16 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



years or more. The farm price of hops in 1910 has improved some- 

 wliat over the avera<::e of the previous five years, so that the total 

 Value of the crop of this year is 3 per cent above the five-year average. 



ALL CEREALS. 



For transportation purposes and as a rough indication of the pro- 

 duction of all cereal crops, a statement of the total production of 

 those crops in bushels is interesting. In no previous year has the pro- 

 duction of these crops equaled the 5,140,896,000 bushels of the cereals 

 of 1910. The production of this year is 13 per cent above that of the 

 five-year average, which is about 4^ billion bushels. 



In value, however, the cereals of this year fall below that of 1908 

 and 1909, principally on account of the decline in the farm price of 

 corn. This year's value is 82,710,000,000, or about $230,000,000 

 below the total for 1909 and S50,000,000 below that of 1908; how- 

 ever, it is 11 per cent above the five-year average. 



SUMMARY OF COMPARISONS. 



This is the year of highest production for corn, oats, the total of aU 

 cereals, and for tobacco. But the only crop that reached its highest 

 Value this year is cotton. 



The list of crops that stand next to the highest, either in quantity 

 or value, or both, is much larger than the foregoing. In production 

 next to the highest year are found for 1910 the crops of rice, hay, 

 beet sugar, and the total for all sugar. In the list of the crops that 

 are next to the highest in value are wheat, oats, barley, tobacco, 

 flaxseed, beet sugar, and the total for all sugar. 



The potato crop was tliird in order of quantity and the com crop 

 and the total for all cereals were third in value. Barley and rye were 

 fourth in production and potatoes fourth in value. Fifth in pro- 

 duction was wheat and fifth in value rice. 



The average production of the five years preceding 1910 includes 

 the remarkably productive year 1906 and was generally a period of 

 vigorous production. Not\\'ithstanding the high character of the 

 period, the production of 1910 is above the five-year average in the 

 case of corn, oats, rice, rye, buckwheat, beet sugar, the total for all 

 sugar, potatoes, tobacco, and wool. 



In comparison with the average of the preceding five years the 

 Value of the crops of this year was greater in the cases of corn, wheat, 

 oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, cotton, beet sugar, the total for all 

 sugar, flaxseed, hay, potatoes, tobacco, and hops. 



The value of the farm products of 1910 shows both gains and 

 losses in comparison wdth 1909. A gain of $130,000,000 is made for 

 cotton Unt and seed, $30,000,000 for hay, and $3,000,000 for barley. 



