Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-07-05
Value of Farm Products
Nearly Doubled in the Past Two Years

In the years when cotton lint was sold by farmers at II low price, and
when cotton seed was little used and was more likely a waste and n nuisance
the cotton crop was outranked In value by corn, hay and usually by wheat
so that 1t was commonly the fourth crop in order OF value. BY 1890 cotton
had taken precedence Of the wheat crop, although the exceptional situation
during the first two years of the present war give whent the higher place.
GRADUALLY the cotton crop, Int seed, climbed oVer he great nay crop
and thus has cotton become In recent yenrs second only TO corn.
The corn crop OF the United States IS by far the most valuable agricul-
tural product. When the colonIss at jamestown and Plymouth were saved
from starvation by the corn provided by the Indians, this was II common In
dian crop east of the Great Plains, and Its annual production at that time
has been estimated to have been possibly 100000 bushels.
Corn at once became the mansmy of the agriculture of the whites and
the value of this crop, at farm prices, according % the estimate OF the
United states department OF agriculture, reached the extraordinary total OF
S4O5iOOOOO in 1917 for 3l60O0OOO bushels, the largest and most valuable
crop OF cor eve grown. The cotton crop is next below In value, with an
estimated production of lool0ooO bales Of 500 pounds gross weight worth
gate value Of the cotton crop OF 1917 at form prices, becomes siJsi5OOoO0o
Hay Is not the Joke that the funny writer's would have II. Indispensable
cotton and wheat for a place next to corn In value, but In the order Of crop
values In recent years It has n settled third place, below cMna and cotton, and
usually above wheat before the present war. In 1914 to 1910 II was slightly
exceeded In value by wheat but 1t resumed Its third place with emphasis
IN 1917 when the value of the crop was Si567OOOOOO for 95OOOOO tons
both quantity and value making the highest record, while the wheat crop
value wns 81 S07OOOOOO for 051GOO0O bushels.
Oatmeal was only for the sick, many years ago, and was sold by drug
stores; now, this food. more especially In the form Of rolled oats, has be-
one dietary, and horses and other live stock share the large crop with their
owners. In both production and value the oats crop OF 1917 exceeds that
OF every former year and the 1bs7O0OOOO bushels have a farm value Of
sOotOoOO This is regularly the nth crop in order of value.
producers value OF S55iOO000O. A very rough estimate gives the value of
S29sOOoOOo to the log, lumber and wood production of the farm. This is
the production Of what Is offer called the farmers wood lot, but In some
parts of the country the lot is often a sizable forest
The tobacco crop OF 1917, also is Mt the top OF the record, the 100000.
900 pounds being worth S207OO0O0 to the farmers. Below this. In order OF
value, follow the barley crop with n farm value " $23lOOOOODi apples, S2l3-
100000 kanr corn and milo mnl2e. $l31OO0OODi dry edible beans, Sill,
100000; peanuts, slO7OOOOoo, and rye SiOOO0OOOo.
Every other crop has a value less than that OF rye. An estimated value
Of S0OOOOOO IL given TO sweet potatoes; Of SGsOOOOO0 to rice; OF SOiOOO.
ss5 100000 to cabbares; OF SaiOOOOOO 10 oranges OF SosO0OOGO eocb m
the scale are Sorghum can sold uargey for forage), and sirup $4,000.
OOOi clover seed, $17OOOOOO; broom corn, s10OOOOOi and pears, Si6OOOOOO
crease of ~ per cent over the S0OO7WOOO OF 1915, or nearly n doubling In
two years.