The Monte Vista journal., 1917-12-29
ALL CROPS, $l4O,OOO,OOO
Altogether $45O,OOO,OOO Added To
Nations Wealth During
The Year.
prepared by the Colorado State
Board of immigration

Board of immigration.
Colorado is doing her full part by
the nation in the hour of need From
her men and money she has contrib
uted literally to the fighting strength
of the country, supplying more than
10000 men for active service in the
various branches of the military and
naval forces, subscribing to 100000
900 of Liberty Loan bonds, contrib
utng $1,000,O00 to the great Red
Cross fund and over-subscribing her
allotment in the Y. NJ. C. A. cam
paign. There is no particular in
which any citizen of the Centennial
state need feel that Colorado has
failed to stand nobly by the govern
ment.
But is is not only with men and
money that the people of Colorado
have contributed to the success of
American arms on foreign battle
fields. At moment when the cry of
the entire nation has been for in
creased production in every line of
industry; when every farmer, every
miner and every manufacturer ha.
been urged to increase his output
and extend his operations to the lin
it of his ability, Colorado has added
TO the wealth of the nation no less
than $3.50, 1000, 0,0OO-an increase
over previous records which far ex-
ceeds the average increase of praduc-
ton for the United States as whole.
In this respect Colorado has done
more than her part.
Farm Crops worth $40, 100000
In no department of industry has
The increase been greater or more
marked than in the field of agricul-
lural Development The crop produc-
lion Of 1916 was considered a record
breaker in point of total value, but it
amounted to less than 65 per cent of
Inc total for 1917. which, including
larm and orchard products, will be
no less than $40, 100000. With the
exception of very few states in the
Aeart OF the corn belt in the Missis-
Sippl valley, no state in the Union
Aas shown such a marked increase
over 1916, and even the corn states
would have been left far behind had
not been for the increase of al
uos' lOO per cent in the price paid
,V' 'hat product. Increase in pro-
uuctlon in those localities was sub
Sahtlal, but the price advance was
enormous. The average increase of
uop values throughout the United
states was 30 per cent, but Colorado
Increased her 1916 total by more
'han SO per cent.
nay Proves Largest Crop
HAY easily ranks first among tbe
uops of Colorado, both from the
'.ahupoint of value and of acreage,
Aore than one-fourth of the cult
a., ~ 'hS otdlt is utNOItu TO
.'s crop, the acreage for 1917 being
'V'oVO' including cultivated hay
ups ohly--such as alfalfa, timothy,
"''Ae' sweet clover and few other
a.'eties. In addition to the 97O,-
acres devoted to cultivated hay,
u''y 10000 acres produced what is
V"h as wild hay, including salt or
.1'le grass, bluestem and a wide
"ee OF native grasses. Park.
""u' jackson, Gunnison and Routt
Dun'leS are among the largest pro-
'DuerS of this variety of grass.
,"e total production of all kinds
nay IN the state for 1917 is esti-
,su 'u at 2,691,00O tons, by far the
e'' nay crop in the states his
ana worth, at prevailing prices,
A. 'eSS than $42, ,OOO-more than
M "heat and beet crops combined
N" /" comprising about 35 per cent of
n.y. asricultural output of the state
of the year.
"'e's' corn, potatoes and beans, in