The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1920-12-09
More Produced
Less Money
Project Crop Census Shows In.
creased Production But Falling
on of Gross Values

force has completed the 1920 crop
census for the Newlands project
and forwarded much of the data to
Washington. This shows that what
appeared to be a s2,000,000 alfalfa
crop earlier in the season when pric-
es scared around $4,000 per ton,
dropped in value to $1,299,466,
92,91S tons of alfalfa hay being
raised on project farms which has
been given an average valuation of
$14.00 per ton. A total of 25,540
acres of project land Is now given
over to alfalfa hay production. The
average per acre value of hay thus
produced is $48.95. Although al
falfa is by far the leading project
crop. other forms of production en-
tered substantially into the gross
project output for 1920 to make 1t
of value of $1,686,401.
Wheat forms the item of second
airy importance in the list, an acre
age of 1886 having produced 91,-
533 bushels of value of $169,336.
The average per acre money return
from wheat practically equaled that
of alfalfa. being s4722.
Next in Importance was garden
and miscellaneous production. cred
tied to $50 acres, the yield approxi-
mating $53,574 in value or a per
acre money return of $3.50.
Alfalfa pasturage is given a value
nf xdS Q1T with m oifad
while potatoes were raised on 354
acres of the projects lands to the
amount of 36.S00 bushels, of to-
tai value of $44,160. The per acre
yield was fixed at 103.95 bushels
and the per acre money return at
s124.69. This is probably the
smallest spud crop raised in this
project in many years.
Honey is another of the leading
items of production, local honey
growers being credited with 124,510
pounds of seasonal output, of a
value of $24.012. This is only a
little more than one-third of the
amount turned off last year and no
reason has been offered for the de-
crease.
Other project production includ-
ed the following: Barley, 22,500
bushels from 769 acres of a value
of $22,500 or a per acre yield of
1926 bushels of a value of $2926;
Oats, 1875 bushels, of a value of
$2,160, raised on 6S acres, which
gave a per acre yield of 1868 BUSH
els which figured at ga cents per
bushel gave money return per
acre of $31.76. Grain hay was raised
on sos acres to the amount of ISL
tons which was worth at $14 per
ton the sum of s10,514, or a per
acre return of $20.S2.
The crop census shows that the
project now has a total of 742 farms
and that the total irrigable area of
these is 69,9S4 acres, or 3645 per
cent of the project as it will be con-
stituted when IL is fully developed.
The total cropped area on these
farms during the past season was
45,573 acres, or 1921 per cent of
the completed Newlands project.
Other interesting facts are
brought forward by the last crop
census which have not been fully
compiled and consequently are not
available for publication at this
time. These all combine, however,
to prove in a very satisfactory man
ner that the project has made sub
stantial advances during the pres
ent year, even though we are credit
ed with a decreased valuation of
crop production. incident to a fall
ing market for farm crops, a con-
dition that applies in equal force in
all farming districts of the United
States. The movement forward is
exampled by the new alfalfa acreage
credited to 1920 which approximates
4,254 acres. This has gone in alto
gether on new land, leveled during
the winter and spring of 1919-1920
and constitutes a little more thaa
one-half of the new cultivated area
of the project for the year the re-
mainder having been given over to
wheat and other forms of crops.