Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1915-01-09
TEN BILLION DOLLARS
IN FARM PRODUCTS
AMERICAN FARMS m 1914 EX-
CEEDEO ALL RECORDS FOR
VALUE OF THEIR PRODUCTS.
ONLY DECREASE IS COTTON
Corn Leads List in Value With Total
of $1,702, 1893, 900. Wheat $e78,6so,-
600. Hay s7ee,o6sooo, Cotton
$519,616,ooO. Oats $49e, 431 900,
Potatoes $685. 900, Etc.

shingtOn.-AmeriCan farms dur
| ing 1914 eclipsed all records for com
| bined value of their products, with a
total of almost 100000 900. Secre-
tary Houston of the department of ag-
riculture announced that the value
Of all farm crops, farm animal prod
ucts and farm animals sold and
slaughtered aggregated S9,S72 1886, 600.
That was $S3.O00,00O more than the
grand total for 1913, the previous rec
ord year. and more than double the
value Of all farm products in 1899.
Crops this year were valued at &c.
044,4SO0O0 and the estimated total
value OF the animal products and of
the farm animals sold and slaughter
ed was $3,S2S,456, 600 The value of
crop production this year was slightly
less than in 1913 on account of the
reduced value of the cotton crop,
brought about principally from the
European war. The corn and wheat
crops, however, were the most valu-
able ever produced in the United
States, bringing the years crop value
total to only $SS,279,00 less than the
total for last year. despite the loss of
more than $3O0,OOO,OGO in the value of
the cotton crops.
THE estimated value of the animal
products in 1914" said the Agricul-
tural Outlook Saturday, sis distinctly
higher than in 1913, which was itself
a record year in the value of this
class of products This is due to gen
eral but slight increases in produc-
tion, except for sheep and swine, and
in prices, more especially to a small
increase in the average farm price OF
eggs and to a more considerable in
crease in the farm price of cattle and
calves sold and slaughtered.
1T must be borne in mind that
of these estimates do not
stand for net wealth produced nor
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 |
grand aggregate of all items is to be |
regarded as an index number of from |
a relative rather than from absolute |
point of view.
THE sales of crops last year were |
estimated at $2,92S,OOO, 900; sales of
live stock, $2,919,OOO, 900; a total of
S5,S47 100000. 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
'rops this year was: Corn, S1,7O2,599.
700; wheat, $S7S,6SO,O0O; hay, S779.-
$4,000; cotton, $519,616,OOO; oats,
'499, $4,000; potatoes, $19S,6O9,OO0;
farley, $105, 100000; tobacco, SOL ALL
100; sweet potatoes, SAL, 294, 900; rye,
37,O1S,000; sugar beets, S27,950, 900;
ice, S21,S49,000; flaxseed, SIS, $40, 900,
nd buckwheat, $12,S92, 900.
In the production of the above four
cen principal crops this years aggre-
ate was about 10 per cent larger
han in 1913 and per cent smaller
han in 1912, which year stands as the
ne of greatest aggregate production
4 the United States. This year two
Important crops exceeded previous
with S91 900 900 bush
Is, following the 1913 record of 763,- ;
10000 bushels, and cotton, with 49,
$4,000 bales preliminary estimated,
lie previous record being 15,693,OO0
ales in 1911. {
THE value per acre of all enum- I
rated crops averaged about $1644 !
lis year, compared with 1882 in 1913
nd Sl615 in 1912" .