Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-02-16
Farm CROP VALUES FOR 1915
. ESTIMATED AT SIS, AS, OOO, 600

BY far the largest gross value Of farm production this
COUNTRY reached in 1916 according estimates made by
the United States Department oAgrcuure The total Of
crops and animal products increase of
1854 100000 the total of 1915 which itself high
water mark The increase greater than the
value of farm production in 1899 and nearly large
the crop production in 1899 The increase of 1916
1914 100000 The gross value of farm produc
ton is the total of crops and animal products and takes
count of the of the product material for other pruc
on any costs of production subtacted Consequent
the value of gross production should be regarded index
number and not many net dollars put into the farmers
pocket.
been determined and cannot be estimated The items for
the estimated years expressed gross value and made
conform with the plan to be comparable with
those for the census years.
If the gross value of the farm production of 1899
represented by O0 the value for 1879 469 for 1885, 2
for 1902 1914 for 1914 2O for 1915 22S and for 1916
1851.
In the subdivision of the value gross production into
main elements crops and animal products it appears
that the total estimated crop value in 1916 So 100000
greater than the of the estimated crops Of
ma products for previous to 1872 greater than the
total estimated value Of 1917 by and Of 1914
by So, 999O00O00.
The estimated value of animal products for 1916
100000 than double the value for 1904, which
the highest amount at that time 1t greater than the
estimated value of animal products 1915 by $47OOO0O and
of 1914 by 1856, 100000
Compared with the value of farm crops in 1899 represent
ed by O the crop value for 1909 1885, for 1914 29
915 $685. and for 1916 3O38 similar comparison for ami
NAL products results percentage of 1857 for 1909 2202
for 1915 225.1 for 1915; and 1928 for 1916.
The crop value for 1916 increased that of 1899 by
2O3 per nof 1909 by &c cent Of 1914 by 40 cent and
of 1915 by per cent The value of animal products ncreas
ed 1916 1899 by 1925 per cent 1909 by Alb per
1914 by 4 per cent and 1915 by 1872 per cent
From 1908 to 1914 the total crop value fraction of the
value Of the total gross farm production declined GAG per cent
618 per cent In 1915 the contrary this tendency
only arrested but sharply reversed and the crop value
6 per of the total of crops and animals pro-
ducts followed by another sharp advance to 6 per cent in
1916.
Four crops have each exceeded billion dollars in value at
the farm in 1916 The estimate for So 000O00 cot
ton lint based weight 28O0OOO; cotton crop in
Guiding lint and seed $406000O00 hay tame and Wild 81
62OOO0O wheat $O26O00O00 Other crops that each
exceed hundred million dollars OATS 1856 O00O0 potaos
100000; farm wood lot products 1921 100000; apples
$186OO0O00; tobacco, $69000000; barley $16000OO0O
The level of prices paid to producers for the principal
crops December 1916 about $50 per cent higher than
prevou 529 per cent higher than two before and
higher than the average theeght years previous
to December The year 1916 of comparatively low
crop production but the prices and values of most of the
were extraordinarily high.