The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-05-31
HEAVY DECLINE
IN DAIRY PRODUCTS
Value Drops 20 Per Cent In Year 1921
Some Reduction In Poultry
Values

WASHINGTON, May 81 = The val
ue of dairy products in 1921 was $2,410.-
100000, drop of 20 per cent from 1920,
according to a statement by the depart
ment of agriculture The 1920 value was
SO ,025, ,000,000 as compared with $2,970,-
100000 in which period the value of an
imals raised on farms declined sharply
The estimates of the quantities and
values of the various products include
milk production ofsl0, $50 600 900 gallons
in 1919, and I0,j25,000,000 gallons in
1920.
The estimated whole milk sales and
farm consumption, at farmers whole
sale prices, had value of $I,767 ,000,O0d
in 1919, of 81 ,S36, 900 in 1920, and
of 1879 000,0 in 1921. These values
are based on estimates of 6,l13,000,0 600
gallons of milk in 1919, 6101,000,00Q
gallons in 1920, and 7,11S,000,0 900 in
1921, at the average price of 1924 cents
gallon in 1919, of POI cents in 1920.
and of 22.19 cents IN 1921. These aver
age milk prices were computed from ex-
tenslve information on milk prices from
all parts of the country, based on the
relative monthly production.
/. For butter on farms, value of S345,-
100000 is estimated for 1919, of 1896,
100000 for 1920 and of $242 000, 900 for
1921, with an estimated output of farm
butter falling from 665,0000 900 pounds
in 1919 to 650,0000 900 in 1921, and an
average price OF 50.35 cents pound in
1919, of 5425 cents in 1920 and of 81 10
cents in 1921
Heretofore no estimate of The values
of butternilk, skimmi1k, and whey of
farms have been made as items of total
dairy products. Based on feeding value,
these products had a value of S26l 000,-
600 in 1919, of $3.50. 100000 in 1920 and
Of 800, 100000 in 1921.
The total value of poultry and eggs in
1921 was $943000,000, according to esti
mates. OF this, approximately $404 600, ;
600 was for poultry and $542 900 900 for
eggs. Production of poultry was 526,-
100000 chickens and nearly 24.000, 600
other fowls Production of eggs was
1887 100000 dozen chicken eggs, and
6,00O,000 dozen eggs from all other
poultry
The 1921 value of all poultry raised
on farms in the United States was a
drop from S456, 900. 600 in 1920 and from
S417. .000, COO in 1919. The decline in val
ue from 1920 to 1921 was due to the
fall in price per fowl, and the increase
in value from 1919 to 1920 was due to
larger production and an advance in
average prices. The average value per
chicken raised in 1919 was sic cents;
in 1920 it was S6.5 cents and in 1921 it
was Il cents.
The total value of poultry raised in
1921 is made MP as follows: Chic
kens, 1878 500, 600; turkeys, $12 100000:
geese, S7,0000O0; ducks, S4.90OOO0
guinea fowls, S1.900.0O0: pigeons, 81
100000 The estimated value of chic
ken eggs in 1921 was S539. 900 GEO; in
| 1920 it was $500, 600. 900 and in 1919 il
was $679 100000 For egg production OF
all kinds of poultry, not including
| pigeons, a value of S542 900, 900 is es.
timated for 1921; $765. 600. 900 for 1920
and S6S3 900 900 for 1919. In 1927 the
| average price of chicken eggs through
| out the entire United States was 29a
cents per dozen: in 1920 it was 44.4
cents and in 1919 it was II cents.