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Show RECORD YEAH FDR AMERICAN FARMEB TEN BILLION DOLLARS' WORTif OF PRODUCTS, FIVE BILLION DOLLARS' CASH INCOME. Corn Is Still King, WiLh Cotton N-ext Hay, Wheat, Oats and Potatoes Following No Prospect of Lower Food Prices. Washington. Ten billion dollars' worth of products, f $5,000,(100 000 of cash income a bumper year in spite of droughts and other setbacks is the 191o record of (000,000 American ( farms. The most successful year ot husbandry husban-dry in the United States brought forth $6,100,000,000 worth of crops, of vhici $2,596,000,000 was represented by cereals and $3,650,000,000 worth, of an! mals sold and slaghtered and animal products. The value of the 1913 crop is twice as great as that of 1S99; more than a billion dollars over 1909 and substantially greater than 1912. Of al! the crops, hewever, it is estimated that 52 per cent will remain on farms, where, they were produced and that 26 per cent of the animal production will remain. On that basis the cash income is estimated by the department of agriculture ag-riculture at $5,847,000,000. But despite a record year of crop value although the record of produc tion has fsUen and the fact that the number of farms has increased 11 per cent since 1910 until there are 'estimated 'esti-mated to be 6,600,000 farms in the country, the department in a discussion of the subject made public Monday does, not take the view that a lower cost of living will follow as a consequence. conse-quence. Corn, witli a value of $1,692,000,000, comprised 28 per cent of the value of ... all crops, although the volume was under un-der the record. The other principal crops, with valuus, are given in the order or-der in which they come: Cotton, $798,-000,000; $798,-000,000; hay, $787,000,000; wheat the largest crop ever raised in th'is country coun-try $610000,000; -oats, $440,000,000; potatoes, $22S,000.000; tobacco, $122-,-000,000; barle-y, $96,000,000; sweet potatoes, po-tatoes, $43,000,000; sugar beets, $34r 000,000; Louisiana cane sugar, $26,-000,000; $26,-000,000; rye, $26,000,000; rice, $22,000r 000; flax seed, $21,00B,000; hops, $15r 000,000; buckwheat, $10,000,000. , |