, 1917-12-06
CROP OF Il BILLION
SHOWS RECORD PROSPERITY OF
AMERICAN FARMERS.
Thanksgiving Day Found Horn OF
Plenty Brimmins Full.-corn Is
First on List With Value
of $4,65e,ooo,oo

| western Nt"Hpdbti SHh'h
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
war-torn world, American farmers pro-
duced a gross total of $21, 0O,O0O,'
900 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 So 500, 900, 600 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 h $12,O 0 900, 900 in value,
minor crops $500, 000, 900, and ami
mails and animal products. including
butter, cheese and eggs, about S6,5OO,-
OOO, 900. 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 S4,659,-
| OOO, 900, compared with 2 1896, O0O, 900
last year., SLIPS, 600, 900 in 1915, and
$ ,577, O00, 900 the average for the five
years 1904. In point of quantity
corn this year saw its largest produc-
ton, being 66,0O0,O 900 bushels more
bushels more than last year and 49,
OOO, 900 bushels more than the 1904
five-year average.
Next in point of value comes cotton
with a crop valued at about S1,9S1,-
O00, 900, accounting for more h a one
tenth of the years total value in.
crease. Production this year is about
GOO, 900 bales larger than last year and
2,S4O,OO O bales smaller than the 1910
IA five-year average.
Hay is the next most valuable crop,
with a total of 1880, 900, 600, COM
pared with Sligo, 600, 900 last year and
81, O56, 900 900 in 1915.
Wheat, the fourth crop in point Of
value. is worth more han a billion
dollars, for the second time in Amer.
lean farming history. Its value is es-
timated at 1920 900, 900, compared
with 81, 25,765,OO last year., s943,.
| ono mn l.. 1o1r o-l orc nOa mn fba
average value Of 1904 crops
No other crop has reached the bill.
l%ion-dollar total, although oats comes
within s25, 900, 900 of that figure, be.
ing valued at $4,000, 900, compared
with $3.50, 000, 900 last year and the
1904 average of SAP, 909 600.
Potatoes passed the half billion-dol.
lar mark, with a total of $500, OO0, 900,
as compared with $417, O63, 900 last
year, 1921, 1892, 0G0 in 1915 and $213,.
651, 900 the 1904 average.
Other important crops show in
creased values. Barley, estimated to
be worth 1925, 000, 900, is more than
double the 1904 average value; rye,
with a value of $95, 900 900, is worth
almost four times as much as its
value averaged for the 1904 crops,
and both buckwheat, with a value Of
$26, 00O, 900, and sweet potatoes, with
a value of 1894, 0 1000, are more than
double the 1904 average. Flaxseed
is valued at $29, 900, 900, and rice at
1913, 0O0, 900, both being less than last
year in point of value. because of
smaller production. Tobacco, a rec
ord crop, is valued at $249, 900, 900,
compared with $4,000 900 last year
and $1O3, 061 900, 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 $12O, 900, 900, com.
pared with $45, 900, 900 last year and
$27, 100000 in 1915; onions at 3d.
341 900, compared with $9,SS2, 900 last
year and $7,2S1, 900 in 1915; kaffirs at
$12S, 00O, 900, compared with $50, 269,.
900 last year II $51, 157 900 in 1915,
and broom corn at $13, 500, 900, com
pared with $6,549,000 last year and
$4,7S9,000 in 1915.
The peach crop is valued at $685.
100000; pears, $13, 800, 900; apples,
$20s. $4,000; sugar beets, 1900, 900;
cabbage, $14 ,00O, 900; hops, $12, 900, 900,
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