Show DROP IN CROP VALUE The value of farm crops of 1920 and of the farm animal products and animals sold and slaughtered as finally by the bureau ol of crop estimates United States department department department de de- de- de of agriculture is 1 or below the tho total of 1919 The drop Is almost entirely confined to crops among which the chief declines In value are Corn OOOO cotton lint and seed wheat hay tame and wild tobacco and oats On the other hand as man mans as asten asten asten ten crops gained in value chief of which are oranges with a gain of and sugar beets 24 Oth Other r Items of gain are cabbage 1 cowpeas sorghum cane sold and syrup made Small gains were made by soy beans sugar beet seed maple sugar and syrup and onions Apparently the products of the far wood lot have gained in value In In the comparison comparison comparison com com- parison with 1919 After offsetting gains against losses the net crop value reduction in 1920 b- b blow below low 1919 is while only is found in the total of farm animal products and farm animals sold an an The wool decline f isas is isas as yet unrealized but it is reckoned at Of the animals sold and slaughtered the decline for cattle cattle cattle cat cat- tle and calves is and for Cor swine But on the theother theother theother other side of the account dairy products products products pro pro- ducts gained and poultry raised and eggs produced It is the rule that in the upward and downward movements of prices farm animals and animal l products In 1920 on account of the extraordinary ary fall In the prices of crops within a short period of time that the total crop value of 1920 is reckoned to be only 56 66 per cent of the total value of all farm products In the estimates for a long series of years this is the first crop value alue estimate that has fallen below belov 60 GO per cent of the total of all products |