The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1913-12-24
VALUE OF OUR 1914 CROPS
The 1911 Truckee-Carson Project
Crop Report $ Complete and Re-
cords Gains.


values, required by the reclamation
service rules, has been completed
by Water Master S. R. Marean and
his assistants. 1t is extremely fiat
tering in that it shows a substantial
increase for the present year over
last season despite the water short
age of last summer. The figures
for the years 1912 and 1913 are res
pectively s469,SS2 and s555,O07.3O.
These are the sum totals of the seas
onal productions of the farms of this
project.
The reclamation Offices 1913 re-
port, which has been forwarded to
Washington, shows some interesting
approximations among which are
the following:
Alfalfa hay: acres in crop, 49,
$50, tons produced, 5,123, average
yeild per acre, 1928 tons, maxmimum
yield, tons per acre, average value
81 per ton, by which figure the tot
al production is multiplied, giving
value to the 1913 alfalfa crop of
S315,924. The average value per
acre of the seasonal production is
thus s22.61.
Barley: acres in crop, 1880, bushels
raised. 43,2ss, average yield, 23
bushels, value per bushel $780, total
value of crop, s25,941.60, value per
acre, $3.50.
Sugar beets: acres in crop, 1879,
total yield. 946O tons, average per
acre, s.76 tons, maximum yield
per acre, 1876 tons on the G. w.
Likes and F. NJ. Wightman ranches,
value per ton, So, total value of crop
S56,760, average value of yield per
acre, $3.50.
Garden: total crop $50 acres, tot
al value, s1s.779, value per acre
s109.s0.
Hay, except alfalfa. acres in crop
3467, tons 4OO1, average yield per
acre, lis, value per ton 81, total
value of crop, 2s,OO7, average val
ue per acre, $S.05.
Oats. acres in crop, 2S3, total
crop. 1924 bushels, average yield
36.3 bushels per acre, value per
bushel, $40, total value of crop,
$4,109.60, average value per acre
s14.52.
Onions for market: acres in crop
SS, bushels raised, 1926, MAXI
mum yield per acre, 875 blu. by Geo.
Burton, of Northam, value per BUSH
ell, $50, total value of crop, sS,732,
average value per acre, s22a.7S.
Pasture: acres, 1882, value
$S6, ,457, average value per acre,
$1.9S.
Potatoes, common: acres in crop,
416, total yield, 29,7S9 bushels, av-
erage yield per acre, 71.61 bushels,
maximum yield per acre, 700 bush
els on the T. r. Harper ranch, val
ue, SIS per bushel, total crop val
ue, s22, 2,341.75, average value per
acre. $55.70.
Wheat: acres in crop, 1890, pro-
duction 30,271 bushels, average per
acre, 1903 bushels, value per acre,
sS3, value per bushel, SIS, total
crfop value, $25, 5,73O.35, average val
ue per acre, $16.17.
Miseellaneous-new alfalfa: acres
in crop, 1859, value of production,
$11, ,225, value per acre, $2.31.
The amount of land seeded to al
falfa within the project during 1913
is 4523 acres, acres In non-bearing
orchard, 1872.
The total number of farms within
the project is 494, comprising a tot
al irrigable area of 52,039, of which
1905 acres were actually irrigat.
ed. There are 30,S57 acres under
contract for government water
rights and unsettled vested water
rights total 12,21S acres. The tot
al cropped area of farms reported
amounts to 42,943 and the grant
total irrigated last summer was 43,
075.
Mr.. Marean states that the earn
est cooperation of the farmers of tn,
project has been instrumental in re
ducing the cost of the census taking
materially over the figures of las
season and that an admirable spiri
was everywhere encountered.
1t is noteworthy that the suga
beet yield per acre value ranks wei
at the top or $3.50. Onions ar
the most valuable crop here and witt
so much land adapted to onion cul
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Wv. Williams President Thos. Dol
F.P. strassbur