White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-25
LARGE INCREASE
IN CROP VALUES
NOTWITHSTANDING THE CON
SUMPTION WOULD HAVE En-
CEEDED SUPPLY But FOR
REDUCTION OF EXPORTS.


was in round numbers, s5,4S7, 000,-
600, as compared with $2,999, 000,-
900 in 1899. The increase was thus
s2,4SS,0o 600, or SO per cent. ae-
eording to a statement Issued by E.
Dana Durand, director of the bureau
of the census department of COM
merce and labor.
The value of the crops for which
reports of acreage were secured
amounted in 1909 to s4%,95S,000,-
600, or nearly nine-tenths of the
value of all crops. At the census of
1900 the corresponding value was
S2,721, 600, 0OO, or about the same
per cent of the value of all crops.
The total aerege of crops with acre
age reports in 1909 was 81. 293, 900.
In April, 1910, the land in farms in
the United States was reported by
the census as S7S.79S,000 acres, of
which 47S,452,000 acres were i'm
proved. The crops with acreage re-
ports. therefore, occupied 35.4 per
cent of the total land in farms and
65.1 per cent of the total improved
land. The same crops in 1899 oe-
eupied 2~S3,21S,O0O acres. which was
33.S per cent of al land in farms and
6S.3 per cent of the improved land.
While the total aerege of farms in
creased Is per cent. the acreage in
these crops increased % per cent
between 1899 and 1909. The i'm
proved land not occupied by the
crops specified consists chiefly OF
land in improved pastures. land oe-
cupied By fruit and nut trees and
vines, for which acreage was not re-
ported, improved land lying fallow.
and in house yards and barnyards.
The total value of crops in 1909
was equal to s59.66 per capita of the
population of the United States,
while the value per capita in 1899
was S39.46 Chased on the popula-
ton of the United States on April
i. 1910. and June !, 1900. respee-
tively.) There were 6,361,502
farms in the United States in 1910.
SO that the value of crops of 1909
was equal to an average CT $500 per
farm. while the average value of
crops per farm of 1899 was $500.
Increase in prices.
A large part of the extraordinary
~incrase in the total value of farm
crops between 1899 and 1909 is at
t%ributable to higher prices. This
might be inferred from the fact that
while the acreage of crops with acre
age reports increased only 80 per
cent, the value of such crops in
creased s. per cent. Thus, for all
cereals taken together the production
increased only II per cent, while the
value increased 79.S per cent; for
hay and forage the production in
creased % per cent and the value
7o.2 per cent; and for cotton mot
counting cotton seed) the production
increased III per sent and the value
117.3 per cent.
The total reported value of crops
covered by the computation in 1899
was 1851, $4,000, an increase of
1913 per cent. Had the prices of 1899
prevailed. however, the value of
these crops in 1909 would have
amounted to s2,962. 1858. 900, or an
increase of only 10 per cent over
1899. The difference between So
962,35S,000 and s4.934,490, 900, or
s1,972,132. 900, represents the
amount added to the value of these
crops in 1909 by reason of increase
in prices over those OF 1899, the
average percentage of increase in
prices being thus 66.6.
Crop Production and Population.
The figures just given. 10 per cent,
: as representing the excess of the
: value of the crops of 1909. on the
2 basis of values, over the values of the
same crops in 1899, is virtually a
consolidated expression of the gener-
al increase in the quallty OF crops
produced. Covering. as it does, nine
tenths of the crops of the country,
. il may properly be compared with
the increase Of p per cent in the
population of the United States be-
! tween 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
fppraaaa in tho rural nonuIatia,