Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1873-10-29
Hay.
Tn. ore..s.s crop Of she werlA.
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A question widely DISCUSSED an-
wolves the relative value o. INC Wncn., ~.
cotton, ten and hay crops 0f tie Wor,u.
Wbicl, of these products employs ing
yrcnisst amount of t,6 wOrlu,s cnP.-
iniY Il is said That hny leads tue res''
and tho items that enter INTO tiie ne
count rs stated are somewhat start
ling, and will make u grangers hah
.lnId ON end. Cotton and ten are
local crops, while hay il prou,ice'l
,.verywl,cre tho world over. ana thus
the ,iay crop ontweiahs either OF !he
other two. The aggregate reporter
value of ali farm products for leo
wus 81. All, ,b3S ,65S; but rs this include,
lad,.tiious 10 stocks, ''bettermcufs,
etc. it is probably too high. Now
Tic bny crop for that ycar--that is,
the grass dried and cured for use or
solids reported at over 27,OOO,WO
tons. This, at half the selling price
in tho large cities, would amount TO
3 .O5, 900 600, and is far greater than
the aggregate home-value OF the cot
ton crop or any other crop. But the
..curet'' hnv is but II portion Of the
grass crop. The other portion Is used
on the ground, and it requires con-
siderable calculation to get at the va-
lue so used, even in the roughcst way.
| Ia tho first place live stock, INCLUDE
ing horned cattle. horses. sheep,
swine, etc., to the value OF 81 ,52j, ,O0O.-
900 were fed from il HAT year. Aver
aging the lives of these nj five years,
We have onc-fifth of that sum us
representing the grass fed TO them In
1870, namely 1906, 600 600; next, we
iiud the value of he animals siau9ifcr-
ell for food in that year to be 5000,
900 COO. aud as this is an annual pro-
duet, the whole of it, will for the
present be credited to the grass crop
next we find that the butter crop OF
1870 was 81 4,O00, 900 pounds. which, at
The low average OF Twenty-Five cents,
amounts to 1928 ,OC0, 900, and this goes
to tho credit of the grass; next we
have 235, ,OOO,O00 gallons of milk,
which, averaged nt the low estimate
of ten cents per gallon. adds 25.OO0,'
600 more TO the credit OF the grass
crop; then we have 10O, ,OOO,0OO pounds
of 0oI, Mt twenty-five cents n pound
adding S25 600. 600 more; aud. finally
50, ,000, 900 pounds Of cheese, nj ten
cents, adding over $4,000 600 to tho
total of these credits 10 the "rass crol
Of 1870, whlcl, aggregates $s77 COO 900
Now let us add the value of th'
ebay" crop as given above, viz: $lO5,
, O0O, 900, aud we have grand total fol
"hay" and the products of the grass
consumed on the ground amounting
TO 81 .292, 100000! This j., of course
subject to Il deduction, aS the meat
butter, cheese and wcol-producins
animals consume other food besides
grass and hay. To make ample nj
iowunc. for this, we deduct the entire
value of the corn and oat crops TO
1870, estimated at $270. 100000. ant
| this leaves remainder of 81 ,OS2. COO.
. COO to be credited to the hay aud Hras
+ crop of that year. hen the repOrtct
aggregate of all firm products wa
So, Az 1856 four estimates max
: even the rou"hesi approach to accu
/ racv, the value "f that crop was two
J Giths of the nggrrg tc value of al
farm products, aud t'cncc we may III
fer that twG-lil'ths of the capital the
. invested in agricultural pursuits wa
! devoted to the grass crop, aud this
tho Uuitcd States equals lin rom
uumberSl $3.50 100000. From thcs
Z figures The deduction is palpabie tha
King Cotton is uBrrownca and dt
thromed. aud we may be forced TO at
C init that all "ncsh," and all else,
j hay, if not ""raSs.'