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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 51.

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Note and Comment

By Editor

The Crop Report

THE annual report of Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural Department is thus summed up by the Outlook:—
This year's report is the most cheerful of any yet issued, in that it reports the most prosperous of all years. The value of farm products for this year is no less than eight billion seven hundred million dollars, a gain of eleven per cent over 1908. Nor is this all. The value of the products has nearly doubled in ten years—there is a sum of seventy billion dollars for the decade. As Secretary Wilson says, “it has paid off mortgages, it has established banks, it has made better homes, it has helped to make the farmer a citizen of the world, and it has provided him with means for improving his soil and making it more productive. The 1909 corn crop alone tallies one billion seven hundred twenty million dollars.”
We thank God for all that this has meant to our brethren on their farms and to all of us, who share in the bounties of nature. “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.” He is still giving the fruitful seasons, and bearing witness to all of his care for his creatures. But how few recognize the Giver, to give glory to him and to render to him his own.