The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-01-14
s163,OOO,OO0 DECLINE
Value of Mississippi Crops IS Per
Cent Less Than That of 1919
Harvest.

Waynesboro.-The aggregate value
of the 10 principal crops of M2ssis-
sippi harvested in 1920 was $1SS.260.
600, according to estimates prepared
by the United States bureau of crop
estimates, and issued by j. A. Ra-
mey, agricultural statistician. The
total value OF the cultivated crops.
not harvested but ''hogged" off, was
1883, 900. The combined value of
the harvested and unharEested crops
for the year was $196,113.00O, COM
pared with S359.744,OO0 for 1919,
showing a loss OF s163, So, 900, or 45.5
per cent, in the face OF about the
same production for each year, AL
crops considered.
The total harvested acreage for 1920
amounted to $780, 600 acres, against
1860 in 1919, or an increase OF
$4,000 acres in 1920. The unharvested
crops show $4,000 acres, compared
with 1,139, 100000 in 1919, or loss OF
100000 acres. The total area devoted
to both harvested and unharvested
crops in 1920 amounted to S,S6S, 900
acres, compared with 8, 135,000 in 1919.
showing 266,000 acres less to all crops
in 1920 than in 1919. That loss, how
ever, is shown largely in cowpeas and
velvet beans, due largely to an made
quate seed supply. AS those crops are
intertilled generally with corn, the
loss does not affect the actual acreage
cultivated.
The actual cultivated acreage of the
state is much less than indicated by
the figures shown above on account
of Implications caused by intertilled or
succession crops. Seventy-five per
cent Of the oats land produced a Sec
ond crop, such as corn, sweet potatoes,
cowpeas, soy beans hay, etc; so per
cent of the soy bean crop, so per cent
of the cowpeas crop and 100 per cent
of the velvet bean crop are intertiled
with corn. The figures for those crops
show Implications amounting to 1872
900 acres in the cultivated area of the
state, leaving the actual area devoted
to crops reported on in 1920 as 1881
900 acres. (The foregoing figures do
not include acreage and values of
fruits and vegetables)
Very few peanuts are grown in Mis-
sissippi the state ranking next to low
est of the southern states in the acre
age to that crop. Eighty per cent OF
the small acreage planted is ''hogged"
Off
Velvet beans are grown largely in
the open range counties of the south
ern section, where each farm is fenced.
On that account very few are har-
vested, the farm stock grazing them
off during the winter. There are no
mills within the state for manufactur-
ing them into feeds, nor are any ship
ped from the state.
Cowpeas are grown in all counties
for grain, hay or soil improvement.
Relatively few peas are harvested in
the delta counties. Nowhere is the
full yield harvested. The commercial
belt extends from the northeast to the
southwest corner, and is IS miles in
width.
Soy beans are not grown generally
over the state. but are found to some
extent liz all counties The heaviest
acreages are found in Yazoo, Holmes,
Prentiss. Lee and Chickasaw counties,
but relatively few are harvested.
The pecan crop was a near-failurs
due to the heavy crop of last year and
the spring and summer rains which
washed off the blooms or caused
"scab."