The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-14
Vermont Near Head of Ma
TONS List in Average
Production Per Acre
AGGREGATE VALUE
TOTALS S33,822,O00
This Is More Than Gold Mining Output
of the Country in a Single Year
Hay Sometimes Exceeds in Value ALI
Other Crops Raised.


MONTPELIER, Jan. l4.-One of |
Uncle Sam interesting publications !.
is the report issued by the United
States department Of agriculture show
ing the amount and value of crops for
the year 1917. and comparisons with
previous wears.
1t is a noteworthy fact that for
many years Vermont has ranked near
the lead Of the list in crop yields per
acre, notwithstanding the belief held
by many people that its stony and
somewhat barren region where the in
habitants secure a precarious living
from an unfertile soil. During the past
year, according to government stats
tics, the II staple crops, corn, oats, rye,
spring wheat, barley, buckwheat. pota
toes, beans, hay, tobacco and apples,
produced food supplies and forage with
an aggregate value of $32,7s9 for the
same crops in 1916. 1t viii be noted
that last years hay crop was smaller
than that of 1916; the apple crop was
much smaller and the yield per acre Of
potatoes showed a falling off
The acreage of corn in Vermont in
1917 was $1,000 acres; in 1916, $4,000
acres. The production was: 1911l
2.53s.oo bushels: G9l6l, 49,. 600
bushels The WELD per acre was: 1917.
- bushels; 1916. 81 bushels The aver
age yield per acre i'll the United States
in 1917 was 26.4 bushels. Only one
state exceeded Vermont 5 WELD per
acre. The total value Of Vermont :
om crop was S5.406,o0O.
The acreage OF oats in 1917 was
$4,000 acres, compared with 10000
acres in 1916. The crop amounted to
3,l6S.000 bushels, substantial cain
over the 1916 crop of 2,560, 900 bushels
The average WELD per acre was: 1917.
80 bushels; 1916. ~ bushels The aver
noe Weld in the United States was
36.4 bushels. Vermont 5 yield per acre
was exceeded by Il states. The total
talue of Vermont 5 crop Of oats was
50 ,693 600.
Rye IS not enc OF Vermont prin-
ripal crops. The acreage in 1917 was
the same as that reported for 1916.
600 aeres. The amount Of the crop.
10000 bushels, was the same for the
| two years and the average yield PER
| 1cre, 20 bushels. was also the same.
| The average yield in the United States
vas ~ bushels. only one state, how
ever, exceeded Vermont : yield Of rye
per acre. The total value of Vermont s
| rye crop was $4,000.
There was a material gain in the
| production of spring wheat, the acreage
| III 1917 being 300 acres, compared with
| 1000 in 1916 The production was co.
coo bushels, while in 1916 it was %
! 600 bushels. The yield per acre was %
| bushels. compared with % bushels in
| 1916. Seven states raised more bushels
! of wheat per acre than Vermont. The
total value of Vermont 5 wheat crop
was $l42. 900.
| In 1917 Vermont 5 acreage of barley
was 1900 acres and 1916 it was l5,-
600 acres. The production was: 1917.
10000 bushels; 1916, 412, 900 bushels.
! The yield per acre was: 1917. %
bushels; 1916, 27.5 bushels. The aver
age yield in the United States was %
| bushels. Vermont was exceeded in
yield Per acre by II states. The total
! production was more than twice the
! barley corps of Maine and New Hamp-
shire and almost as much as the agare-
gate production of Pennsylvania, New
Hampshire and Maine. The value of
Vermont 5 barley crop in 1917 was
100000
The area devoted TO buckwheat III
1917 was 1900 acres which was 900
acres greater than in 1916. The pro
duction was: 1917, 2s6,000 bushels;
1916, 100000 bushels. Yield per acre,
! 1917, - bushels; 1916, 10 bushels.
| Average yield in the United States.
III bushels. Vermont led the Union
IN bushels of buckuheat per acre and
the crops of New Hampshire, Massa
ehusetts, Connecticut, Illinois and
Nebraska are needed to equal that of
Vermont. The value of Vermont s
buekwheat crop was $429, 600.
There was a substantial increase in
the area devoted to potato growing
10000 acres in 1917, compared with
$4,000 acres in 1916 The total pro-
duction was: 1917. 100000 bushels
and in 1916 was ll2 bushels. Nineteen
states raised more bushels per acre
than Vermont and the total production
was more than the potato crops of New
HAMPSHIRE Rhode Island The value
of Vermont potato crops, estimated
from prices of December l, was 81 200,
900.
t Vermont g Greatest Crop.
Vermont $ great crop is hay anG
sometimes exceeds in value all Other
Vermont crops. The acreage in 1911
was $4,000 acres. The production
WAS: 1917, ,531 900 tons; 1916, / 500.
! goo tons. The yield per acre was
! 1917, l.62 tons; 1916, l7O tons. Thu
average yield in the United States wa.
, Lac tons per acre. Vermont was ex
! aeeded in tons per acre by II states
: but by only one state, Wisconsin, cas-
|, IF the Mississippi river This is bet
=" ter showing in yield per acre than tn,
state has made in several years. TIL