The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-01-06
STATES BIG YIELD
FOR YEAR 1920.
Wheat Over 23,O0O,OOO Bushels
Other Crops In Proper
tion.-Leads In Acre
Yield.

total value OF S94, ,04o,o as DdS
ed on prevailing prices Deeembe
list. This is $26, 1884, $50 less thai
the value of the same crops ;
year ago, which totaled $121 ,533,
OCT, and indicates % per cen
shrinkage in value in one year
although the harvest was tht
most abundant in the State S his
tory, with five crops breaking
records. The area devoted to the
seventeen major crops (fruit
omitted) was 2,499,650 acres il
1920 compared with 1898, ,437
acres in 1919, indicating an in
crease Of 4 per cent, or 101, liz
acres. Such increases can be ex-
pected in this state where new
area s are being brought under
cultivation annually 1t is inter
esting to note that the average
value per acre OH the above acre
age was $3786, while in 1919 it
was $5067 or 25 per cent greater.
The total wheat crop, winter
and spring combined, is now es-
timated at 23,600,000 bushels. 1t
is the largest crop on record, yet
its value is nearly ten million dol
lars less than last years crop,
which totaled only 19,075,0O0
bushels. The average price of
wheat in Idaho December list was
$1.25 per bushel against $2.O5 a
year ago. Wheat leads all crops
with a total Of $29,500,000; hay
is a close second with $685. 900
while sugar beets rank third with
value of $5,976,000.
The potato crop was nearly a
million and half bushels greater
than 1919, but its value is less
than half Of last years crop.
Farmers were getting an average
of .68 bushel as compared with
$1.51 year ago.
In view of the large crop Last
year, the fruit production was
fairly satisfactory. Peaches, how
ever, were a failure due to late
spring frost, but apples came
through with a 1861, 900 bushel
crop and pears totaled $4,000 bu.
Apples average 35 cents a bushel
less than a year ago but peaches
bought $110 above and peas sol
cents per bushel avove 1919 prlc-
es.
Idaho is a wonderful producer
of raw material. No state canI
surpass her in the yield per acreI
and quality of her crops. There
is need for establishing her Ag-
ricultural industry on morel
stable basis by developing the
feeding industry so as to ship
more Of our live stock to market
as fat stuff and by securing more
creameries, condenseries, sugar
beet factories, alfalfa mills andI
canneries. With such methods
through which to market crops |
the farmers would have a morel
satisfactory distribution OF in
come and less trouble with pro-
hibitive freight rates.
The production for 1920 of the
eight principal grain crops in the
United States is now estimated at
5 5,896,OOO,00O bushels compared
with 5,426,OO0,000 bushels inI
1919; the white potato crop is
43O, 100000 bushels compared
with 358 million bushels year
ago. The farm value on Decem-
ber first of the 80 principal grain.
fruit and vegetable crops is esti-
mated at SO, 149, 100000, compar-
ed with $14,088, 100000 which
was the value Of the correspond
ing crops of last year based on
farm prices of December l, 1919.
The value of the 81 principal
grain, fruit and vegetable cropsi
IN December first was $8,755,- |
100000 compared with $13,636,- |
100000, the farm value of last
years. crops on the correspond
ng date, and with $8,607, 100000,
he average value of the same
,rops for the preceding five years
,ased on the average farm price,
# each years crops on the first
lay of December of each year.
This makes the per acre value of
he q principal 1920 crops $25.73
compared with per acre last (
rear for the principal crops oil
1896 and an average per acre
ralue for the preceding five +:
vears of $25.97. Like many man
lfacturers and many merchants, {
he farmer will be compelled tol
Lbsorb heavy losses and, in pro- t
portion, his losses are greater
han those in other lines of en-
Ieayor.