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I Baltimore, Md., March 15.?The
Manufacturers Record this week pubs'
lishes an elaborate review of the
I value of the farm products of the
H South last year, showing the followH
ing astonishing figures:
I In 1915 the gain in the value of all
I farm crops in the United States over
1914 was $526,070,000.
Of this gain $317,209,000, or a
I little over 60 per cent., was in the
I South, an amazing illustration of the
increase in the diversification of
B Southern agriculture.
The gain in the entire country,
I outside of the South, was $208,861,
000, or $108,400,000 less than the
I gain in the South.
I The percentage of increase for the
I South in 1915 over 1914 was 13.85
per cent.
9 The percentage of increase for the
I rest of the country in 1915 over
1914 was only 5.25 per cent.
B Notwithstanding the grea*. decrease
in the value of the cotton crop last
war conditions.
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I compared with the big crops and
high prices for some years prior to
the war, the rate of increase of the
Sooth's farm crops over the five-year
average from 1909 to 1913 was 6.23
per cent.
Though the cotton crop last year
was small and prices were lower than
I for some years prior to the war, the
value of last year's farm crops in the
I South was $153,000,000 greater than
I the average value for the five-year
H period from 1909 to 1913, both in
elusive.
I Notwithstanding the much lower
H value of last year's cotton crop com
pared with 1909 to 1913, while on
9 the other hand the West had large
I grain crops with high prices due to
I the phenomenal European demand
I for foodstuffs, the value of the
South's farm crops for 1915 was
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I $2,607,349,000 as comparea wiui $?,I
181,556,000 for the rest of the coun1
try. The United States Department
I of Agriculture estimates the value
I of last year's cotton crop, not includ
ing seed, at $580,000,000, which we
I think is probably an ultra-conservaB
tive figure. Counting the value of
I the seed, we believe the crop may be
I safely estimated at $750,000,000,
I though no exact figure can be given
B until the end of the crop season.
I Taking, however, an estimate of
I $750,000,000 as the value of the cot8
ton crop, including seed, this would
I leave as the value of other crops $1,I
957,000,000, or, in other words, the
I value of diversified crops was conI
siderably more than two and oneII
half times as great as the value of
I the cotton crop and nearly twice as
I great as the most valuable cotton
I crop ever produced by the South.
I It must be borne in mind that these
I figures relate to farm crops and not
I to all agricultural products, for they
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I do cot include tne vaiue ui
I products.
I The Department of Agriculture esI
timates the total value of animal
I products for the United States in
I 1915 at $3,849,000,000, but does not
I attempt to make an estimate as to
I the value by States.
I As the South has almost exactly
I one-third of the total number of liveI
stock in the United States, it is reaI
sonable to estimate the value of the
I animal products of this section as apI
proximately one-third of the total
I value for the whole country. This
1 may possibly be a fraction too high,
I but it cannot be vary far out of the
I way. Nevertheless, to be on the safe
I side, we will estimate the value of
I the South's animal products as 30
I per cent, instead of 33 1-3 per cent.
I of the total for the whole country.
I This would make the total for the
! South $1,054,000,000. Taking the
I round figure of $1,000,000,000, to be
I on the side of conservatism, and addI
ing it to the value of farm crops, we
f have a total of $3,600,000,000 as
| the value of all agricultural products
I of the South last year, and of this
I only aboyt $750,000,000 was repreJ
sented by cotton.
I Even if we were to take the strictI
ly cotton-growing States of North
I and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
I Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
I Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, it
I would be found that the value of
I farm products other than cotton is
I very much greater than the value of
I their cotton crops, whereas, when we
I include the non-cotton producing
I States, such as Kentucky, Maryland,
! Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia,
?a we pet the strikingly
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important fact which cannot be too
often reiterated and emphasized that
the value of diversified farm products
of the South last year was $2,850,000,000,
against $750,000,000 for
cotton. Cotton, therefore, comprised
but little more than one-fifth
of the total agricultural products of
$3,600,000,000 of the South, and the
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other products were neariy iuui
times as great in value as the cotton
crop.
Some very striking facts are
brought out by comparing the value
of farm crops in some of the Southern
States with Eastern and Western
States.
For instance, the value of Georgia's
farm crops, last year, of $233,506,000
was more than $1,000,000,000 in
excess of the value of Pennsylvania's,
and was $32,000,000 in excess
of the value of Michigan's, $54,000,i
000 in excess of the value of Wisconsin's,
nearly $13,000,000 in exof
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and $66,000,000. in excess of South
Dakota's.
Kansas, with all of its wonderful
agricultural prosperity, exceeded the
value of Georgia's farm crops by only
$29,000,000; but Kansas and
Pennsylvania and New York and
Michigan and Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and even Iowa, are all left
\ completely in the shade in comparison
with the value of the farm crops
of Texas, which figured up last year
$407,000,000. If to this could be
added the value of the livestock products
of Tex?s, the, total for that
State would show amazingly targe
RICULTURAL
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(Jaiiiorma iea $>zi,uuu,vyu oenu
Georgia in the value of its far
crops, and was only $10,000,01
ahead of North Carolina, which hi
crop values of $202,000,000 again
$212,000,000 for California.
Washington and Oregon were i
significant in crop values as comps
ed with most of the Southern Stat<
Virginia had twice the value of Or
gon; North Carolina three times
much and South Carolina .conside
ably more than twice as much
Oregon.
These statistics of comparison
Southern States with other Stat
open up such a wide avenue f
study and investigation that it m;
j be worth while presenting the val)
I of all crops by States for the enti
country that our readers may ha
the chance of picking out for thei
selves many interesting facts.
These values were as follows:
Estimated val
of all crops
State. 1915.
Maine $ 56,3
New Hampshire 19,4
Vermont 39,2'
Massachusetts. 46,1
Rhode Island 5,1
Connecticut 30,8
New York 273,7
New Jersey r 58,3
Pennsylvania 232,3
Delaware 12,3
Maryland 55,0
Virginia 152,7
West Virginia 68,9
North Carolina 202,0
South Carolina 150,9
Georgia 233,5
Florida 43,4
Ohio 260,6
Indiana 234,0
Illinois 408,1
Michigan __ __ ? 200,6
Wisconsin 179,0
Minnesota __ __ __ 241,8
Iowa 324,3
Missouri _ 251,5
North Dakota 220,8
South Dakota , 167,3
Nebraska 245,8
Kansas 262,1
Kentucky 152,0
Tennessee ? , 146,3
Alabama 160,3
Mississippi 149,6
Louisiana 114,5
Texas 407,0
Oklahoma 173,6
Arkansas 145,3
Montana 76,0
Wyoming 24,6
Colorado __ __ __ 71,6
New Mexico 15,6
Arizona 10,2
Utah 26,8
Nevada 12,9
Idaho 48,7
Washington __ __ 92,6
Oregon 70,6
California 212,2!
United States $6,788,9'
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pare the value of all crops for 19'
and 1915 for the Southern Stat<
The figures are as follows:
Value of Farm Crops..
States 1909. 191E
Ala. $144,287,000 $160,371,0
Ark. __ 119,419,000 145,340,0
jFla. ... 36,142,000 43,488,0
I Ga. 226,595,000 233,506,0
IKy 138,973,000 152,007,0
La. 77,336,000 114,584,0
Md. _ _ 43,920,000 55,082,0
Miss ___ 147,316,000 149,690,0
Mo 220,664,000 251,518,0
N. C. __ 142,890,000 202,079,0
Okla. __ 133,454,000 173,680,0
S. C. __ 141,983,000 150,940,0'
Tenn. _ 120,706,000 146,362,0
Tex. __ 298,133,000 407,040,0
Va. 100,531,000 152,717,0'
W. Va. 40,375,000 68,945,0'
I Total for _
South $2,132,724,000 $2,607,349,0
Total for rest of country
$3,353,891,000 4,181,556,i
$5,486,615,000 $6,788,905,0'
The gain in value of farm crops
1915 in the United States over 19i
was $1,302,000,000, of which $47'
623,000, or 36.4 per cent., was
the South.
When it is remembered that t
war gave almost a staggering blc
to the South's cotton, while it enc
mously enhanced the price of W<
tern wheat and corn and resulted
a great increase in the acreage <3
voted to wheat, it is an amazing fa
that the increase in crop values b
tween 1909 and 1915 was 22.2 p
cent., in the South and only 24.7 p
cent, in the rest of the countr
whereas one might have expected ti
rest of the country to make almc
twice as good a showing as ti
South.
It will be noticed that the progre
in some of these States has bei
very much larger than in othei
suggesting an investigation on t
part of those which have not rel
tively kept pace with the more pi
gressive ones as to the cause of t
small rate of growth.
The amount of corn still on fan
on March 1, according to repoi
just made by the United States E
partment of Agriculture, shows
twelve Southern States, omitti.
West Virginia, Florida, South Car
lina and Maryland, for which figur
are not available, 170,000,000 bus
els of corn in excess of the amou
on farms in these twelve States <
the same date last year, whereas
all the rest of the country there w
only 58,000,000 bushels of co
more than on the corresponding da
last year. On March 1, these twel
Southern States still had on t
farms a total of 463,358,000 bus
els of corn against 293,000,200 bus
els at the corresponding time la
year. The total amount of corn <
all farms in the entire country i
March 1 was 1,138,000,000 bushe
and of this considerably over 40 p
cent, was on Southern farms.
| These figures as to the amount of
' corn on Southern farms strikingly "f|
show the increasing strength of di- ye
/versified agriculture in the South p J
and of the ability of Southern farm- 1
ers to hold their grain. If the farm- | ?
ers of the South, through the hearty f 3
co-operation of land owners and " I
every business man, banker, mer- | f
* chant and manufacturer, will con- f I
' tinue for one or two years more to I J
ij! give the attention to diversified I
j farming shown in this presentation j a
t of amazing improvement, this sec- > J
tion will forever get beyond the one- i ?
crop system which formerly prevail- J
n" ed, cotton will then become a sur- * |
ir* plus crop, grains, grasses and cattle j
;s* will be found in abundance in every [
e" part of the South, and universal ! J
as prosperity of farmers and all inter- 1
5r" ests dependent upon farmers will |
as prevail as never before.?Manufac- | 1
turers Record. 1
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es ALL IRISHMEN, GOOD AND [ J
?y TRUE, CELEBRATED 17TH J I
ue . ... ? 1
J? Last Friday, Was the Birthday of J 1
Ireland's Patron Saint Observed 1
| Throughout the World. ?
The Celtic race and its descend- [ J
ue ants celebrated Friday in all coun- p ]
5. tries of the world. From the Emer- ]
aid Isle men have gone far and wide [ j
in search of fortune and liberty, and | ]
0? have cherished in their children the J 1
jjjj memory of St Patrick, the patron I j
saint. In America Friday, as in the f
quaint villages and mighty cities of ]
Ireland, as in the battle ranks and I ?
warships' turrets under Britain's flag, |
the shamrock was worn and the * ]
good St. Patrick is remembered. W
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, IC
-4 everv town and hamlet has its Irish- I 1
man or its man of Celtic blood. Ev- ]
*' ery city witnessed the gathering of its I <
Irish citizens to pay honor to the (
'jj saint. While in some the rancor of J
saint. While in somethe rancor of pol- ?
^ itics stirred up by those' who would |
55 cause, the gatherings are mainly ]
patriotic and religious, expressing 1
!?;? more than ever the profourtd hope | f
for liberty and progress in the green | I
ni isle. I
q i Despite the fact that authentic rec- I Z
q o ords of St. Patrick are to be had, I J
?5 some dating back almost to his own ]
in time, the average reader will prob- I m
Qa ably admit that all he knows about ff J
3? St. Patrick is that he drove the - ]
snakes out of Ireland and is beloved ? <t
QY by the Irish. J3ut St. Patrick is more J
62 deserving of honor and fame for p ]
turning the Irish from their worship 1
90 of idols and hobgoblins to Christian- ( "
g4 ity than for ridding the Emerald Isle ff J
4Q of creeping things. He was the apos- J 1
gO tie of the Irish, and there was no in- I
^0 fluence so great as his in the his- f J
a o tory of the race. || 1
Q3 The date of St. Patrick's birth is a I
gg mooted question, some writers plac- J J
33 ing it at 377, and others five years J
enrlipr. linHnnht.pHlv livpd to ? La
g5 ripe age, and historians place his m
gg death on March 17th, 454. gV
35 He was captured by pirates when
Q9 he was sixteen years old and taken Q"
79 to Ireland from France. He was set
gg to work tending sheep in the moun- |i
tains, and while doing so prayed fer- *
Q5 vently day and night "in the snow,
in the frost and in the rain." After
six years of slavery, St. Patrick es09
caped from Ireland in a small boat
es. and returned to France, where he
was again captured. Some few years
later he again made his way to Ire- E M
land where he began his long work of ? J
cambatting the Druids at Tara. 2 1
00 There is a story to the effect that I
00 when he was first taken to Ireland by ? I
00 the pirates, he was sold into slavery . ]
00 in exchange for an old kettle. When I
00 this kettle was filled with water and ?
00 placed over the fire, the water be- I
came colder and colder as the fire Jfi
00 increased instead of hotter, and |fj
00 would not boil until St. Patrick him00
self prayed over it. "K
00 There are several versions of the Q"
00 banishment of snakes from Ireland,
00 One is that while St. Patrick was on Jfi
00 Mount Eagle, he was attacked by ser- Of
00 pents, which he drove headlong into S
00 the sea. Another historian declares 31
? that an Egyptian prince visited Ire- U|
land and expelled the reptiles, and ?
00 that toward the close of St. Patrick's iT|
life there was a certain huge snake IE
00 that had not been expelled. St. Pat- rt?
rick procured a huge oak chest, so 31
00 the story goes, into which he enticed KC
the big serpent by suggesting it ||?
ln would be more comfortable than the
hard ground. The lid was bolted
*?" down and the serpent begged for his UP
"* release, jdui at. raincit was oDuur- -u
ate and said he would release him J I
he "to-morrow." Then he tossed the | j
>w chest into the lakes of Killarney. The r 3
>r- legend further runs that fishermen 1
is- ever afterward heard the wily old I f
in snake crying to know if "tomorrow" ? 3
le- had come yet. And they said his J
ct writhing was what caused the waves I >e
of the sea and his pleas for release 1
er the ocean's roar. |
er The ruins of Slane Abbey on Tara j J
y, Hill is the greatest memorial to his 1
be labor. Throughout Ireland are many { f
'St "standing stones" with a cross grav- ? 3
he en on them by order of St. Patrick, S 1
symbolic of the consecrating of the I .
jss Emerald Isle to Christianity. Be- ff I
en fore St. Patrick's time these stones . g
rs, were fetishes of the pagan belief] I
he but he placed the cross upon them J "
a- to typify the triumph of Christianity. > 1
o- The Cathedral of St. Patrick at Dun I ?
he Patrick is filled with monuments and F
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memorial xaoiers. mere is a cuvcxeu
ns well within the enclosure believed to
have been used by the saint himself. [
,e_l St Patrick's body is buried under g J
jn'a huge rock adjacent to this cathe- I
np. dral. On the rock is engraved the | \
single word "Patrick." ? J
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in Anderson, March 16.?A corps of ? I
as engineers began a preliminary sur- I .
rn vey this afternoon of the proposed (f I
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ve Atlanta. Anderson county's snare
be of the allotment to secure the road j |
h- has been placed at $175,000. Two ? ]
h- routes are under consideration. Peo- j 1 ?
ist pie living on the upper or Townville |
jn route announce that they have se- J
in cured $150,000 and more to be rais- *
Is, ed tomorrow. The road is being l3fl
er promoted by Atlanta capitalists. 1
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