The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-08

production, but the farm price has in- 1 creased to such an extent that the total value of the crop is the highest l of record and amounts to $213, ,000, 900.
 Barley is another crop deficient in production. The 146,0 900 bushels are 12 per cent. below the fve-year aver age, but the total value of the crop is about $125, ,000, GOO, and much above the record value of 1907
 The tobacco crop is estimated to be about S00,000,000 pounds, or 2 per cent. under the fve-year average, and to be | worth about $76,000, GOO, or 5.3 per cent. under the f1ve-year average. The to- bacco grown in this country during | the last five years is 31 per cent. of the worlds crop, and supplied other countries with a quantity that is 42.3 | per cent. of the worlds exports of to- bacco.
 The production of faxseed this year | has been exceeded many times, but | the total value has never been equaled. l The crop of 22,000,000 bushels has a | farm value of about $47,O00,000.
 Rye has the low production of 31, ,000, | GOO bushels, but the value, $26, ,OG0, 600, 1 is 12.2 per cent above the fve-year av- 1 craze. eral years remained close to $20.000,000 in va.ue, has risen to more than $24,- 900, GOO this year, an increase of g 1-2 per cent. above the flve-year average. This is crop to the establishment and growth of which the Department of Agriculture has directed some of it's | best efforts. No other crop exhibits such a high increase of value over the f1ve-year average as the hop crop does. It is 1 price of hops, which has usually been 10 to 20 cents pound has risen to 3S cents Consequently the crop val
 ue has become $15,500, coo. The produc- : tion, on the other hand, has fallen off | 15 per cent. from the flve-year- aver ! exports of hops go from this coun- ! try, and a little over one-fourth of
 the worlds crop is produced here. l Rice Is one of the five crops that
 have production above the hve-year ! average, but the amount, although a i little over 1000, ,000, 900 pounds, has been 1 exceeded twice.
 The buckwheat crop has been ex- ! ceeded in production by only two crops
 since the sixties, and the value by no year subsequent to that decade.
 1 As sort of measure of the years performance in agriculture, the bush els of the cereals are added together
 and compared with totals of former
 years: The total for this year( 4,52a.-
 100000, is 3.4 per cent. below the five
 year average, and the Secretary adds:
 While it indicates that the agricul- tural year of 1911 was below par, 1t is far from indicating any degree of ca lamity. If the great cotton crop be taken into account, the total crop pro- duction is below the average in a less degree than the cereals suggest
 i Although sugar making belongs to manufacturing, 1t is asserted that cane and beet production can best be treat l ed through the sugar made from them.
 The Secretary says: 'I am gratif1ed to see that the beet-sugar tonnage reaches the figure of nearly ,600.o00 short tons. It indicates that we can make our sugar." This is the largest amount ever made in this country by about s0,000 tons and is 24 per cent. above the five-year average. The val ue has, of course, scared and amounts to about $90,000. 900, including value of pulp, the highest previous value being
 about $60,000, 900 for 1909. The cane-sugar production of 1911 is estimated to be about 380, 900 short tons
 of raw sugar, Or 1-2 per cent. above
 the f1ve-year average, with value Of
 about: $45, 900 or 5S per cent. over
 the five-year average.
 Both kinds of sugar combined, the
 production equals about S75.000 short
 tons, or about S5,000 tons more than
 the record production of 1909. The
 factory value of this sugar and the ] beet pulp, which is used for feeding } purposes, is about s135, ,000, 900. or about
 $41, ,OOO, 900 more than the record value
 The year 1911 was a poor one for
 record-breaking crops, since the list m
 cludes only cotton and sugar beets Apart from these two crops, not
 crop reaches a place that is next to
 the highest production of former years; corn and rice win third place, and buckwheat third place since the
 sixties; the total of all cereals occu- pies fifth place, and the other crops are farther down the scale.
 The tale Is reversed when the value of the crops are considered. The crops that have won first place make
 a formidable list in spite of the fact
 that they have previous very high val : ues to exceed. The list is corn, barley,
 rye, buckwheat (since the sixties), po- tatoes, hops, faxseed, sugar beets Cor beet sugar), and cane sugar. No
 other crop reached second place in or
 der of value in comparison with other } years, but the total value of all cereals and of all crops did. The crops that reach third place are hay, cotton and l tobacco / Wheat is fourth in value : and has been exceeded in this res pect in three years.
 The crops of sthis year compare with
 the average of the previous five years more favorabl. than they do with single wears when results were highest. } In the list of crops that had pro- ductfon above the f1ve-year average are cotton, rice, buckwheat, beet su- gar, and cane sugar.
 In value of crops the f1ve-year av- ' craze was overtopped by corn, cotton, ] hay, oats, barley, potatoes, buckwheat, ) rye fiaxseed, hops and beet and cane sugar.
 ECONOMIC RESULTS OF COLD
 STORAGE.
 Feeling that there should be more knowledge of the cold storage Of foods,
 the Secretary caused the first inves- tigation of the economic features of cold stora ee to be made during this : year. Information was obtained on 1 schedules filled out by warehousemen. ] It may not be generally understood that cold-storage warehousemen who , do a public business rent space to the owners of commodities; in private } warehouses, such as are owned and us- ] ed by the meat packers, the commo- dities stored are owned by the prop rietors. Many of the warehousemen l made their reports after weeks of la borious efforts, and with very few ex- captions their disposition was to make reports and to give publicity to the re- THE MINERS GET THE