The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-08-17

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value of crops of 1909 was equal to
an average of 1858 per farm, while
the average value of crops per farm
for 1899 was s523.
Value of All Farm Products Not AS
certained.
The census has made no attempt
to ascertain the total net value of
farm products for 1909, including
both that of crops and animal pro-
ducts. Merely to add the value of
these two groups of products to-
gether would involve extensive dupli.
cation, since large quantities of the
crops reported are fed to the animals
on the farms and reported later as
livestock products. 1t is Impossible
to ascertain accurately the amount
of such duplication, and the attempt
to do SO, which was made at the
twelfth census. was not considered
satisfactory. For this reason the
relative importance of crops as a
factor in the agricultural production
of the United States can not De
determined precisely.
increase IN Prices.
A large part of the extraordinary
increase in the total value of farm
crops between 1899 and 1909 is attri,
butable to higher prices. This might
be inferred from the fact that, while
the acreage of crops with acreage re.
ports increased only 80 per cent, the
value Of such crops increased 81
per cent. It also appears by com
pairing the percentages of increase
in the quantity of the various indi-
vidual crops with the percentages OF
increase in the value. Thus, for all
cereals taken together, the produc-
ton increased only IL per cent,
while the value increased 1913 per
cent; for hay and forage the produc-
ton increased % per cent and the
value 70.2 per cent; and for cotton
(not counting cotton seed) the pro-
duction increased Ill per cent and
the value 117.3 per cent.
A more precise calculation of the
average increase In unit values Of
crops has, however, been made by
the Census Bureau.
L
both quantity produced and value
were reported at both censuses, the
average value per unit in 1899 was
computed and this was multiplied in
to the quantity produced In 1909,
thus showing the total value which
would have been reported for each
crop in 1909 il the acreage value per
unit had been the same as ten years
earlier. For certain crops, the val
ues were not reported separately in
1899, and for certain other crops
quantities We're not reported at either
census, but the analysis covers nine
tenths of the crops Of the country as
measured by value.
The total reported value of the
crops covered by the computation in
1899 was s2,691 1919, 900, and the to-
tai reported value of the same crops
in 1909 was $4,934,490, 900, an increase
1899 prevailed, however, the value
of 1913 per cent. Had the prices of
Of these crops In 1909 would have
to $2.962,358,0 900, or an in
crease Of only 10 per cent over 1888.
Z EEL IL q q Inference tWeen So ,962,358.00G
Ind s4,a3t, 400, 600, or $1,972, 49,, 900,
the amount added to the
value of these crops in 1909 by rea-
son of Increase in prices over those
Of 1899, the average percentage OF
in prices being thus $3.50.
Crop Production and Population.
The figure just given, 10 per cent,
rs representing the excess of the.
value Of the crops of 1909, on the
basis Of 1899 values, over the values
If the same crops in 1899, is viz
5ually q consolidated expression of
he general increase in the quantity
If crops produced. Covering, as it
Toes, nine-tenths of the crops OF
she country, it may properly be com
pared with the increase of 81 per
cent in the population of the United
States between 1900 and 1910. An
earlier statement showed that the
Increase in the number Of farms from
1900 to 1910 was 1913 per cent, and
The increase in the rural population
which includes places under $500 in
addition to the agricultural popula-
lion, was 11.2 per cent. the increase
III urban population being 34.8 per
cent. It is only by reason Of a
great reduction In the expectation
Of agricultural products that the in
ereasing consumption of the coun-
Try has been supplied.
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