period of twelve years, during which the farmers of this country have stead- ily advanced in prosperity and wealth and in economic independeénce, in?in- telligence and a knowledge of agricul- ture, the total value of farm products is $79,000,000,000. “The corn crop of 3,121,351,000 bush- els exceeds that of the record year 1906 and is greater than the average crop of the preceding five years by 14 per cent. While the value of this corn crop is below that of 1909 and also of 1908, its amount belongs to stories of magic. It can hardly be reckoned as less than $1,500,000,000, a sum suffi- cient to cancel the interest bearing debt of the United States, buy all of the gold and silver mined in all of the countries of the earth in 1909 and still leave to the rarmers a little pocket money. Corn In the South. “The growing importance of the South in corn production is becoming conspicuous. In 1889 it produced hardly more than one-fifth of the na- tional crop; now it produces one-third. The cotton crop of this year may be worth in Lnt and seed around $900,- 000,000 at the farm, or more than the corn crop was worth in any year prior to 1901. This value is 13 per cent above the five year average. The value of the hay crop is about $720, 000,000, an amount which has been ex- ceeded bu: once, and that in 1907. It is 13 per cent above the average of the preceding five years. Fortunately the wheat crop is divided into two sowings, autumn and spring, so that the two crops are subject to different climatic accidents, as was the case this year. The production of spring and winter wheat is 691,767,000 bush- els, or substantially the average of the preceding five years, whereas the value is about $625,000,000, or 7.6 ‘per cent above the five year average. Production Per Acre Increasing. “Production per acre is beginning to overtake increase of people. The evi- MUCH APPENDICITIS IN BEMIDJI Many people in Remidji have chronic Ap- pendicitis and mistake it for stomach or bowel trouble. If you have wind or gas in the stomach or bowels, sour stomach or con- stipation, try simple buckthorn bark, gly- cerine etc., as compounded in Aldzr-i-ka, the new German = Appendicitis remedy. SINGLE DOSE will relieve you—you will be surprised at the QUICK action. French & Co.. Druggists. HONEY Best in Minnesota Honey that took first price at the State Fair. The choicest Willow-Herb and Aster Honey. If your grocer can't supply you write to CARL OPSATA BEMIDJI, MINN. Sample 10 centsand 10 cents may apply on the first order that you send. William C. Klein| Real Estate Insurance Real Estate & Farm Loans O’Leary-Bowser Bldg. Phone 19 acre of our crops are now increasing, and if the facts were assembled in de: tail for the statés it would be found that the percentage of increase in yietd of many of them is greater than the percentage of normal increase of pop- ulation—that is, the increase of births over deaths in the old native element.” “Instruction in the methods of road building,” the report says, “has con- tinued through the medium of object lesson roads built at local expense un- der the supervision of an engineer of the office of public roads. More than 1,000,000 square yards of road, equiv- alent to about fourteen miles of road fifteen feet wide, were completed dur- ing the year.” After presenting many details with regard to the increase of prices on farm products between farmer and consumer, the secretary of agriculture declares = that *“the conclusion is inevitable that the consumer has no well grounded complaint against the farmer for the prices that he pays. The farmer supplies the capital for, production and -takes'the risk of his losses; his crops are at the mercy of drought and flood and heat and frost, to say nothing of noxious insects and blighting diseases. He supplies hard, exacting, unremitting labor.” Dairy Investigation. The report also says: “Twenty- eight new associations for the co- operative testing of cows belonging to members were formed during the year; fifty-five are now in operation. Such tests, which enable the owners ko discard unprofitable cows, raised the average annual profit per cow in one association from $21 43 to $42.82: in four years. “The work in cattle tu,k eradication resulted in the release from quarantine of 57,518.square miles, the largest area released since the beginning of the work in 1966. The total area so far released is 129,611 square miles in eleven Southern states.” dence is very plain that the yields per GHRISTMAS City Drug Store’s SPECIALS| Select Your Christmas Wants from This List I ' FOR THE LADIES l Silver Toilet Sets. .... $2.00 to $15.00° Gold Toilet Sets. 3.00 to 12.00 Ebony Toilet Sets 1.00 to Walnut Toilet Sets... 2.00 to Rosewood Toilet Sets. 1.00 to Jewel Cases—Silver.. 1.25 to Jewel Cases—Gold... .75to Jewel Cases—Leather 1.00 to Triple Mirrors....... .75 to Hand Mirrors... .10 to Manicure Sets. . 50 to Music Bags " Fancy Wisk Brooms Writing Sets . Statiouery 5.00 6.50 3.00 5.00 6.00 3.50 5.00 5.00 Traveling Sets Perfume Atomizers Post Card Albums Handkerchief Boxes Glove Boxes ’ Puff Boxes Desk Novelties Palmer,s Xmas Perfumes 10c to $10 Toilet Waters........... 25¢ to $2 Brushes and Combs Pictures Photo Holders Novelties of all Kinds BoOKS:cseeenniiainiaine 25¢ to $1.25 Hudson’s Xmas Candies 10c to $2.00 The New Gty 6.00. l ! 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