Official Documknt, No. ^^. 



NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 



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SECRETAHI OF ACRICOLTIIIIE. 



Department of Agriculture, 

 Harrisburg, Pa., January^ i, 190.'^. 

 To His Excellency, SAMUEL A\\ PENNYPACKER, Governor of 



Pennsylvania : 

 Sir: 111 coiupliaiKc with (lie i-('(iuirenieiits of the act of Assembly 

 ci-('iitiiig' a Depai'tineiit of Agriculture of I'enusylvania, I have the 

 honor herewith to submit my i-ejiort of said l)e{)artiiient for the year 

 1003. 



CROP VALUES. 



The year just closed has been a fairly prosperous year for the 

 fiinuers of the State. The total value of the cereal crops produced 

 during the year is estimated to be |G5,G()o,082, the value of the 

 several distinct grain crops being as follows: Corn, |25,905,t5.3; 

 wheat. 120,570,371; oats. |12,795,()51l; rye. |35G,84G; buckwheat, |2.- 

 G(i3,180 and barley, |105,873. Some of the other crops produced 

 during the year are estimated as follows: Hay. $52,G75,083, pota- 

 toes. 113.775,112, and tobacco $1,042,207. making the total value of 

 fjirin crops, exclusive of live stock, dairy products, poultry and other 

 jtroducts of the animal industry of the State, as well as all kinds of 

 fruit, $133,095,484. 



ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



The value of the products of the aiiinial industry of the State is 

 moj'c difticult to estimate. The remai'kable development in recent 

 years of the live stock industry in the states west of tin* ^fissouri 

 liver has done much to diminish the li\(' stock production of this. 



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