St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1911-12-09

| than the hve We ar average. ApouI
one-f fourth of the worlds oats IS
| grown in this country.
The potato crop of 282 ,00o,ooo
bushels is about, 80 per cent OF the
average product ion, but the farm
price has Increased to such an extent
that the total value of the crop Is the
highest of record and amounts to
1928, 1000.
Barley is another crop deficient
| in production. The 146,00O,0OO
bushels are IL per cent below the
five year average, but the total value
OF the crop is about 1925, 100000,
and much above the record value OF
1907.
The tobacco, crop, is estimated to
be about 500 100000 pounds, or 2
l per cent under the five year average,
and to be worth about $76,O00,OOO,
| or So per cent under the five year
average. The tobacco grown in this
country durin G the last five years
is 81 per cent of the worlds crop,
and supplied other countries with
quantity that is 42.3 per cent OF the
worlds exports of tobacco.
The produc ton of flaxseed this
| year has been exceeded many times,
but the total value has never been
equaled. The crop of 22,OOO,OOV
bushels has a farm value OF about
$4,000, 900.
Rye has the low production of
l31 100000 bushels, but the value,
I$26, 100000, is 1872 per cent above
the five year average.
| The sugar beet crop, which for
several years remained close 10
1870, 100000 in value, has risen to
more than $24,0O0,000 this year, an
lincrea Sc Of 23.5 per cent above the
FIVE ear average. This is a crop to
the establishment and growth or
| which the Department OF Agricul-
Iture has directed some of Its best
efforts.
No other crop exhibits such high
in crease of value over the five year
leverage as the hop crop does. 1t is
lao per cent. This is because the
T rice of hops, which has usually been
10 to 20 cents a pound, has risen to
SO cents pound. Consequently
1.-THE crop value has become $15.500,-
1000. The production, on the other
| Inland, has fallen off Is per cent from
1.-THE five years average. Nearly one
| fourth Of the worlds exports OF hops
go from this country, and a little
over one-fourth of the worlds crop
lis produced here.
Rice is one of the five crops that
lhave production above the hve
Iyear average, but the am cunt, al.
though little over 1,000,000,0O0
pounds, has been exceeded twice.
The buckwheat crop has beN5n ex'
ceeded in production by onl.T two
crops since the sixties, and the value
by no year subsequent to thai
decade.
AS sort of measure of the yes T.;
: performance in agriculture, ~
bushels of the cereals are added t,1
gether and compared with totals
former years. The tota! for this
year, 1922, 100000. is "a per cent
below the five year average, ard the
Secretary adds, while 1t indicates
that the agricultural year Of 1911
was below par, it is far from indi-
eating any degree of calamity. II
: the great cotton crop be taken into
! account, the total crop production is
. below the average in less degree
: than the cereals suggest. -
! Although sugar making belongs
: to manufacturing, 1t is asserted thai
cane and beet production can bes
be treated through the sugar mad,
e from them. The Secretary says
0 81 am gratified to see that the bee
p sugar tonnage reaches the figure %
!. neary 100000 short tons. 1t indi
n Gates that we can make our sugar.
: This is the largest amount ever mad
:, In this country by about $4,000 ton
Il and Is "a per cent above the flv
e year average. The value has, o
Q course, scared and amounts to abou
S $50, 100000, including value of pull
: the highest previous value bein
0 about $60.000,000 for 1909.
t The cane sugar production OF 191
:. is estimated to be about $4,000
e short tons Of raw sugar, or 5ls pc
lcent above the five year average
r with a value of about !i45 LOOT
0 or So per cent over the five yea
> average.
0 Both kinds of suglt combined
e the production equals. about CTS
LOCO short tons, or abont $4,000 ton
more than the record production c
# 1909. The factory value of thi
e sugar and the beet pulp. which
It used for feeding purposes, Is abou
sI35,000. 900, or about 100000
= more than the record value.
!, The year 1911 was poor one fc
g record-breaking crops, since the iii
t includes only cotton and sugar beet
g Apart from these two. crops, not