The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-30
YEAR IN
HISTORY OF CROPS
Record of 1913 is $4,000, 900, 900
In Products,
OO,OOO,OOO CASH INCOME.
Long Line of Distributors and Mid
dlemen i'm Position to Take Ad-
vantage of Market.

vantage OF Market.
Washington, Dec. 29.-Ten billion
doiiars' worth of products, five billion
dollars OF cash income-a bumper
year In spite of droughts and other
setbacks-is the 1913 record of six
million American farms.
The United States most successful
year of husbandry produced $6,1OO,-
100000 worth of crops, Of which
S2,S96,OOO, 1000 were represented by
cereals alone; and 1850, 100000
worth OF animals sold and slaugh-
tered and animal products. The value
Of the 1913 crops is twice that of
! 1899; more than $1,000, 900, 900 over
1909 and substantially greater than
lSl2. or all the crops it is esti-
mated that So per cent will remain
on farms and that 20 per cent OF the
animal production also will remain.
On that basis the cash income is esti-
mated at 100000.
PRODUCTION HAS FALLEN.
! Despite record year of crop valu,
although the record of production
has fallen-and the fact that the
number of farms has increased IL
per cent since 1910, until there now
are estimated to be $500. 900 farms
in the country: the department OF
agriculture, in a discussion of the
subject made public today, does not
take the view that a lower cost OF
living will result.
However desirable increased pro-
duction on farms may appear from
the consumers standpoint, il does
not follow that such increased pro-
duction would result i'm any increase
in the cash income per farm or per
capita of farm population, or that
prices paid by consumers would be
any lower" says the report.
Had the local production In 1913
eQualled or exceeded the 1912 pro-
duction it seems probable that the
cash income per farm would not have
been greater and might have been
less than in 1912 but il is extremely
doubtful whether the cost to the con-
sumner would have been less, because
retail prices are raised promptly on
a prospect of under production but
are slow to decline if there is over
production.
"The long line of distributors and
middlemen between the farmer and
the consumer are i'm position to
take advantage of the market and
to certain extent control it.
VOLUME UNDER RECORD.
"
comprised % per cent of the value
of all crops, although the volume was
under the record. Other principal
crops, with values, are given in the
order in which they come. Cotton
S79S, ,0OO.O0O: hay $797. 100000;
wheat-the largest crop ever raised
in this country -$61O, O,OOO,OOO; oats
$40, 100000; potatoes $22S,OOO,-
600; tobacco 100000; barley
500 100000; sweet potatoes SAB
600, 900; sugar beets $24. 900. 900;
Louisiana can sugar $4,000. 900; rye
$26,O0O,OOO: rice $4,000, 900; flax
seed $21 ,0OO,0 900; hops SIS, 100000;
buckwheat 1O,OOO,OOO
"In quantity of estimated pro-
duction the record has been broken
by wheat rye, rice, sugar beets. beet
sugar and the total of beet and cane
sugar. OF the remaining crops, oats,
barley. cotton and nops have been
exceeded twice in production.
The value of the crops of 1913
is high \ new record i'm estimated
value is made by the total of all
cereals, and separately by corn. cot
ton, cottonsccd. tobacco and sugar
beets Only once has there been a
higher estimated value for oats, rye,
rice, potatoes, hay, hops and the total
of beet and cane sugar. Only twice
has the estimated value of wheat and
of beet and cane sugar. Only twice
has the estimated value of wheat and
OF beet sugar been exceeded.
DAIRY products of 1913 are esti-
mated at more than SS14,OOO.OOO.
Eggs and fowls have an estimated
value of more than S57S,OOO, 900.
THE wool production of 1913, esti-
mated at 3O4,OOO,0O0 pounds, was
over $51 100000.
AVERAGE MUCH HIGHER.
THE prices of IA principaI crops
average about 2O.2 per cent higher
than a year ago and 4.6 per cent
higher than two years ago. Their
total values average about 3S per
cent higher than year ago and 10
per cent higher than two years ago.
"The value of agricultural exports
of domestic production i'm the fiscal
year 1913 was 1,123,021,469, an
amount which before has not been
eQualled. The so-called balance Of
trade in agricultural products is in
favor of the exports of domestic farm
products by 1926, 100000.
THE quantity of exports of beef
and its products in 1913 amounted to
964 900, 900 pounds, a quantity that
is exceeded by the average for the
preceding % years and with three ex-
ceptions, by the exports Of each one
of these years.
"The census reports indicate that
in 1909 the total amount of farm
wages paid to farm labor was S651.-
611,287 This is almost double the
cost in 1899. Considerable increases
are indicated since 1909"