The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-08

classes of animal products and animals
 sold and slaughtered. Dairy cows are
 the only farm animals for which in-
 crease of price is indicated. Eggs,
 wool, butter, and poultry have suffer
 ed in farm price during the year. In
 consequence of the decline of prices
 of farm animals and their products,
 this group is estimated as having pro-
 duced value of $2,913, ,0OO,000 in 1911,
 1910.
 On the other hand, the crops are
 worth more than those for 1910, the es-
 timate of their farm value being $5,-
 504, 100000 gain of $44,000, ,0O0 over
 1910. Farm prices of all crops are
 higher than for 1910 except for cotton,
 cotton seed, and faxseed, and this gen.
 eral fact, notwithstanding the other
 general fact that production was low,
 makes about 10 crops of 1911 the most
 valuable ones of the same kinds that
 the farms of this country have ever produced
 Interesting comparisons are made with official estimates in other cOun- tries of the value of products produc ed by the farms in those countries. An estimate of $1, ,351, ,000, coo is quoted for Italy, of $613,000,000 for Japan, of $484,- 000,0 900 for Australia, and of $900, 900, 900 for Canada.
 With value more than twice that of the cotton crop this year and but little less than the combined values of the cotton, wheat, and oats crops, corn is by far the leading crop as a wealth producer. The estimate of g. 776,000,000 bushels indicates a produc- tion that has been exceeded in only twu years. The farm price of corn is,now higher than it has been since the records of the department began in 1866, except in 1883. and this estab- fishes a total value for the crop that
 reaches $1,7O0,000,000 and breaks the record. So pre-eminently is corn the leading crop of this country that about three fourths of the worlds crop is grown here. But the exports of corn con- stitute one one-third of the worlds ex- ports of corn.
 That large crop may be worth
 less to the producers than small one is exemplified by the cotton crop to be the largest one ever grown, this crop has reached a price that is 5 cents pound lint below that of last year, when the crop was much less
 in quantity, and for the same reason | the price of seed has declined. Ap- bparently the value of the fiber and l seed of this years crop will not ex- l ceed $775, 000,000-an amount that l is below that of two former crops, although above the average of the pISCCdiuS lNC ySdIC. There is no crop that this country produces that excites such worldwide | interest as cotton, for the reason that | the crop of the United States is about | three-fifth of the worlds production, | contributes two-thirds Of the worlds exports, and has a fiber of a sort that
 has no direct competition in other I countries.
 A low production of fl, ,OO0, 900 tons of hay is far below the five-year average yield of 3,500,000 tons, and was ex- ceeded by the crop of 1884 and every
 year since 1888. Notwithstanding the | low production the price has not cor
 respondingly advanced, for the reasons, probably, that there was good and
 late fall pasturage and that the farms | have great deal of roughage to take i the place of hay. The value of hay | is placed at little less than s7OO, ,0OO,-
 900, and this is $50,OO0O00 more than ! the estimated value of the cotton lint
 produced this year and $100, ,000, 900 more i than the value of the wheat crop. Wheat is the crop fourth in order of value and is worth $500, 900, ,00O The l estimate of the department places the
 production at 656.000,O00 bushels, an | amount that would have been much exceeded had weather conditions been l favorable.
 | This country produced one-fifth of
 the worlds wheat crop during the last | five years and contributed about one | eighth of the worlds exports.
 The yield of the oats crop is esti-
 mated to be STA, 900, 900 bushels, a low
 amount caused by adverse weather. Its | value is placed at $3SO 900. 900. or per | About one-fourth of the worlds oats l is grown in this country.
 l The potato crop of 282.000, ,0O0 bushels is about 90 per cent. of the average