Pocahontas star herald., 1925-04-30
CROP YIELD
SHOWN IN REPORT

The average yield Of lint cotton per
acre in Arkansas for the five-year per-
iod from 1920 to 1924 was 159 pounds,
according to reports compiled by G. $.
BOuton, United States agricultural
statistician for Arkansas. The lowest
average yield was % pounds in Union
county. The highest average was 276
pounds in Mississippi county,
The price per pound on farms for
lint cotton on December 81 Of each
year during the same period was: 1920,
1873 cents; 1921, 16.1 cents; 1922, 23.6
cents: 1929, 31.9 cents; 1924, 22.8
cents; fiveyear average, 21.6 cents.
The report shows that the five-year
average Of total gross sales per farm
(including all field crops) was $G67.
The total gross sales per farm for each
of the five years was; 1920, $644; 1921,
$4G4; 1922, $40; 1923, $649; 1924,
$500.
Cotton and cotton seed formed 60
per cent Of the total gross sales of
farm products in 1920, II per cent lin
1921, n per cent in 1922, as per cent in
1923 and 75 per cent in 1924.
During the five years there was a
steady decline in all classes of live
stock except milk cows The percent
age of losses from 1921 to 1925 was:
Horses, % per cent mules, 10 per cent;
beef cattle, 40 per cent; swine, 10 per
cent; sheep. 60 per cent Milk cows
gained 10 per cent in numbers during
this period
The average yield of corn per acre
for the five years was 1913 bushels
according to statistics compiled by Il.
Roy Reid assistant director of the
state Agricultural Extension Service.
These statistics show that the aver
age corn production among farmers
who cO-Operated with the Extension
Service almost doubled that of farm
ers who did not cooperate with the
service.
In 1920 farmers planted 2,330,000
acres to corn. The average produc-
ton was 23.4 bushels per acre, com
pared with 39.S bushels for those
farmers who produced their corn un-
der conditions advocated by the Exten-
sion Service The corresponding fig
ures for other years were: 1921, 2,64O,-
600 acres; 22 bushels general average,
1913 bushels Extension Service aver
age; 1922, 2,25O,OO0 acres, 1915 bushels
general average, 29.5 bushels Exten-
sion Service average; 1923, 2,002,000
acres. 15.5 bushels general average,
27.9 bushels Extension Service aver
age; 1924, 2,20O,OO0 acres, 1875 bushels
general average, 35.3 bushels Exten-
sion Service average.
If all farmers had produced an aver
age equal to that of farmers co-operat-
ing with the state Agricultural Ex-
tension Service, the report says, the
state yield would have been increased
each year as follows: 1920. 3S,220,000
bushels; 1921, 45,672,OOO bushels; 1922,
22,500,0OO bushels: 1923, 24,S24,OOO
bushels; 1924, 41,36O,OOO bushels.
Mr.. Boutons report shows that farm
families consumed 6,343,OOO chickens
in 1924, an average of 2S per family,
and 1S,355.0O0 dozen eggs. This was
one chicken each two weeks for each
family with one extra for Christmas"
and one and half dozen eggs per
week.
The five year average lint cotton
production in Randolph county was 200
pounds per acre Only six other coun-
ties in the state exceeded this amount
The highest was Mississippi with 276,
Clay with 269. Craighead with 2G5,
Greene with 262, Poinsett with 237.
and Lawrence with 232. Union county
was lowest. with an average of 92
pounds lint cotton Der acre.