The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-01-08
AMERICAN FARMS
ECLIPSE RECORDS
Total Output in 1914 Nearly
Ten Billions.
Decrease in Price of Eggs and In
crease in Cattle and Calues
Contribute to Result.

Washington, D. C.-American farms
during 1914 eclipsed all records for
combined value of their products with
total of almost $40, 600, 900.
Secretary Houston, of the department
of Agriculture, announced Thursday
that the value of all farm crops, farm
animal products and farm animals sold
and slaughtered aggregated $9,872,-
936, 900.
That was $s3, 900, 900 more than the
grand total for 1918, the previous
record year, and more than double the
value of all farm products in 1899.
Crops this year were valued at &c.
044, 480, 900, and the estimated total
value of the animal products and of
the farm animals sold and slaughtered
was So, 1928, 456, 900. The value Of
crop production this year was slightly
less than in 1918 on account of the re-
duced value of the cotton crop. brought
about principally by the European war.
The corn and wheat crops, however,
were the most valuable ever produced
in the United States, bringing the
years crop value total to only $685.
279, 900 less than the total for last
year, despite the loss Of more than
$500, 900, 900 in the value of the cotton
crop.
"The estimated value of the animal
products on the farm in 1884,, said
the Agricultural Outlook, ''is distinct
ly higher than in 1918, 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, and
more especially to small increase in
the average farm price Of eggs and to
q more considerable increase in the
farm price Of cattle and calves sold
and slaughtered.
''It must be borne in mind that the
amounts of these estimates do not
stand for net wealth produced, nor for
cash receipts, nor for profit, nor for
income in any sense. Each product is
valued, is in the census, when it
reached commercial form and the
grand aggregate of all items is to be
regarded as an index number, or from
a relative rather than from an absolute
point of view"
The sales of crops last year were
estimated at $2,928, 600, 900; sales of
livestock $2,919, 900, 900, a total of
SIS, 1897, ,000,0 900. The estimated value
of total sales per farm was 1892, and
sales per capita of rural population,
excluding towns, s139.
The value of the principal farm
crops this year was:
Corn, 81, 702, 500, 900; wheat, 1878,
$4,000; hay, SITS, ,06s, 900; cotton,
s519, ,616, 900; oats, s499, 413, 900; po-
tatoes, $198, 500, 600; barley, $685.
903, 900; tobacco, SOL, ALL, 900; sweet
potatoes, SAL, ,294, 600; rye, $37, 7,01S,-
GOO; sugar beets, s27,950, 900; rice,
S21, ,849, 900; fiaxseed, $19, $40, 900,
and buckwheat, $12, 1892, 900.
In the production Of the foregoing
IA principal crops, this years average
was about 10 per cent larger than in
1918, and per cent smaller than 1912,
which year stands as one of the great
est aggregate productions in the
United States. This year two import
ant crops exceeded previous records
wheat, with 89l, 900, 900 bushels, fol-
lowing the 1918 record of 763. 000, 600
bushels, and cotton, with 1886, 600
bales preliminary estimate), the pre-