Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-18 | Page 2 | U. S. Farms Yield $13,449,000,000 in Year

U U. S. S F FARMS YIELD INAR IN YEAR I Records Made Mode in 1916 Are Best in History of Country By Sy M A t tat aW d Pees to lo TJ Tt Tt L WASHINGTON Y Jan 18 American American farm fann products attained a gross value of In 1916 making that I year the greatest in point of of value of an any in ill the nations nation's existence That I estimate of ot the years year's gross value of ot farm crops and animal products I announced today by the department of a agriculture exceeds by 1 the Ule total of 1916 1915 the previous precious record and by more than three and andIn anda In a half halt billion dollars the value In 1914 Crop rop production for tor the year was comparatively low and did not reach record figures except In a few fen minor Instances but high prices sent total Values upI up I Crops were valued at a and d animal products at The crop value exceeded that of or II by hy and of 1914 by 2 2 Crops alone in 1916 were worth more moro than crops and animal products I combined in any year prior to 0 1912 I Four crops in 1916 each exceeded a billion dollars in value The corn com I product is put rut at cot cot- ton hay wheat Oti r crops that exceeded one hundred mil mii million lion dollars were were- Oats wood lot H itc nets apples tobacco barley The level Jevel of or prices paid to producers pro pro- I for tor the principal crops on December De De- cember 1 I 1916 was waa about p per cent hi higher her than a year prey previous ous I per cent higher than Ulan two years before and per cent higher than the tho average o or ot the previous eight years on oa December 1