The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-15
In Value of Ten Staple Crops
During 1916 over the
Preceding Year
APPLES ALONE HAD
100000 INCREASE
Interesting Statistics Pre-
pared from Federal
Crop Report

The Vermont crop report for 1916 jus
issued in publication of the Unite'
States department of agriculture, show
that $4,000 acres of corn were grow
compared with $4,000 in 1915. The yielc
per acre was AZ bushels compared witt
40 in 1915. The average yield in thu
United States was 24.4 bushels and only
one state in the union exceeded Yer
mont's yield per acre. The total value Of
Vermont's corn crop is estimated at 81,
l2s000.
The area on which oats were raised
was $4,000 acres compared with l,00(
acres in 1915. The yield per acre was 81
bushels compared with 43 in 1915. This
yield was surpassed by is states. The
average yield throughout the country
was 30.l bushels per acre. The estimated
value of the crop in this state is $l,664,-
900.
The area devoted to rye was 1000
acres, the figures for 1915 being the
same. The yield per acre was 20 bushels
compared with II bushels for 1915. Only
one state surpassed Vermont in the yield
per acre and this state by only a half
bushel The average yield for the United
States was 1873 bushels. The value of
Vermont's rye crop is estimated at S24,-
O00
An area of 1000 acres was sown to
spring wheat, the same area given to
this crop in 1915. The yield per acre was
25 bushels compared with 80 bushels in
1915. Only two states surpassed Yer
mont's yield in bushels per acre. The
average yield for the country at large
was SO bushels. The value of the crop
is estimated at Sal 900.
The barley area of Vermont in 1915
was $4,000 acres compared with 10000 in
1915 The yield per acre was 27.5 bush
els compared with 35 bushels in 1915.
The Vermont yield was surpassed by II
states. The average yield for the entire
country was 1876 bushels per acre. The
value of Vermont's barley crop was S4l2,-
600.
The area devoted to buckwheat in this
state last year was $4,000 acres com
pared with 5000 acres in 1915. The yield
per acre was IT'S bushels compared with
~ bushels in 1915. Vermont was sur
passed in yield by II states. The aver
age yield for the United States was IA
bushels per acre. The value of Vermont's
buckwheat crop was estimated at $780,
600.
An area of $4,000 acres was devoted to
potato growing in Vermont last year
compared with "a 900 acres in 1915. This
state was surpassed in yield per acre by
ID states. The average yield for the
country at large was s0.4 bushels. The
value of the crop is estimated at So $751;
600. Although the yield per acre in 1914
was 1913 bushels and the total production
for that year was 100000, the total
value of that crop, 81 974,000, was ma
terially less than this years crop.
In 1916 Vermont's hay growing area
was nearly 100000 acres, 9s0,000 to be |
exact, compared with 10000 acres in
1915. The yield per acre was ITO tons
compared with 1.35 tons in 1915. Only |
Is states surpassed Vermont in the yield |
per acre. The average yield throughout |
the country was l.64 tons. The value of !
the states hay crop is placed at S20,992,-
600. Vermont ranked 10th in total pro-
duction and 18th in the value of the crop. |
The tobacco area of Vermont last year
was 100 acres, the same as the area of
1915. The yield per acre was 1000
pounds compared with 1900 pounds in
1918. Only three states surpassed Yer
mont in yield per acre. The average
pounds per acre. The value of Vermont's
tobacco is estimated at 100000
The apple crop for this state last year
is said to have been ll04000 barrels,
with $4,000 barrels in 1915, or
a crop more than three times as large as
that of the previous year. The quality {
is said to have been 90 per cent. No
state ranked higher and only five states,
South Dakota, Arizona. Nevada, Wash
ington and Oregon, had the same rank.
The average price per barrel Dec ! was
1910 The average price in Oregon was
1886; that OF Washington $40, while it
must be remembered that those HARVEST
ern states are obliged to ship their ap- II
pies nearly 5000 miles farther than Yer |
mont. The value of Vermont's crop. us Q
ing the number of barrels given and the "
average price per barrel, is S2,9S0, 500. lC
with S9l3,6S0 in 1915. 1t will I
be seen that the value of the 1916 crop /
m this state exceeded the value of the G
.rop of the previous year by more than %
3. 900. 900. Ii
oregon's output this year was l.2s5 900 |
barrels and the value of the crop was \
s3.276,750. Washington's output was y
.255,000 barrels this year and the value d
If the crop was s7'740O00 II will be $
zen that Vermont ranked close to Ore IN,
ron both in total number of barrels pro-
lueed and total value of crop, while that
Il Washington was a little more than
vice the yield and value of Vermont's
rop.
The total value Of 10 staple crops in Of
Iermont, corn, oats, rye, spring wheat, -
'arley, buckwheat, potatoes. hay. tobae-
o and apples was S32.072, 500. The total
alue of Nermont's crops in 1915 was
% GIL $50. The total value of Vermont's
rops in 1914 was S25.3l6.250
The last available figures for the pro
uction of gold and silver in this country "
re for the year 1915. Vermont's hay -
rop last wear was almost as valuable a. -
alifornia's gold output for 1918, which =
as So, 547, 400. The total value Of Yer !. I.
FONTS crops for 1916 amounted to near y. ~
: as much as the value of the total out :,
ut Of silver produced in the United %
tstes and Alaska for 1915, which was
81 ,397, 800. -