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Show ALMOST FIVE BILLION VALUE OF FARM CROPS OF NATION THIS YEAR Washington, Deo. in With tho most vnluab'e crops of corn and cotton I oer produced and Uie second moat ) valuable oat crop tho value of tho nation's na-tion's fourteen principal farm crops I this year aggregate the enormous total to-tal of $.4,940,301,000, tho department of ngrlculturo announced today In Its final stlmato of ucrengo, production Mid value. This is an Increase of $182, 958,000 over the value of the same crops last year and of $350,772,000 over thoso of 1911, based upon tho prices paid to farmers on December 1. Tho narengo of these crops U equivalent equi-valent to n farm ono-Boventecnth tho size of continental U. S. Tho exact ex-act urei planted to thoso fourteen crops which Is moro than 95 per cent of tho total of hll crop area, was 299, 433,000 acres, an lncreaso of nlmost 5, 000,000 acres over Inst year's area and of moro than 2.000,000 over tho 1911 BTca. Moro than ono third of tho total acreage was planted to corn. For the crops ns a whole the ncreago product'on per ncrp wns valued at about $16.50. Tho corn crop averaged $15.90 per aero; cotton $22.19; oats $11.44; sweet potatoes $08.60; rlco $26.68; potatoes $02.10; tobacco $100. 39 and ryto $12.84. |