The Elbert County tribune., 1917-12-07
CROP OF 21 BILLION
SHOWS RECORD PROSPERITY OF
AMERICAN FARMERS.
Thanksgiving Day Found Horn Of
Plenty Brimming FulI.-corn 10
First on List With Value
Of $4,65e ,ooo, 900.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

aew high record fullness.
Responding faithfully to President
Wilson's appeal and the needs of a
war-torn world, American farmers pro-
duced a gross total of $21,000,00o.-
300 worth of farm products, equaling
In yaleu the nations total expenditure
In one year OF war.
That great total being the value OF
all crops, animals and animal pro-
ducts, was $4,000, 100000 greater than
last years and more than the COM
bined value of any two previous
years. There were record crops OF
corn, oats, rye, white and sweet pota-
toes, tobacco and beans
The principal farm crops will reach
more than $4,000, 100000 in value,
minor crops s2,5o0,o 100000, and ami
mails and animal products, including
butter. cheese and eggs. about s6,50O,-
100000 This years values are based
on preliminary production estimates.
and prices paid to producers Nov. l,
as reported by the Department of Ag-
riculture. An official estimate of the
principal farm crop values will be
made by the Bureau of Crop Estimates
on Dec IL.
Corn, the country's greatest crop,
accounts for about one-third of the In
creased farm products value OF this
year. 1t is estimated at about $4,659,-
100000, compared with s2,296, 100000
last year. s1.723. 100000 in 1915, and
s1,577, 100000 the average fo.- the five
years 1904. In point of quantity
corn this year saw its largest produc-
ton, being 66,000.000 bushels more
than the 1912 record crop, 60S,000,000
bushels more than last year and 459,-
100000 bushels more than the 1904
five-year average.
Next in point of value comes cotton
with a crop valued at about s1,9S1,-
100000, accounting for more than one
tenth of the years total value in
crease. Production this year is about
100000 bales larger than last year and
2,S40,O00 bales smaller than the 1910
IA five-year average.
Hay is the next most valuable crop,
with a total of 1880, 100000, COM
pared with s1.162 10000 last year and
$1,O56.O 100000 in 1915.
Wheat, the fourth crop in point Of
value, is worth more than billion
dollars, for the second time in Amer
lean farming history. Its value is es-
timated at $1.32O.OoO.OOO, compared
with $1,025. .765,0OO last year, $943.-
100000 in 1915 and $6"' $4,000, the
average value of 1904 crops.
No other crop has reached the bill
lion-dollar total. although oats comes
within $25,0O0,000 OF that figure, be-
ing valued at $s75.ooO. 900, compared
with $656.0O0,0O0 last year and the
1904 average of $442. .909, 900.
Potatoes passed the half billion-dol-
lar mark, with total of $562,000. 900,
as compared with SALT ,063.000 last
year, 1921. 1892 900 in 1915 and s213.-
651 900 the 1904 average.
Other important crops show In
creased values. Barley, estimated to
be worth 225.000,000, is more than
double the 1904 average value; rye,
with a value of s95.000,00O, is worth
almost four times as much as its
value averaged for the 1904 crops,
and both buckwheat, with value OF
SIG, 100000, and sweet potatoes, with
a value of $94,000,000, are more than
double the 1910-14 average. F'laxseed
is valued al s29,0oO,O00. and rice at
s33, 100000, both being less than last
year in point of value, because of
smaller production. Tobacco, rec
ord crop, is valued at 249,000, 900,
compared with 100000 last year
and $103,o61. 900. the 1904 average.
Striking increase in value is shown
by the beans, onions, kaffirs and
broom corn crops. all of which more
than doubled last years value. Beans
are estimated at $120,00O.000, COM
pared with $45000.00O last year and
s27,oO0,O00 In 1915; onions at $780,
34i, 900, compared with $9.Ss2.000 last
year and $7.2S1 900 in 1915; kaffirs at
$12S,000,000. compared with $53,269..
900 last year and $51, 1,157.OO0 in 1915,
and broom corn at $13,500,000. COM
pared with s6.54s.oO0 last year and
s4,7s9.000 in 1918.
The peach crop is valued at $685.
100000; pears. $13,500.O00; apples,
$20S. S.S36000; sugar beets, s54.O00,000;
cabbage. s14,000,O00; hops, s12.000.00
and cranberries, s2,400.000.