REPORT 



OP THE 



SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. President: 



I respectfully present my Fourteenth Annual Report, covering the 

 work of the Department of Agriculture for the year 1910. 



AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION OF 1910. 



HIGHEST VALUE EVER REACHED. 



PROSPERITY MAINTAINED. 



Year after year it has been my privilege to record "another most 

 prosperous year in agriculture." Sometimes the increased prosperity 

 has been due to weather unusually favorable to agriculture, some- 

 times to higher values caused either by a greater yield or demand or 

 by greater money returns due to a scant production; but usually the 

 advance in farmers' prosperity has been in spite of various draw- 

 backs. It would seem that this country is so large in extent and 

 has such varied climate, sod, and crops that no nation-wide calamity 

 can befall its farmers. Combined with this strong position in agri- 

 culture, the Nation may now begin to derive increased confidence 

 in its agriculture because of improvements that are permeating the 

 whole country in consequence of a grand movement sustained by the 

 National Department of Agriculture and the various state agencies^ 



VALUE OF ALL PRODUCTS. 



Nothing short of omniscience can grasp the value of the farm prod- 

 ucts 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. This amount is larger than that of 1909 by 

 $305,000,000, an amount of increase over the preceding year which 

 is small for the more recent years. 



The value of farm products from 1899 to the present year has beeu 

 progressive without interruption. If the value of that census year be 

 regarded as 100, the value of the agricultural products of 1900 was 

 106.4; that of 1901 was 112.7; that of 1902 was 119.1; that of 1903 



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