The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-09-11
zoo MILLION DOLLARS
GAIN IN SALE Of CROPS
FARM BUREAU FEDERATION
EXPERTS so ESTIMATE THE
ACTUAL CASH INCOME.
S., 100000 YEARS TOTAL
Agricultural Status Better Than Be
fore War, 1t Is Reported. Amount
Of Cash Each of the Principal Crops
Will Bring Growers.

CHICAGO.-Despite the wheat
slump, the cash income Of American
farmers from sales for this crop will
be about $200,000,000 greater than last
year. So the department of research
of the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton estimated today on the basis of
the latest production reports and
market trends The computations of
the farm bureau statisticians bear out
observations gathered during a recent
AGO. mile tour of 10 Mississippi val
, ley states, viz: that the status OF agri-
culture in 1923, despite all the calami-
ty bowling, is better than last year
and considerably better than before
the war.
The bureau says the 5000, 900
| gain in actual cash income from sales
is accounted for by. a probable in
crease in the value OF the cotton crop
and OF dairy and poultry output. 1t
points out that corn will bring more
than last year, but hogs are likely to
bring less; cattle will yield about the
same as last year, also tobacco, while
wheat will bring considerably less.
Income From Products Sold.
After much research, that has oc-
cupied the statistical experts for long
| time, the federation presents an inter
esting array of figures on the farm
ers' actual cash income. 1t is quite
different from the estimates of income
| framed from time to time by some of
! the economists and by the agricultur-
al department, in that the tables at
! tempt to- show actual income from
products sold, instead of giving the
total value of commodities produced.
Where the governments estimates
include the value of nearly everything
raised on the farm, including food
consumed and crops fed to stock, the
bureaus compilations are confined to
products actually sold off the farm
where produced the aim being to as
certain what the farmers as a group
actually receive in income from sales.
Many income estimates put in, for
instance, the value of the corn raised
by a farmer and also the value of the
hogs to which he feeds the corn, and
the data offered by the federation
eliminates such Implications.
$S,710,0O0,O0O This Year.
Last year the tables show the farm
ers' gross sales totaled $8,479000, 900.
The forecast for this crop year is So,
| 710,000,000
Last year the tables show the farm
ers' income divided as follows:
! Crops, $4,523,OO0,000; live stock
| S2.256O00, 0G0; animal products, ST.
! 700,000,000.
This year the estimates place crops
at $4,725,000, 900; live stock, $2,225,-
100000, and animal products $780,
100000
In other words, crops will bring in
cash $200,000,000 more than last sea
son; live stock will fetch $30000,000
less and animal products will bring in
$60,000,000 more than last year Max
| ing allowances for some unavoidable
Implications the experts put down an
increase of $200,000,000 in agricultural
income as a conservative minimum.
Interesting comparisons between
the pre-war and postwar periods are
brought out
Comparisons With 1909-1o10.
Farm sales last year." says the re-
port, were 81 per cent greater than
,, in 19O9-10.
The sources of farm income have
changed considerably since the pre-
war period, a shift having occurred
from live stock to crops, and still more
to animal products.
Total farm sales last year were 81
per cent greater than in 1909-10, but
sales of live stock showed an increase
of only 81 per cent, while crops gain
ed 50 per cent and animal products 81
per cent.
Among the crops the cereals have
become relatively less important. Cot
ton, while the tendency is downward
in production, is of about the same
relative importance as a money crop,
due to recent high prices. Tobacco
sales were nearly three times as high
as in 1909, and potatoes, commercial
vegetables and fruit have also increas-
ed greatly in value"