Evening star., 1914-12-31
OUTPUT Of FARMS
ALMOST TEN BILLION
Value of American Products This
Year Eclipses All Pre-
vious Records.
Department Of Agriculture Reports
the, Total Returns More Than
Doubled Since 1899.

Since 1899 American farmers have
more than doubled the value of their
annual combined farm products. eclips-
ing all records for value of their prod
ucts in 1914. according to the agri-
cultural outlook of the Department OF
Agriculture, made public today. The
value of all farm crops, farm animal
products and farm animals sold and
slaughtered aggregated s9,S72,93G,00
which was sS3.OOo,O00 more than the
grand total for 1913, the previous
record year.
Crops this year were valued at $6.-
044. 4.4s0,000, slightly less than in 1913.
on account of the reduced value of the
cotton crop brought about principally
from the European war. The estimated
total value of the animal products and
Of the farm animals sold and slaugh-
tered was s3,s28,456.oo0, distinctly
higher than in 1913. which was itself
record year in the value of this class
of products.
Corn and Wheat Crop Lead.
The corn and wheat crops were the
most valuable ever produced in the
United States, bringing the years crop
value total to only $ss.27e,o00 less than
the total for last year.
The large value of the animal pro-
ducts is accounted for by the agricul-
tural experts as due to "a general but
slight increase in production, except
for sheep and swine. and in prices,
more especially to a small increase in
the average farm price of eggs, and to
a more considerable increase in the
1arm price of cattle and calves sold and
slaughtered"
How Products Are Valued.
1T must be borne in mind" continues
the Agricultural Outlook. that the
amount of these estimates do not stand
for net wealth produced, nor for cash
received, nor for profit, nor for income
in any sense. Each product is valued
as In the census, when it reached COM
mercial form, and the grand aggregate
Of all items is to be regarded as an in
deX number, or from a relative rather
than from an absolute point of view
The sales of crops last year were
estimated at s2.92s.00O,00O: sales of
livestock, $2.S19.000.000; a total of s5,-
s47.000.000. The estimated Value Of
total sales per farm was 1892, and sales
per capita of rural population (exclud-
ing towns), $139.
Value OF Farm Crops.
The value of the principal farm crops
this year was: Corn, $1,1O2 ,599, 900;
wheat, Ss7S,6s0,OO0; hay, SITS, 9,96S, 900:
cotton, $5l9616O00: oats, s499, ,431, 900:
potatoes. s19s, $4,000; barley, s1o5, ,9o3,-
600: tobacco. $1O1, All 900; sweet pota-
toes, $41 ,294.0oo; rye, S37,O1S,O0O sugar
beets. S27,95O,OO0; rice. S21 $4,000; flax
seed. S19,540.00O, and buckwheat, s12,-
$4,000.
In the production of the above four
teen principal crops this years aggre-
gate was about 10 per cent larger than
in 1913 and per cent smaller than in
1872. which year stands as the one of
the greatest aggregate production in
the United States This year two impor-
tant crops exceeded previous records
wheat, with S91 .OO0,0UO bushels, follow
ing the 1913 record of 7G3,OOU.OO bush
els, and cotton, with 1896. 600 bales
preliminary estimate). the previous
record being 15693.0O0 bales. in 1911
The value per acre of all enumerated
crops averaged about S16.44 this year,
compared with $685. in 1913 and $16.15
in 1912.