The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-31
BEST FARM YEAR
Total of Agricultural Products
Eclipses Previous Records.
Value Is Estimated at Nearly
$1O,OOO,OOO.

Washington, D. c., Dec 31.-Amerf-
can farms during 1914 eclipsed all rec
ords for combined value of their prod
ucts with a total of almost 81, 900, 600, :
600. Secretary Huston of the depart
ment of agriculture has announced that
the value of all farm crops. farm
animal products and farm animals
sold and slaughtered aggregated So
872, 1886, 900. That was S., OOO, 600 more
than the grand total for 1913 the
previous record year, and more than
double the value of all farm products
in 1899.
044, 100000. and the estimated total
value of the animal products and of
the farm animals sold and slaughtered
was $3.S28, 456. 900. The value Of crop
production this year was slightly less
than in 1913, on account of the re-
duced value OF the cotton crop brought
about principally from the European
war. The corn and wheat crops were
the most valuable ever produced in the
United States, bringing the years crop
value total to only SS,279, 900 less than
the total for last year, despite the loss
of more than $500, 600 900 in the value of
the cotton crop.
The estimated value of the animal
products in 1914 said the agricul-
tural outlook today, SIS distinctly
higher than in 1918. which was itself
record year in the value Of this
eral but slight increases in production.
except for sheep and swine, and in
prices more especially to a small in
crease in the average farm price Of
eggs and to a more considerable in
crease in the farm price Of cattle and
calves sold ard slaughtered.
No Evidenre Of Income.
v,,,,o< 10 bo,b,. vivid %hox &ba
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 the census, when it
reached commercial form. and the
regarded as an index number or from
a relative rather than from an abso-
lutte point OF view"
The sales of crops last year were
estimated at 81 s2S. 100000; sales Of live
stock. g 919 ,OO0, 900; total Of S.. 81, O0O,-
per farm was 1892, and sales per capita
Of rural population Excluding towns).
$139 The value of the principal farm
crops this year was:
Corn. 1.72O, 500 900; wheat $S78. $50 900;
hay s779,06s00O: cotton, $519.s1s. 900;
oats, $499. 431 900: potatoes. s1ss 6os. 600;
barley. sos .903, zoe: tobacco, SOL. All 900;
sweet potatoes. $411 294 600; rye, $37,-
011S.O00; sugar beets. $27 $50. 900; rice.
s21 ,849. 900: flax seed, 81, $40, 900, and
buckwheat. $12, S92, 600.
In the production of the above four
teen principal crops this years ag-
gregate was 10 per cent larger than
in 1913. and per cent smaller than in
1912, which year stands as one of the
greatest aggregate production in the
United States. This year two important
crops exceeded previous records-wheat,
with 891 00O, 900 bushels. following the
1913 record Of 1853. 000. 900 bushels. and
cotton, with 1886, 900 bales (prelim-
mary estimate), the previous record be-
ing Is 693 900 bales in 1911.
The value per acre of all enumerated
crops averaged about 1854 this year.
compared with 1852 in 1913 and SIG Is
in 1912.