The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-04-01
LEADES STATES IN
VALUES PER ACRE
Government Figures Place South
Carolina First, Cover Twelve CrOps


Columbia, S. c., March 2S.-"Very
often we hear 1t stated that if we could |
only get the value of our agricultural
products per acre up to what it is in
the states of the Middle West, South
Carolina would be the greatest state
in the Union" remarked Commissions
or Watson yesterday. "The truth of
the matter is that South Carolina has
a greater value per acre for the ~
leading crops-corn, wheat, oats, bar
ley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes, hay,
ilaXsccd, cotton, rice and tobacco, rep
rcScnting more than 80 per cent of
the total area Of all crops--than any
state in the Middle West, than any 9TH
or state in the South and than any
other state in the Union with the cx-
ception OF Nevada, Arizona, Massachll-
sets, Rhode Island, Now Jersey, Con
nccmtcut, the only six states which
exceed the distinguished little pioneer.
In volume Of agriculture mono Of these
six states could be called an agricul-
tural state, as agricultural states go
today and that being true, when We
consider the volume of production
measured in millions or dollars, the
farm Of 1913, for value per acre of
crops, belongs to South Carolina.
Official Figures.
perhaps, that this would happen, and
hardly believed it myself today,
when | got from Washington these
average values per acre Of the ~
OF the Union. South Carolna's value
per acre is $25.1S, Gcorgia's is only
$20.S0, North Cardinals is very close
up to the Palmetto State with $24.S4,
Virginia's is s2369, and then they tum-
bic. The socalled great agricultural
producing section of the Middle West
runs like this:
"Ohio, 1929; Indiana, $17.2S; llli-
nois, s14S7; Iowa, s17.O1; Missouri,
s,2.29; Michigan, s1G.S3; Wisconsin,
$19.41; Minnesota, $l4.26; North Da-
kota, $S.l5: South Dakota, $9.4S; Ne
braska, $1O.S5; Kansas, 81; Tennessee.
$1S.Ol.
"In the rest of the South not men
toned above it runs this way:
Alabama $40; Mississippi, $19.62;
Louisiana, $l9.05 Texas, $1S.52; Ok
lahoma, $1O.O6; Arkansas, $lS.56.
"In the Far West, with the cxccp-
tions have noted, New Mexico and
Navada the highest figures are $40
and $20.25 in California. Up in the
East the figures are
Maine, s23.72; New Hampshire,
s20.44; Vermont, SCOTS; Massachu-
sets, 1924; Connecticut $3763 New
York, $1933; New Jersey, 5000;
Pennsylvania, $21.34; Delaware $1S.47
"The average for the entire United
States is sl6.3l, which is just exactly
cent more than it was in 1909.
Regional Averages.
at ought to be pretty convincing
also to the people who come down
and look around the South and say
that If the conditions here were like
they are at home what a paradise It
would be- to know that the aver
age value per acre OF these 12 crops
in the South Atlantic States is $22.54,
which is higher than in any other
section of the United States. In the
North Atlantic States It Is $21.0S in
the East North Central States 1t is
$17.07, in the West North Central
States it IS $l1.52, in the South Central
States it is $17.45, and in the far
Western States it is $3.50.
'rhe increases since 1909 show
that the South Atlantic States outstrip
tho entire country. In both the East
and West North Central States there
has been a steady decline, and this is
true Of the North Atlantic States In
other words, these official federal fig
urcs that have just been issued show
beyond all question OF doubt that
Willie nc have only as yet begun to
scratch the surface of our opportu-
mites here in the South Atlantic |
States, agriculturally, these States
are today the leaders in agricultural
production when measured by the
only true yard stick, which is the ac-
tual value Of the crops produced on
each acre OF land cultivated and |