Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-12-07
CROP OF Fl BILLION
SHOWS RECORD PROSPERITY OF
AMERICAN FARMERS.
Thanksgiving Day Found Horn Of
Plenty 5rlmming Full.-corn 10
First on List with Value
Of 4,65s,ooo,ooo
western Newspaper Union News Service

Washington. - Thanksgiving Day
found Americas horn of plenty with
new high record fullness.
Responding faithfully to President
Wilson's appeal and the needs of a
w~ar-torn world, American farmers pro
duced a gross total of 100000
900 worth Of farm products, equaling
in valeu 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, 900, 900 greater than
last years and nor than the com
bined value of any two previous
years. There we're record crops of
corn, oats, rye, white and sweet pota-
toes, tobacco and beans.
The principal farm crops will reach
more than $12,O 900, 900, 900 in value,
minor crops $4,000, 900, 900, and AMI
mails and animal products, including
butter, cheese and eggs, about s6,5OO,-
000,0 600. This years values are based
on preliminary production estimates,
and prices paid to producers Nov. 1,
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 $685.
100000, compared with $2,296, 000, 900
last year, $1,723, 0O0, 900 in 1915, and
$1,577, 100000 the average for the five
years 1904. In point Of quantity
cOrn this year saw its largest produc.
ton, being 66,000,0 900 bushels more
than the 1912 record crop, COS, 900, 600
bushels more than last year and 459,.
100000 bushels more than the 1910-14
five-year average.
Next in point of value m cotton
with a crop valued at about 81, 1881.
000, 1000, accounting for more than one
tenth of the years total value in
crease. Production this year is about
600, 900 bales larger than last year and
2,840,0 900 bales smaller than the 1910.
IA five-year average.
Hay is the next most valuable crop,
with a total of $780, O0, 900, COM
pared with Sligo, 900, 900 last year and
81, O56, 900, 900 in 1915.
Wheat, the fourth crop in point of
value, is worth more than a billion
dollars, for the second time in Amer
lean farming history. It's value is es-
timated at 1890. OOO, 900, compared
with s 1925, 100000 last year, $943,-
300, 900 in 1915 and $6"N, $4,000, the
average value of 1904 crops.
No other crop has reached the bill
lion-dollar total, although oats comes
within $4,000, 900 of that figure, be-
ing valued at $975.O0 900, compared
with 1855, 100000 last year and the
1904 average of $442, 909, 900.
Potatoes passed the half billion-dol-
lar mark, with a total of 1852, 000, 900,
compared with $417, O63, 900 last
year, 1921, 1892, 900 in 1915 and $213,-
$1,000 the 1904 average.
Other important crops show in
creased values. Barley, estimated to
be worth 1925, 0O0, 900, is more than
double the 1904 average value; rye,
with a value of $685. OO, 900, is worth
almost four times as much as its
value averaged for the 1904 crops,
and both buckwheat, with a value of
$26, 900 900, and sweet potatoes, with
a value of $4,000, 900, are more than
double the 1904 average. Flaxseed
is valued at $29. 900 200, and rice at
$33, 900 1000, both being less than last
year in point OF value, because OF
smaller production. Tobacco, a rec.
ord crop, is valued at S249, 900, 900,
compared with $169, 10000 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 $4,000 900, com.
pared with $45, 900, 900 last year and
S27, O00, 900 in 1915; onions at 3d.
BAL, 900, compared with $9.SS2,OOO last
year and $7,2s1.O 900 in 1915; kaffirs at
1928, 000, 900, compared with $53,269,.
BOO last year and $51,15IOOO in 1915,
and broom corn at $13, 500, 900. com
pared with $6,549, 900 last year and
I4,7S9, 900 in 1915.
The peach crop is valued at $685.
500, 900; pears, $13,5OO, 900; apples,
1908, $50, 5000; sugar beets, $4,000, 900;
cabbage, $14, 10000; hops, $12, 000,0 00,
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