Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-08

per cent above the average production
OF the five preceding years. It's value
Will be about $4,000. 600, or about the
game us that of the crop of 1893, and
fully s20,000,000 more than any tobacco
crop antedating that year.
Barley has hardly maintained the
average production of the preceding
Ave years, the crop ofsthis year being
5S.13S,00O bushels, but it's value, $751;,
LOCO, is 16 per cent above the five
year average
fnlaxseed production is far below that
Of recent years on account OF severe
drouth. the preliminary estimate being
15,G50,0O0 bushels. but the price OF flax
seed scared to s2.29 by Nov. ], so that
the value OF the entire crop is about
$50. 600. COO. an amount which was ex-
ceeded only in 1909.
RYE AND RICE.
Rye is one OF the steady crops, both
in quantity and In value: the produc-
ton OF s32, osS, 900 bushels this year be-
ing worth at the farm about $23 1000. COO.
Rice production in 1910 remained sub
slntialy at the figure OF 1909, or n 1T
tlo over 1,G00,00O.GOo pounds Of rough
rice. No year previous to 1909 produced
Us large a crop. The price of rice, how
ever has declined so that the crop OF
this year is worth hardly sl6,0o0,0o0.
1'',c hop crop is regarded as 10 per
cent below the average Of the previous
Ave years and the smallest crop in
dozen years or more: but the farm
price has improved over the average of
the previous five years, so that the to-
tai value Of the crop is 8 per cent above
that average.
YIELD UNPRECEDENTED.
This is the year of highest produce
n, ha "a nj a
cereals. and for tobacco. But the only
crop that reached its highest value
this year Is cotton.
In the list Of crops that stands next
TO the highest in production are found
rice. hay, beet sugar. and the total for
ali sugar, in the list OF crops that are
nest to the hghest in value nre wheat.
oats. barley, tobacco, flaxseed. beet su
gar, aud the total for all sugar. 4. ~.
The potato crop Is third In order of
quantity, and the corn crop and the
total FOR all cereals third in value. Bar
ley and rye were fourth in production
and potatoes fourth lin value. Eifth in
production was wheat and fifth in value
rice, The value of the farm products
of 1910 shows both gains and losses In
COMPARISON With 1903. A gainiof $780,
100000 is made for cotton lint and seed:
s3o,OC0,00O for hay: and S3,C00coO for
Jui icy. ~ loSS WIS StlIltt Sluh tIlefCASS
of wheat amounting to $lC4,0a0, 600:
corn. $oS,c00,0O0 oats. $4,000 GOO; gpota-
toes and WOOL. s23.oNO,oGo EACH 80
The farm value of the cArfal crops
declined s23O,0oooOo in 1910 from 1909
and the value of all crops declined sl10.-
100000. a gain was made however. in
the value ofanimal products amounting
to si2iO0O,0 900. 1t has been year Of
high prices for meat and animals, for
poultry and eggs, and for milk and
butter, and for these reasons the total
value of all farm products increased
in 1910 s30i,000,000 above the estimate
for 1909.
BALANCE OF TRADE.
Except for two years, 1895 and 1861,
the highest balance OF trade In favor
of this country in foreign tradcIn farm
products was s4SS.oo4.7H7 for 1908. a year
which seems to mark the eliminating
point In the course of the balance of
foreign trade In farm products. In
1909 the balance declined to s274.21O.152
and in 1910 the decline continued to
s19S .090925.