Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-31
VERMONT CROPS VALUABLE.
Hay Crop Alone Almost Equals Cali
fOrnia's Gold Output.

The Vermont crop report for 1916
in publication of the u. S. depart
ment of agriculture just issued, shows
the area on which oats were raised
was 10000 acres compared with 3D.
900 acres in 1915. The yield per acre
wac 80 bushels compared with 43 in
1915. This yield was surpassed by
16 states. The average yield through
out the country was 30.1 bushels per
acre. The estimate value of the crop
in this state is $780,, 900.
The barley area of Vermont in 1916
was $4,000 acres compared with 12,-
900 in 1915. The yield per acre was
27.5 bushels compared with 35 bushels
in 1915. The Vermont yield was sur
passed by II states. The average
yield for the entire country was 23.6
bushels per acre. The value of Yer
mont's barley crop was $4,000.
An area of $4,000 acres was de-
voted to potato growing in Vermont
last year compared with $4,000 acres
in 1915. The state was surpassed in
yield per acre by IA states. The av-
erage yield for the country at large
was 8O.4 bushels The value of the
crop is estimated at 1851 900. AL
1853 bushels and the total production
for that year was 100000, the total
value of that crop, $1,974,OOO, was
materially less than this years crop.
In 1916 Vermont's hay growing
area was nearly 100000 acres, $780,
900 to be exact, compared with &c.
900 in 1915. The yield per acre was
ITO tons compared with 1.35 tons in
1915. Only 13 states surpassed Yer
mont in the yield per acre. The av-
erage yield throughout the country
was 164 tons. The value of the states
hay crop is placed at $4,000, 900.
Vermont ranked 10Th in total produc-
ton and the 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
1900 pounds compared with 1900
pounds in 1915. Only three states
surpassed Vermont in yield per acre.
The average yield for the United
States was 815 pounds per acre.
The value of Vermont's tobacco is -es-
timated at $4,000.
The apple crop for this state last
year is said to have been 1,1O4,000
barrels, compared with $4,000 bar
rels in 1915, or a crop more than
three times as large as that of the
previous year. The quality is said
to have been 80 per cent. No state
ranked higher and only five states,
South Dakota, Arizona, Nevada,
Washington and Oregon had the
same rank. The average price per
barrel Dec 1, was $2.7O. The aver
age price in Oregon was $2.55; that
of Washington $2.4O while it should
be remembered that those far-western
states are obliged to ship their apples
nearly 5000 miles farther than Yer
mont. The value of Vermont's crop,
using the number of barrels given
and the average price per barrel, is
$2,9SO, 800, compared with $913,68O in
1915. 1t will be seen that the value
of the crop of the previous year by
more than 100000. Oregon's out
put this year was 1,285, 900 barrels
and the value of the crop was $3,276,-
$50. Washington's output was $685.
600 barrels this year and the value Of
the crop was $7,740,OO0. 1t will be
be seen that Vermont ranked close to
Oregon both in total number of bar
rels produced and total value of crop
while that of Washington was lit
tie more than twice the yield and val
ue of Vermont's crop.
The total value of ten staple crops
in Vermont, corn, oats, rye, spring
wheat, barley, buckwheat, potatoes,
hay, tobacco and apples, was $32,O72,-
800. The total value of Vermont's
crops in 1915 was $27, $50. The
total value of Vermont's crops in 1914
was $25,316,25O.
The last available figures for the
production of gold and silver in this
country are for the year 1915. Yer
mont's hay crop last year was almost
as valuable as CALIFORNIA; gold out
put for 1915 which was $22, 547, 400.
The total value of Vermont's crops
for 1916 amounted to nearly as much
as the value of the total output of
silver produced in the United States
and Alaska for 1915, which was $751;
$4,000.