The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1916-10-12
COLORADO CROP REPORT
6 X p E r S PLACE VALUE OF
YEARS CROPS AT $50, 195,e1O.
Reports Show Steady Increase in Acre
aGe-Beets Worth S16,605, 900:
Apples, S2,4SO,O 900, and Beans
SI,7l6,5 500.

Western %cwspupcr Union News Service.
Dcnver.-Figuros compiled by gov.
eminent experts put the estimated
production of Colorado crops for 1916
at total value OF $SOlg5.glU. This
is an increase of l2,ll&,9lU over 1915.
and $l3,OG9,iS6 over 1914. The report
is published by the Denver civic As.
sociation to demonstrate the expand
ing prosperity of the agricultural sec
tons OF the state and to show that
any falling off in production has been
more than balanced by the increased
prices being realized Tor the products
OF the soil.
1t is shown that for three years
there has been steady increase in
acreage devoted to crops. The acre
age in 1914 was 2,6u5,4oO; in 1915,
increase in 1916 over 1918 OF 2OG, 200
acres.
Notes of the bis increases are made
showing that the acreage OF sugar
hcets has increased Gi,2OO, the produC.
ton $4,000 tons, and the value So,
2G7, 400 in 1916 over 1915. Beans
gained in acreage 1000, production
$4,000, and value 1901, 800. The pc.
tato crop this year will be worth So.
1872, 100 more than last year. The
acreage OF wheat increased 10000
and the value S2,iSO,OOO.
Other crops increasing in value in.
c!ude rye, barley, oats, pears, truck
garden products, kafIir corn and can.
taloupes. Hay, corn and peaches
showed decrease in value.
The total value OF the sugar beet
crop is slG,GO5.OOO, as compared with
S10,337,GOO in 1915 and $9,G9l,00O in
1914. The acreage, production and
price increased for each year.
Beans went from 2l,OO0 acres in
1914 and 1918 to $4,000 acres in 1916.
the production increasing from 3OO.'
900 bushels in 1914 to 100000 bushels
and the price advanced from $3.50 to
$3.50 The total value of the bean
crop in 1916 was Sl,1iG, 500. or consid'
crably more than twice the value in
1915.
Apples decreased from Cos, 900 bar
rels in 1918 to $4,000 in 1916. The
total value of this years crop Is 81,
100000.
The rye crop OF 10000 acres was
$4,000 bushels, at a price OF Sc cents
total value Of 1881, l2O.
The total acreage of potatoes it
given as 10000, a decrease OF 300,
over the two preceding years. Tn,
production dropped from 7ljOOO,
bushels in 1914 TO 5.S7200O in 1916
and the value was $S.5li,000. as com
pared with si,722.3Oo in 1918.
The acreage in hay was 10000 in
1914 and 1915 and S92 900 In 1916 Tn,
price increased from $40 last ycal
to 80 this year, and the total value OF
the crop in 1916 is slS,i23,OUO
The stat" produced 10000 acres o.
barley in 1915 and 1916 and tn" pro
ducilon this year was i,l0S,ooo bush
els. The pric" advanced 20 cents pei
h"Sh.I during me year me 'o'nl val
Il" OF III, crop Dong S"'-H''t"", ~
compared Win S-'""H''oo III 1919.
Corn decreased approximately $500
4.
WV ousi'''S' 'i,' 'o'"' P'""u'''"'' '','s
YEA p'i''E ''.-''o"" o"H'''''' an" Wv
'o,H' .hlu' '.."'o' as compared
WIN E'''''''"" III '''''
Th" acr"ag" IN wheat in 1916 wan
'o,.,'', "' '"''' "''" WIN '''''o' III
l'''. '"' P'o""'''"h was l",n""''"'
n"Hh''S' as compared WIN I"."I"'""
III IVA. I"' price was SI.-' ihi.
year "N "fn'i'S' - '''''S I''S, year
inc '"'al N"'"' OF 'n' crop u $I''''''.
I'"' an increase Oh "''''""' $"''"''".'