Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-01-19
VERMONT CROPS VALUABLE.
Ten Staple Products in 1916 Brought
Rethrn Estimated at SS2'o72,soo-
Big Increase in Apple Production.

Inc vermont crop ItpOlb lOi i"i"j III
O publication of the L. s. department
of agriculture, just issued, shows that
$4,000 acres of corn were grown, com
pared with $4,000 in 1919. The yield
per acre was As bushels compared with
46 in 1915. The average yield III the
United States was 24.4 bushels and only
one state in the Union exceeded Yer
mont's yield per acre. The total val
ne of Vermont S corn crop is estimated
at 80, 12S,000.
The area on which oats were raised
was 10000 acres compared with $1,000
acres in 1915. The yield per acre was
80 bushels compared with 40 in 1918.
This yield was surpassed by sixteen
states. The average yield throughout
the country was 30.1 bushels per acre.
The estimated value of the crop i'll tins
state is $l,664,00O.
The area devoted to rye was 1000
acres, the figures for 1915 being the
same. The yield per acre was twenty
bushels compared with II bushels for
1915. Only one state surpassed Yer
mont in the yield per acre and this
state by only half bushel. The aver
age yield for the United States was
1913 bushels. The value of Vermont s
rye crop is estimated at $4,000.
An area of 1000 acres was sown to
spring wheat, the same area given to
this crop in 1915. The yield per acre
was % bushels compafed with thirty
bushels in 1915. Only two states sur
passed Vermont s yield in bushels per
acre. The average yield for the coun-
try at large was SIS bushels, the value
of the crop is estimated at 81 900.
The barley area of Vermont in 1916
was $4,000 acres compared with 10000
in 1915 The yield per acre was 27.5
bushels compared with 80 bushels in
1915. The Vermont yield was surpassed
by II states. The average yield for the
entire country was 23.6 bushels per
acre. The value of Vermont S barley
crop was $4,000.
The area devoted to buckwheat in
this state last year was $1,000 acres
compared with 5000 acres in 1915. The
yield per acre was 17.5 bushels COM
pared with p bushels in 1915. Yer
mont was surpassed in yield by IL
states. The average yield for the
United States was II bushels per acre.
The value Of Vermont S buckwheat
crop was estimated at 100000.
An area of $4,000 acres was devoted
to potato growing in Vermont last year
compared with $4,000 acres in 1915.
This state was surpassed in yield per
acre by IT states The average yield
for the country at large was S0.4 bush
els. The value of the crop is estimated
at 1851, 900. Although the yield per
acre in 1914 was 16S bushels and the
total production for that year was
100000, the total value of that crop,
$l,974,000, was materially less than
this years crop.
In 1916 Vermont s hay growing area
was nearly 100000 acres, $4,000 to
be exact, compared with 100000 acres
in 1915. The yield per acre was 10
tons compared with 1.35 tons in 1915.
Only 10 states surpassed Vermont III
the yield per acre. The average yield
throughout the country was 1.64 tons.
The value of the state S hay crop is
placed at $2O,992, 900. Vermont ranked
| 18th in total production and 18th in the
value of the crops.
The tobacco area of Vermont last
year was 100 acres, the same as the
area Of 1915, The yield per acre was
! 600 pounds compared with 1900
pounds in 1915. Only three states sul
passed Vermont in yield per acre. TN"
average yield for the United States wI-
SIS pounds per acre. The value of Ncr.
mont s tobacco is estimated at 100000.
The apple crop for this state last
year is said to have been l,l04 900 bar
rcls, compared with 324 900 barrels in
1918, or q crop more than three times
as large as that of the previous year.
The quality is said to have been ninety
per cent. No state ranked higher and
only five states, South Dakota, Arizona
| Nevada, Washington and Oregon, had
the same rank. The average price pei
barrel, December !, was $40 cents
The average price in Oregon was $3.50
that of Washington $40, while it
should be remembered that those far
western states are obliged to ship THEN
apples nearly 5000 miles farther than
Vermont. The value of Vermont 5
crop, using the number Of barrels given
and the average price per barrel, i
I, $2,9S0,S00, compared with $9l3,GS0 IN
1918. 1t will be seen that the value
of the 1916 crop exceeded the value OF
the crop of the previous year by moro
than $2,000,000. Oregon s output thi,
year was 1,2S5,000 barrels and the val
ne of the crop was $3,27G,150. Wash
ington output was 5000 barrel,
this year and the value Of the croI
was $7,740,000. 1t will be seen thai
Vermont ranked close to Oregon boil
i'll total number of barrels produced anc
total value of crop, while that of Wash
ingtOn was q little more than twice
the yield and value of Vermont S crop
The. total value of ten staple CROP
i'll Vermont, corn, oats, rye, spring
wheat, barley buckwhcat, potatoes
hay, tobacco and apples was $50, O72,
500. The total value of Vermont :
crops in 1915 was 27,6l1,GS0. Tn,
total value of Vermont S crops in 19l.
was 25,3l6,250.
The last available figures for the pro
duction of gold and silver in this coun
try are for the year 1915. Vermont
hay crop last year was almost as val
liable as California IS gold output fo
1915 which was $22, 547 400. The tota
value of Vermont S crops for 1911
amounted to nearly as much as the val
ne of the total output of silver pro
duced in the United States and Alask
for 1915, which was $37, 1897 800.
j. G.. ESTEY DIRECTOR.