The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-14

\ Cattle and sheep in Scotland rerna ned practically unchanged in number la 4 June in comparison with June, 1917 cording to the agricultural returns,
 swine declined per cent on account of diminished feeding stuffs.
 
 About 24 per cent of the entire hay crop is baled, it is estimated by the crop reporters of the bureau of crop esti- mates. It is expected that 1S.OOO,0eO bales Of cultivated hay and 24Ss.eo0 bales of wild hay will be baled from this years crop.
 Calculated on the basis of 13S pounds of sugar per ton of cane the average of the last seven years, the Louisiana
 sugar crop of this year had pros- nect on October 1 of about 2670OO short
 ons. The Average of the last 10 years
 gas 2s3,116 tons, and of the last five
 cars 2A0SO tons.
 Livestock reporters of the bureau of crop estimates had on their farms 21 per cent less cattle, A per cent more hogs, and 12 per cent less sheep on September than on August l, 1918. Of the total cattle reported. 51.7 per cent were cows and heifers over year old, 26.2 per cent were steers and bulls, and 22.1 were calves
 The United States exported 146 per cent of it's wheat crop in the five years preceding the war, IT per cent of the corn, 3S.3 per cent of the tobacco, and 691 per cent of the cotton In the three years before the war, this country ex- ported II per cent of it's oats crop, A per cent of the barley, 2.3 per cent of the rye, and 0.5 per cent of the potatoes. The average price of 8 farm horse in the United States, all ages included. de- clined from $145 in 1910 to S131 in 1916. ! In 1917 the average price went up to $132, but in 1918 the fall was resumed and the average price became SIPS. In 1910 the price of a farm horse averaged about 240 per cent higher than the price | of a. cow now horse averages only | 50 per cent higher.
 1 Although the average acreage of sugar i cane per farm outside of Louisiana is quite small this crop is so generally 1 grown in some of the southern states that the total acreage for an entire state may be surprisingly large. In Georgia, ! for instance, the cane patch per farm is i only two-fifths of an acre, according to an estimate made by the bureau of crop
 estimates, and yet the estimated total acreage of the state Is 67.So0
 | Of the German potash imported into i the United Kingdom before the war, about one-fourth was used in agriculture. but the prediction of German papers 1 that British agriculture would be greatly damaged by the stoppage of the supply from Germany has not been verified. New domestic sources of supply have 1 been utilized, chief of which Is the dust of blast furnaces. Another big source of supply has been found in the washing of 1 greasy wool, and another available one Is the dust and fumes of cement kilns.. The price paid for picking cotton this year, average S1.18 in North Carolina,
 SO9s in South Carolina $1o5 in Georgia, l s1S4 in Florida, S0.92 in Alabama, S0.96 in Mississippi, s104 in Louisiana, SIPS in Texas, SIPS in Arkansas. $1.a in Ten-
 nessee, Sl57 in Oklahomso and s2 in California These prices are per 100 pounIs of seed cotton, including short and long lint and sea island and have been ascertained by the cotton crop spe- oialist of the bureau Of crop estimates. In 1898 the United States average price for picking upland cotton was A cents.
 In the prewar period of five years, 1909- 1913, tho United States produced 1S.4 per cent of the worlds crop of wheat and contributed 135 per cent to the worlds exports of wheat. Of corn, the produc- ton was I'll per cent and the exports
 1ss per cent; of tobacco. the production
 was s6.7 per cent and the exports Al
 per cents and of cotton the production was sle DOT cent China onitte0 and the exports GAS per cent. During these same five years, the United States pro- duced 2e,2 per cent of the worlds crop
 of oats, 1SA per cent Of barley, per
 cent of rye, and 6s per cent of potatoes
 Tho number of sheep in the United States in the years indicated was: 1906. 50, s31 .s19; 1908, b4.s31.ooo; 1908. 6e,-