The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-17
Than There Used to Be as
Shown by the Federal
Census Bureau.
REVIEW I'M DETAIL
OF the Progress Being Made
Along the Lines Of Ma
tional Agriculture.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE
total value of the crops Of continen-
tai United States in 1909 was, in
round numbers. $5.4S7,OOO,OOO, as
compared with $2,sss,OOO,OOO in 1893
The increase was thus $2,4ss 100000
or etghty7three per cent, according to
a statement issued today by E. Dana
Durand, director Of the Bureau OF
the Census, Department of Commerce
and Labor The tabulations showing
these total results were carried ON in
the agricultural division of the Blu
crops with acreage reports, therefore,
vision Of L. g. Powers. former chief
statistician, and j. L. Coulter, expert
special agent. A. bulletin upon which
this advance statement is based
showing the details of acreage, pro-
ductlon and value Of all crops for the
United States. will be issued at an
early date.
In the case Of some crops (such as
maple sugar and strip and forest
products of farms), It is impossible
to secure disable figure showing
acreage; in certain other cases Csuch
as orchard fruits, grapes. tropical
fruits and nutsl, the number of trees
and vines of bearing and not of hear
ing age is secured in lieu of acreage.
The value of the crops for which re-
ports of acreage were secured
amounted in 1909 to $4,953, 100000, or
nearly nine-tenths of the value of all
crops. At the census of 1900 the
corresponding value was $2,721,O OO,-
OOoi or about the same per cent of
the vald6 Of at crops. The total
acreage of crops with acreage re-
ports in 1909 was 311,293, 600. In
April, 1910, the land in farms in the
United, States was reported by the
census as S7s,79S, 900 acres, Of which
47S,452,O0O acres were improved. The
crops with acreage rports, therefore,
occupied 1854 per cnti of the total
. land in farms and 65.1 per cent of
the total improved land. The asme
crops in 1899 occupied 2S3,21S,OOO
acres, which was 1913 per cent of all
land in farms and 6S.3 per cent of
the improved land. While the total
acreage OF farms Increased 4.S per
cent, the acreage in these crops in
erased SO per cnt between 1899 and
1903 The improved land not occupied
by the crops specified consists chiefly
of land in improved pastures, land
occupied by fruit and nut trees and
vines, for which acreage was not r
ported improved land lying fallow,
and land in. house yards and barn
yards.
sitThe total value of crops in 1909
was equal to $5a66 per capita of the
: population Of the United States, while
{ the value per capita in 1899 was
$39.46 Chased on the population of
: the; Omitted States on April Is, 1910,
and June /, 1900, respectively. There
were 6iS61,502 farms in the United
States in 1910, so that the value of
crops of 1909 was equal to an average
of 1853 per farm, Will the average
value of crops per farm for 1893 was
$528.
Value Of all Products not Ascertained.
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 together
would involve extensive duplication,
since large quantities of the crops
reported are fed to the animals on
the farms and reported later as i've
stock 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 satisfac-
tory. For this reason the relative
Importance of crops as a factor in
the agricultural production of the
United States can not be determined
precisely.
Increase in Prices.
A large part of the extraordinary
incraaso ir a. 4atoI ,,oI,o ~ 70 ~,
crops between 1893 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 SO per cent, the
value Of such crops Increased eighty
two per cent 1t also appears by
comparing the percentages or Increase
in the quantity of the various lndi-
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