The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1914-01-03
FARM REVENUE
GREATEST EVER
PRODUCTS RAISED DURING 1919
WORTH SIX BILLION
DOLLARS.
CORN IS WORTH S1,926, 1000,
Cotton, Hay, Wheat, Next In Value;
Best Year On Record.-But
Cost Of Living No
Lower.

WdSHinBtOn.-Ien Dillon dollars
worth OF products. $1,000, 100000 OF
cash income-in spite of drouths and
other setbacks-is the 1918 record OF
100000 American farms.
The United States most successful
year OF husbandry produced S6,1OO.
100000 worth of crops of which
$2.S96,000,000 were represented by
cereals alone and $3.50, 100000 worth
OF animals sold and slaughtered and
animal products. The value of the
1913 crops is twice that OF 1899, more
than billion dollars over 1909 and
substantially greater than 1912.
OF all the crops, It is estimated that
So per cent will remain on farms and
that 20 per cent Of the animal produc.
tion also will remain. On that basis
the cash income is estimated at
$5,s47, 100000.
Despite a record year OF crop value
although the record of production
has fallen-and the fact that the mum.
ber of farms has increased IL per cent
since 1910 until there now are esti.
mated to be 100000 farms in the
country. the department OF agricul.
ture in a discussion of the subject
does not take the view that a lower
cost OF living will result.
Corn valued at $1,926,000, 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, $79S, 600. 900; hay, s797, 900;
wheat-the largest crop ever raised
in this country-$610,000 900; oats
s440,000,000; potatoes, $22S,O00, ,0C0;
tobacco, $l22,OO0,O00: barley. s96,OOO.-
600; sweet potatoes, s43 200. 900: sugar
beets. $34.0O0.0O0; Louisiana cane
sugar. $26, 100000; rye, s26,OOO,OOO;
rice, s22,000,000; fax seed, s21, ,000.-
600; hops, s15,o00,0O0; buckwheat.
$10.o00,000
A new high record in estimated
value is made by the total of all
cereals and separately by corn, cot
ton, cotton. seed, 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 sugar been exceeded.
Dairy products OF 1913 are esti.
mated at more than sS14,0O0. 900;
eggs and fowls have an estimated
value Of more than s57S,000,000
'The wool production of 1913, esti-
mated at 100000 pounds, was over
$4,000, 900.
1.-THE prices of IA principal crops
average about 20.2 per cent higher
than year ago and 4 6 per cent high
er than two years ago. Their total
values average about 3.S per cent
higher than a year ago and 10 per
cent higher than two years ago.
The cotton crop now seems to be
established in value as next in order
after corn. The lint of this crop in
1913 at the price of December 1,-had
an estimated value of 1898, ,000, 900, and
this was not equaled in any former
year. 1t 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 13,677.000 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 $945. 100000, an increase
OF 16 per cent 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 36,011 900 acres. it Is
estimated. an increase of per cent
over 1912.