The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-01-01
1880 MINNESOTA
CROPS $23O,59S,OO
Total of 17.702.OO0 Acres De-
voted to Farm Products,
Crop Service Reports
NINE PRINCIPAL CROPS
Yield and Quality Was Gener-
ally Go0d-Value $S8,000,-
600 Less Than in 1929

Value Of farm crops in Minnesota
dropped $88,0O0,0OO in 1880 compar-
ed with a year ago, although pro-
duction this year remained at much
the same level, Paul H. Kirk, sta
tistician for the Minnesota Crop
Reporting Service, said today in a
crop review.
Value of products in 1880 was
230598.000 and in 1929, $318, 957 600.
The value was reached by taking
the average market prices of the
various crops. The sharp recession
in agricultural prices from 1929
accounted for the large reduction
in values.
Although production of oats was
greater than any other product.
corn is easily king of Minnesota
crops. Oats production totalled 153.-
$4,000 bushels, valued at $50 $685.
600 as of December 1, while 148.
855,000 bushels of corn brought
farmers SOC, 756 900.
While the total production was
smaller in 1880 than in recent years
value of the nine principal crops
this year is greater by % per cent
than in 1921, the poorest crop years
of the past decade.
The report showed that the total
acreage devoted to the principal
crops in Minnesota this year, with
the exception of sorghum for syrup
and sugar beets, was 17,702 900 acres
compared with 17,7S6,000 acres in
1929.
From this acreage in 1880 there
was produced 421 ,214,O00 bushels of
grain crops and potatoes; 1,068 600
bushels of carrots, cucumbers and
onions; 1870 tons of sweet corn
and cabbage; 30,967, 900 pounds of
peas for manufacture; 5,611, 900 tons
of hay; and 2,875,00 pounds of to.
bacco.
Production in 1929 acreage
amounted to 421, S89, 900 bushels of
grain crops and potatoes; $4,000
bushels of carrots, cucumbers, and
onions; 1900 tons of sweet corn
and cabbage; ELISA 600 pounds of
peas; 6,467, 900 tons of hay; and
1 100000 pounds of tobacco. There
also was produced $4,000 bushels
of apples this year compared with
726,O00 bushels one year ago.
Production of the nine principal
crops, which excludes all hay, was
400, 891 900 bushels compared with
421 ,535 600 bushels in 1929, or 99.S
per cent of one year ago. Value
of the first II crops, which includes
all hay, this year was 1924, $4,000
compared with $312, 81, 900 in 1929,
this year being only 71.9 per cent
Of the value last year. Production
of all hay this year was about 81
per cent of last year and the gross
farm value, based o the December
1 farm price, was 80 per cent of
last years farm value.
when comparisons are made
with the very bad year of 1921 con-
ditions do not appear quite so
gloomy or depressing. Mr.. Kirk
said. I'm 1921 the production of
the nine principal crops was 344,-
$4,000 bushels, which is about %
per cent less than the 1880 produc-
ton; and the farm value of these
crops in 1921 was only $40, 826, 900
compared with $173 10000 this
year, so that the increase in gross
farm value for 1880 over 1921 is
slightly more than % per cent The
production of all hay in 1921 and
1880 was about the same, while the
farm value this year is nearly 81
per cent greater than in 1921.
From a yield and production
standpoint in 1880, all crops with
the exception of potatoes were gen.
orally good in practically all Sec
tions of Minnesota and in many
cases exceeded yields of one year
ago." the report said. There were
however, some sections in the
state where hail storms were very
severe, and in those districts crop
production was seriously curtailed
I'm fact, from a yield standpoint
in percentage Of the 10-year aver.
age, Minnesota in 1880 is 98.7 per
cent, and ofsthe states in the corn
belt area it is exceeded only by
Nebraska at 1857 and Wisconsin at
1908 per cent Of this 10-year aver
a ~,