The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-01-13
REGULAR FARM YIELD OF 1913
WORTH So, 1OO,OOO,OOO. LIVE
STOCK $3,65O, 100000.
RECORD VALUES IS BROKEN
Total Output of the Year Is Smaller
Than on Previous Occasions, But
the Value to the Producers Is the
LARGEST Ever Known.

the Value to the Producers is inc
Largest Ever Known.
WASHINGTON.-Ten billion dol
lars worth of products, $5,OOo,OOo'-
600 of cash income-a bumper year
in spite of drouths and other set
backs-is the 1913 record of $780,
600 American farms.
The United States most success
ful year of husbandry produced So
100 0OO. 900 worth of crops, OF which
S2.896. 100000 was represented by
cereals alone, and $1,000, 100000
worth of animals sold, and slaughter
ed animal products. The value OF
the 1918 crops is twice that OF 1899;
more than $1,000 200 over 1909,
and substantially greater than 1872.
OF all the crops, it is estimated
that so per cent will remain on farms
and that 50 per cent of the animals
also will remain. On that basis the
cash income is estimated at $5,847,-
100000.
DESPITE a record year of crop val
ue-although the record of produc-
ton has fallen-and the fact that the
number of farms has increased II
per cent since 1910 until there now
are estimated to be 100000 farms
in the country, the department OF
agriculture, in a discussion of the
subject made public today does not
take the view that a lower cost of
living will result.
III. C. of l.. Remains Uninjured.
However, desirable increased pro-
duction on farms may appear to be
from the consumers standpoint it
does not follow that such increased
production would result in any in
crease in the cash income per farm
or per capita of farm population, or
that prices paid by consumers would
be any lower" says the report.
Had the total production in 1913
equaled or exceeded the 1912 produc-
ton it seems probable that the cash
income per farm would not have been
greater and might have been less
than in 1912, but it is extremely
doubtful whether the cost to the con-
sumers would have been less because
retail prices are raised promptly on
prospect of under-production, but are
slow to decline if there is over-pro-
duction.
"If the long line of distributors
and middlemen between the farmer
and the consumer are in a position
to take advantage of the market to
a certain extent they control the
market.
Middlemen Pocket Profits.
THE high prices paid by consum-
ers, ranging from to nearly 500
per cent, in some cases, more than
the farmer receives, indicate that
there is plenty of room for lower ng
the cost of farm products to consum-
ers and at the same time largely in
creasing the cash income per farm
This condition undoubtedly is a
marketing problem which will have
to be solved by better organization
of farmers and improved methods of
marketing
Corn, valued at 1892, 100000,
comprised % 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 which they come:
Cotton, $798. 100000; hay, $751;
100000: wheat-the largest crop ev-
err raised in this country-$610,O OO,-
900; oats, $440,OO0,O 900; potatoes,
$228,OO0,OO0; tobacco, $122,0OO,-
600; barley, 100000; sweet po-
tatoes, $43.OOO,OOO; sugar beets,
.$26. 1000, 900; rye, $26,OOO,0o0; rice,
$4,000, 900; flaxseed, $21,0OO,OOO;
hops, SIS, O0O, 900; buckwheat, $1o,-
100000
Yields Break Many Records.
In quantity of estimated produc-
tion the record has been broken by
wheat. rye, rice, sugar beets, beet
sugar and the total of beet and cane
sugar" the department says. vi
the remaining crops oats, barley, cot
ton and hops have been exceeded
twice in production.
1.-THE value of the crops OF 1913
is high. A new high record in estl-
mated value is made by the total OF
all cereals and separately by corn
cotton, cotton ceed, tobacco and SUI
gar beets.
"Only once has there been higher
estimated value for oats, rye, rice
potatoes, hay, hops, and the total OF
beet and sugar cane, and only twice
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