The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-01-30
VERMONTS POSITION
IN FARM PRODUCTS
Per Acreage Yield Shows That State
Stands Well to Front in the En-
tire Country.

The latest bulletin of the United
States department of agriculture gives
the estimates of crop yields and prices
for 1918 based on reports from five indie.
pendent sources of information, making
this altogether the most accurate crop
report issued. The figures for Vermont
are as follows: In the matter of corn,
Vermont ranks ninth in yield of bushels
per acre, with an average yield of 81
bushels, compared with an average of
23.l bushels for the United States. Only
one of the great corn growing states
of the Union exceeds this yield. The
Vermont price per bushel Dec. | was 81
cents while the average price for the
entire country was 69.l cents.
The value of Vermont's hay crop in
1913 was SlS,560,000. Only III states in
the Union surpassed the little state of
Vermont in the value of this crop, and
those states were New York, Pennsyi-
vania, Ohio, Illinois. Indiana. Wisconsin,
Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Washington,
and California. Only Is states raised
more tons of hay than Vermont, al
though this state ranks AID in area.
Only four states raised more bushels
of spring wheat per acre than Vermont
and taking spring and winter wheat to-
gether only five states exceeded YER
mont's yield per acre, which was 24.5
bushels. The United States average Tor
spring wheat was IL bushels per acre.
The average yield of the great wheat
growing states was as follows: North
Dakota, l0.5; South Dakota, nine bush
els; Minnesota, 1872 bushels; Washing
ton, 10 bushels. The Dakotas are BY
far the greatest of the spring wheat
states and vermont's yield is more than
twice as large.
Vermont ranked ninth in yield OF bush
els of oats per acre, the average being
30 bushels compared with an average OF
292 bushels for the United States. Yer
mont's average price Dec. was - cents
and the average for the whole country,
1912 cents.
Vermont ranked ninth in bushels OF
potatoes per acre with an average of 127
bushels compared with 9O.4 for the
United States. The price Dec. was n
cents, compared with 6s.7 cents TO: the
entire country
Only one state raised more pounds Of
tobacco per acre than Vermont
Only six states raised more bushels OF
barley per acre than Vermont. The yield
in this state was 80 bushels, which vas
Just four times the yield OF Kansas |
The average yield for the United States
was 23s bushels. Only two states re-
ported higher price. The Vermont |
average was so cents and that for the |
United States, 53.7 ceats.
Vermont ranked ninth in bushels of
rye per acre with yield OF Is bushels.
with an average of 1872 bushcls |
for the whole country. The Vermont |
price was 90 cents and that for the |
United States. 63.4 aents.
Vermont ranked third in bushels Of |
buckwheat per acre, WITH 4 Weld of 25 |
bushels, compared with yield OF l7.2 |
bushels for the United States. The Yer |
mont price was so cents and that Tor
.he whole country, 75.5scents. Only four
states reported higher price.
The mortality statistics for 1912 have
ust been issued by Tie director of the
United states census. in Il table show
ng the standardized death rates per
900 of population for registration
tates. This registration area comprises
nearly two-thirds of the total estimated
population of the United States foe
I9l2, and only four states, Minnesota,
Montana, Utah and Washington, show
/ lower death rate than Vermont.