The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-31
Grand Total of Crops, Farm Animals and Farm Ami nal Products Aggregate S9,S72,936.OOO
TOTAL IS SS3,OOO,OOO MORE THAN THAT OF
 THE PREVIOUS YEAR
The Cotton Crop Is Valued at S519,616,000 = Corn Leads List With Value of $1, ,599, ,OOO

Washington. December 3o.--Amerfcsn farm products during 1914 eclipscd all Records for value, with a total of ai- most ten billion dollars. Secretary Houston announced today that the value of all farm crops. farm animal products nnd farm animals sold nnd slaughtered aEEregpted so,s72. .936. .0e0. That wns sss.ooo.0oo more than the grand totnI for 19ta. the previous rec ord year. It wns more than double tho value of all farm products In Iseo.
 Crops this year were valued at s6.oi4- iSo.ooo and farm animal products at S. s2S i56,oOo. The value of crops was slight ly less than in 1913, on account of tho reduced value of cotton. The corn and wheat crops. however were tho most valuable ever produced. They brought the years crop value total to only sSS.- l7aooo less than the total for last year. despite the loss of more than $500. oo.oo in the value of cotton.
 Higher Than in 1913
 
 products of the farm in 19i4.' said tho Agricultural Outlook today, lis distinctly higher than in 1913. which was itself record year in the value of this class of products. This Is due to general but slight increases In production, except for sheep and swine and in prices. moro especially to small increase in the aver age farm price of eggs, and to a moro considerable increase In the farm prico of cattle and eaisas soi,t epd siansss terses.- 1t must be borne in mind that the | amounts 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 tho census, when 1t reached com mercial form. and the grand aggregate of all items is to be regarded as an in- dex number or from relative rather than from an absolute point of view"
 Sales Of crops last year were estimated at S2.92s, GOO; sales of live stock, s2- 9l9 o00,Ooo total of S5,s4I o0O,o00. The esti- mated value of total sales. per farm, was sS92. and sales per capita of rural pop ulation (exeluding towns), $i3e. Principal Crop Values The value of the principal farm crops this year was; Corn. s1.72. .59e0oo: wheat. $S7s, 6S000O; hay. T79, 9,g6S.O00; cotton, S5l9.- 6i6ooo oats lslooo; potatoes. sias.- 609 000; barley s105903,o00; tobacco. s10l,- All 000; sweet potatoes. Sl1. .29i.o00; rye, ST. | 01So00; sugar beets, s27,e5o,Oo0: rice. $21.- S49.00O: flax seed. Sl9.5l0oo0. and buck l wheat, Sl2.S92.O00.
 In the production of these II principal crops the aggregate was about 10 per cent larger than in 1913 and 6 per cent l smaller than in 1912. which year stands as the one of the greatest aggregate pro- duction in the United States This year 1 two important crops exceeded previous records-wheat, with s91.0o0,000 bushels, 1 following the 1913 record of 762000.0o0 bushels; and cotton, with 15,966,00o bales | Cpreiminary estimate), the previous rec i ord being 15,6930o0 bales In 1911. l The value per acre of all enumerated crops averaged about Sl6.3t this year, compared with s1652 in 1913 and sl6.l5 in 1912.