Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-02-08
South Produces A Per Cent of
 Crops in U. $.

AccOrdlnR to StatlStlcS computed
 by the Manufacturers Record, there
 was decrease last year in the com
 bined output of corn, wheat and
 oats of 236,OOO,0OO bushels in the
 country outside of the Southern
 States, while in the South these
 grains showed an increased produc-
 ton of 335,5o0,O0O bushels. As a re-
 suit of this the South made a great
 CT percentage of increase in the to-
 tai value of agricultural products
 than the rest of the country.
 The aggregate value of all South
 ern crops in 1919 was $7,O22, ,00O, ,OOO, as compared with $8,763.0OO. .0OO for the rest of the country. Thus the South last year produced A per cent of the entire crop values of the country. The most striking fact in connection with this is that the total cotton value, seed included, was only little more than $2,3OO, ,OOO, leaving nearly $5,000,000, ,O00 as the value of the South's diversified crops.
 Counting the South's livestock pro- duction at about the same percentage as ruled last year would give to this section S3,000,O00,000 as the value of it's livestock output, or a total of all farm products of $1O,000, ,O00, 900. This is $300,000,000 in excess of the aggregate value of all farm products of the United States as late as 1915, n1 .-L L-k had ever been reached up to that time, and is just little less than onehalf of the total value of the en- tire country of all farm products in 1918.
 some indication of the amazing ad-
 the agricultural wealth of the South. 1919, the increase being largely made up by the gain in it's grain output, was nearly S1,166 100000 more than in 1918, while in the rest of the country the gain was only $529, 9,S00,- 900. The South's increase in crop values was 19 percent, and in the rest of the country it was only per- cent.
 Comparing the crop values in 1919 over the average for the five years 1913-1917, the South shows a gain of $3 ,6O3 100000, which is equal to 105I percent, while the rest of the coun try for the same time had gain of $3, 794 100000, of 76 percent.
 In connection with the food sup ply of. the country, it is fact of sig importance that the grain production of the entire country out side of the South last year showed a decline of 236,OO0,OOO bushels, in contrast with the gain in the South of 335, 5,500,000 bushels. If it had not been for this remarkable increa SC in the South we would now have veryi much higher prices for foodstuffs and feedstuffs of all kinds.
 The decrease in the United States winter wheat acreage for this year of 25 percent, or 12,000,000 acres. l and similar percentage of decrease i in rye acreage are among the most signs of the times, show>f ing the great decline in the grain regions of the West of the acreage given to winter crops. Unless this decrease in the West is offset by an increase in grain ini the South this spring, there is al strong possibility that we might | next winter face shortage in grain production which would seriously af- feet our livestock supply and bring about food prices which would make the present prices seem very cheap.
 In the total value of farm crops last year, Texas leads the entire country with total of ,000,- 900, while the next state is Iowa, with $861 100000, and Illinois with s813, 3,O00,0O0. The extent of divers ity of farming in Texas is shown in the fact that the grain production of the state was nearly 40,000,000 bushels. Other Southern states made phenominal productions. The value of North Carolina crops last year was $683, 3,000,OOO, compared with the five-year average, 1913-1917, of b258, 100000. South Carolina's crop production last year exceeded in val ie by $45,0O0,000 the total of Cali and the value of North Car. ,lina's crops exceeded by $208,000,- poo the value of California's. The .hree Pacific Coast states, Washing on, Oregon and California, had ag- ,regate values for crops last year of which was $266, ,000, ,000 ess than the crop values of the state If Texas. North Carolina was fourth 1 ,n the list, being exceeded only by {, Texas, Iowa and Illinois. Georgia { very close behind Carolina. (