Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1917-12-06
CROP OF Il BILLION.
SHOWS RECORD PROSPERITY OF
AMERICAN FARMERs.
Thanksgiving Day Found Horn Of
Plenty BrImming FuII.-corn 10
First on List With Value
Of $4,659, ,00o, 900.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington. = Thanksgiving Day
found Americas horn Of plenty with
new high record fullness.
Responding faithfully to President
Wilson's appeal and the needs of .
war-torn world. American farmers pro
duced q gross total of 321.000,000,'
900 worth Of farm products, equalins
in valeu the nations total expenditure
in one year Of war.
That great total being the value Of
all crops, animals and animal pro
ducts, was $s,5O0, 100000 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 than $4,000. 100000 in value.
minor crops $2.6Oo.ooo.000. and ami
mails and animal products. including
butter, cheese and eggs, about $6,50o.-
100000. This years values are based
on preliminary production estimates,
and prices paid to producers Nov. ].
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. It is estimated at about $685.
900 900, compared with $2,296. .000. 900
last year. $1.72s.ooo.o0o In 1915. and
81 ST.. .000, 900 the average for the five
years 1904. In point Of quantity
corn this year saw its largest produc-
ton, being 100000 bushels more
than the 1919 record crop, 60s,000. 900
bushels moro than last year and 49,
O00, 900 bushels more than the 1904
five-year average.
Next in point Of value comes cotton
with a crop valued at about $1,981.'
100000, accounting for more than one
tenth of the years total value in.
crease. Production this year is about
100000 bales larger than last year and
2,S40,O bales smaller than the 1910
IA five-year average.
Hay is the next most valuable crop,
with a total of $1.3so.oo0.00o. com
pared with $1,162, 100000 last year and
81 ,056, ,O0O, 900 in 1915.
Wheat, the fourth crop in point OF
value. is worth more than a billion
dollars, for the second time in Amer
lean farming history. It's value is es.
timated at $1.32o.0OO.ooo, compared
with $1.025,765,OO last year. $o4s.
$4,000 in 1915 and Sc $4,000, the
average value of 1904 crops.
No other crop has reached the bill
lion-dollar total. although oats comes
within $25,0O0,O00 of that figure, be
ing valued at $975.000. 900. compared
with 1856, 100000 last year and the
1904 average Of $442, 900.
Potatoes passed the half billion-dol
lar mark, with a total Of $562.00o.0 .0oo
as compared with $417.068,000 last
year, 1921, 1,9s2,0 in 1915 and $21S,
651 900 the 1904 average.
Other important crops show in
creased values. Barley, estimated to
be worth $225,o0o.oo0, is more than
double the 1904 average value; rye,
with value of $95,000,000, is worth
almost four times as much as ita
value averaged for the 1904 crops,
and both buckwheat, with a value OF
$26, ,000,0 900, and sweet potatoes. with
value of $s4,000.000, are more than
double the 1904 average. Flaxseed
is valued at $29.o0o.000. and rice at
$3s, 900 900, both being less than last
year in point Of value. because Of
smaller production. Tobacco, REQ.
ord crop, is valued at $249 9,000, 900.
compared with 100000 last year
and $10s.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 $1z0,000,000, oom-
pared with $45,O00,ooO last year and
$27, 100000 in 1915; onions at $19.-
341, 900, compared with $9.sS2,000 last
year and $7,2S1 900 in 1915; kaffirs at
$12s, 900 900. compared with $b3,26s..
900 last year and $51.167.O0O in 1915,
and broom corn at $1s.5oo.ooo, COM
pared with $e.54s,ooo last year and
a, 4,7s9. 900 in 1915.
The peach crop is valued at $685.
boo, 900; pears. S13,500,000; apples,
S20s 1886 900; sugar beets. $4,000. 900;
cabbage, $4,000, 900; hops. 81. 2.o00. 900.
and cranberries, $2.400.0o0.