Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-16
1915 BEST YEAR
FARMERS EVER
HAVE HAD IN j. s.
Enormous Crop Production and
High Prices Are Brought
Together as Result of Eu-
r0naan War;
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rev NoFhiRa luuRHAL SPECIAL LEAsEn WIEEI
Washington. Dec. Il.-The nation
havests this year have surpassed amy
eyer before recorded The value of
fthe principal farm crops, based on
. prices paid 10 farmers December l.
was announced today by the depart
ment Of agriculture 10 lis final esti-
mate as s5,5GS,7-3.000. making 1915 a
/ banner year both I'm value and i'm pro-
duction of crops
The unusual situation of extraordi-
nary production and high prices.
. probably never before So pronounced.
is credited principally to the Euro
pean war.
Greater Grain Areas.
with the price Of grain soaring as
the war progressed. American farmers
began the season by planting greater
areas 10 grain. The acreage of the
principal crops this year aggregated
approximately 4S6.510 square miles
That is larger than the combined area
of Germany France. Belgium, Hol-
land, Denmark and Switzerland
Corn was planted ON 10S,321,OO0
acres the second largest area ever
planted and the harvest was 3.O54.-
100000 bushels, the second largest
crop ever grown Its value was ST.
,5fS59.0o0 exceeding that Of the pre-
Nious most valuable corn crop 10y
S23 900 600
New Records in Small Grain
New records We're made in pruduc-
ton by wheat oats, barley rye sweet
potatoes, rice ana hay. while tobacco
closely approached fits production rec
ord, 1103415.000 pounds made in
1910. Each of these crops. In addl-
ton, established records MS being the
most valuable over grown. except in
the case of barley and tobacco.
Production of the first billion BUSH F..
els wheat crop and the second three +
billion bushel corn crop were for the 4.
farmers this year.
Wheat acreage aggregated $685. (
600 acres or 5000, 600 more than ever
before The yield was 1913 bushels an
acre, the largest acre yield for win
ter and spring wheat combined ever
in this country. The final
estimate of production was 1,O1l.-i
5O5,000 bushels, with a value Of $3.50, 4
302 900. The crop exceeds last years,
which was record, by more than
l20,000,00Q bushels and by S50,o00,0 GOO
IN value
oats rye potatoes, sweet potatoes
ind tobacco AN were planted ON rcc-
)rG areas. Oats exceeded the record
production by 1912 by 122,0OO, 600
bushels and lis record value Of 1914
BY $56,000,0O0 Barley production was
5000 600 bushels more than the 1912
ecord crop ana was worth $1,000 600
more than the former most valuable
rop grown in 1914 Rice passed tho
ais record by 100000 bushels ana
Is 1912 record value by $1,000, 600.
Other High Figures,
Sweet potatoes exceeded by 10000,
90 bushels the 1870 record and were 1
worth $3,1oO,0oO more than the 1913 J
alue record Hay showed 12,5OO.- I
00-ton increase over the record crop
f 1912 ana was worth $4,000, 600
lore than the value record made last
ear.
Tobacco. while growing on a rec
I'd acreage. was worth $4,000 GOO
ass than IN the record value year
Tho potato crop received perhaps
ne most severe setback of the year
Farmers planted a record acreage =
, potatoes, but the outturu was only !
59,103,oO0 bushels That was G1,- z
10000 bushels below the record year Z