The Colorado statesman., 1916-10-14
COLORADO CROP REPORT
ERTS PLACE VALUE OF
YEARS CROPS AT $50, 1876, ,e1o.
Reports Show Steady Increase In Acre
age-Beets Worth s16,6o5 900;
Apples, $2,4so, 900, and Beans
$1,746,5oo.
-estsrn Newspaper union News service

ernment experts put the estimated
production of Colorado crops for 1916
at total value of sSO.195,91O. This
is an increase of S12, 1920 over 1915,
and $13,069,4S6 over 1914. The report
is published by the Denver Civic As
sociation to demonstrate the expand
ing prosperity of the agricultural Sec
tions of the state and to show that
any falling off in production has been
more than balanced by the increased
prices being realized for the products
of the soil.
1t is shown that for three years
there has been a steady increase in
acreage devoted to crops. The acre
age in 1914 was 2,605,4OO; in 1915,
2,754,S00. and this year, 1861, 900, an
increase in 1916 over 1915 of 06,200
acres.
Notes of the big increases are made
showing that the acreage OF sugar
beets has increased $4,000, the produc-
tion $4,000 tons, and the value $6,-
267,4OO in 1916 over 1915. Beans
gained in acreage 1900. production
$4,000. and value $964,5OO. The po-
tato crop this year will be worth $3,-
792,100 more than last year. The
acreage of wheat increased 10000
and the value $2,4S0,000.
Other crops increasing in value in
clude rye, barley, oats, pears, truck
r1a lot
taloupes, Hay, corn and peaches
showed decrease in value.
The total value of the sugar beet
crop is $16,605,000, as compared with
S10,337,60 in 1915 and $9,6a1,000 in
1914. The acreage, production and
price increased for each year.
Beans went from 21,000 acres in
1914 and 1915 to $4,000 acres in 1916,
the production increasing from 300,-
600 bushels in 1914 to 100000 bushels
in 1915, and 100000 bushels in 1916,
and the price advanced from $3.50 to
$3.50. The total value of the bean
crop in 1916 was $1,746,500, or consid-
erably more than twice the value in
1915.
Apples decreased from 693,00 bar
rels in 1915 to 6S9,000 in 1916. The
total value of this years crop is ST.
100000.
The rye crop of 10000 acres was
392, 900 bushels, at a price of SO cents,
a total value of 1897, ,120.
The total acreage of potatoes is
eyix 0f
over the two preceding years. The
production dropped from 7,150,0O0
bushels in 1914 to 5,S72,O0O in 1916.
and the value was $S,514, 900, as COM
pared with $4,722,300 in 1915.
The acreage in hay was $4,000 in
1914 and 1915 and S92,0 900 in 1916. The
price increased from $40 last year
to 80 this year. and the total value OF
the crop in 1916 is s1s,423.O 900.
The state produced 10000 acres OF
barley in 1915 and 1916 and the pro-
duction this year was 4,10S,000 bush
els. The price advanced 20 cents per
bushel during the year, the total val
ue of the crop being s3.2S6.4 400, as
compared with S2,S08,000 in 1915.
Corn decreased approximately 3,6O0,-
900 bushels, the total production this
year being 7,62S,O0O bushels, and the
total value S5,S73,OOO, as compared
with $7,670,4O0 in 1915.
The acreage in wheat in 1916 was
727,00O, as compared with 100000 in
1915. The production was 10,830,000
bushels. as compared with 13,31O,000
in 1915. The price was $1-27 this
year, as against S2 cents last year.
the total value of the crop is $13,754,-
100, an increase of almost So 900 900.
The pear crop is valued at $430O00,
three times that of 1915. The produc-
ton was $4,000 bushels and the price
was $3.50, as compared with S15O last
year.
The acreage in peaches was 05000
The price was 1 cent less than last
year and the total value of the crop
this year is $571,050.
Other fruits and vegetables were
valued at $1,6S4,000, truck garden
products at $750,000, and kaffir corn
at $764, 400.
The cantaloupe crop was 1,600 cars,
against 800 last year. The price per
car went from 5000 in 1914 to 1920
this year, and the total value of the
1916 crop was $4,000.
Other crops this year were: Cher
ries, $75,000; strawberries, $105,000;
tomatoes, 100000; cabbage, 100000;
onions, 100000; celery. $780, field
peas. 100000; canning peas, $4,000;
cucumbers for seed and pickles, s175.-
900.
State Assumes Care of Insane.
Wednesday the state began to take
oha roo of tho indinant insnno M.