The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-01-07
FARM REVENUE
GREATEST EVER
PRODUCTS RAISED DURING 1918
WORTH SIX BILLION
DOLLARS.
CORN IS WORTH si,s26,O0o,OOO
Cotton, Hay, Wheat, Next In Value;
Best Year On R~ecovd.-sut
Cost Of Living No
Lower.

Washington.-Ten billion dollars
worth OF products. 5 1000. 000. 900 of
cash income-in spite of drouths and
other setbacks-is the 1913 record OF
100000 American farms.
The United States most successful
year OF husbandry produced s6,10O,.
100000 worth Of crops Of which
; 2.S96. 900. 900 were represented by
cereals alone and $3.50. 600, 900 worth
OF animals sold and slaughtered and
animal products. The value OF the
1913 crops is twice that of 1899. more
than a billion dollars over 1909 and
substantially greater than 1912.
OF all b crops, Il Is estimated that
% per cent will remain on farms and
that 20 per cent OF the animal produc.
ton also will remain. On that basis
the cash income Is estimated at
s5.S47. 00O. 600.
Despite a record year OF crop value
although the record Of production
a fallen-and the fact that the mum.
Der OF farms has increased IL per tent
since 1910 until there now are esti.
mated TO be 5000. 900 farms In the
country. the department OF agricul.
ture IN n discussion Of the subject
does noe take the view that a lower
cost OF Ling will result.
Corn valued at 1926. 900. 900 com.
prised 2S 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. 900, 900; hay. $4,000:
wheat-the largest crop ever raised
In this countryside, OO0. 900; oats
s44O,O 0O, 900; potatoes. SECS. 900. oCo;
tobacco, sl22, 900, 900; barley. S96. 900.
600; sweet potatoes, S43, OOO. 900: sugar
beets. $4,000, 900; Louisiana o-"-
sugar, zoe 400 oO0. 80 vauv
.v,yvv,vyv, iye. s26. 600. 900;
rice. s22. 600, OOO: flax seed. s21. 600.
900; hops, $4,000, 900; b%uckwhea,,
&c. 900, 900.
A new high record In estimated
value Is made by the ktal OF all
cereals and separately by corn, cot.
ton. cotton seed. tobacco and sugar
beets. Only once has there been n
higher estimated value for oats. rye.
rice, potatoes. hay. hops and the total
OF beet and cane sugar. Only twice
as the estimated value OF wheat and
OF beet sugar been exceeded.
Dairy products OF 1913 are estl.
mated at more than $Si4,OOO 900:
eggs and fowls have an estimated
value OF more than s57s. 900. 900.
The wool production OF 1913. esti.
mated at 800. OO0, 900 pounds, was over
S5l, 900. 900.
1.-THE prices OF II principal crops
average about zoe per zen higher
h a year ago and 40 per cent high
er than two years age. Their total
values average about 3.S per cent
higher than a year < and 10 per
cent higher than two years ago.
The cotton crop now seems 10 be
established in value as next I'm order
after corn. The lint OF this crop in
1913 at the price OF December I, had
an estimated value OF $79S. 900. 900. and
this was not equaled In any former
year. II Is 1914 cents above the aver.
age OF the preceding five years. The
estimated number OF bales OF 500
pounds gross produced In this
year was l3,677,OO consequently this
crop has been exceeded in quantity
by the crops OF 1911 and 1912. II
cotton seed Is added TO that OF the
lint the total farm value OF this crop
amounts to ss45, 900, 900. an increase
OF l6 per cen over the average OF
the previous FIVE years. Texas usually
produces from one-fourth TO one.third
the cotton crop OF the United States.
The cotton crop OF the United States
in 1913 covered 36.0i1 900 acres. It Is
estimated, an increase OF 8 per cent
v e 1912.