18 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTM?:NT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BARLEY. 



Barley is another crop deficient in production. The 146,000.000 

 bushels of this year's crop are 12 per cent below the five-year average, 

 and also below the production of every year since 1905. But the 

 total value of the crop is about $125,000,000, and much above the 

 record value of 1907. This is because the farm price rose to about 

 85 cents a bushel, far above the price for every year since 1881, when 

 it was 82.3 cents, and, with the exception of that year, far above the 

 price for every year since 1874, when it was 86 cents. Since the 

 record of the farm price of barley began in this department in 1806 

 the price of this year's crop per bushel has been exceeded in only 

 three years. 



TOBACCO. 



The tobacco crop is 2 per cent under the five-year average in produc- 

 tion and 5.3 under in value. From 1906 to 1909 the farm price of 

 tobacco ranged from 10 to 10.3 cents a pound; in 1910 it was 9.3 

 cents ; and for this year there is apparently an increase of a fraction 

 of a cent. Previous to 1906, when the 10-cent price was first reached 

 since 1887, there was a period during which there was a general com- 

 plaint among tobacco growers that the price was too low, if not 

 unprofitable. 



The crop of this year is estimated to be about 800,000,000 pounds, 

 worth about $76,000,000. The production has been larger in seven 

 years and the total value in two years. 



The tobacco grown in this country during the last five years is 31 

 per cent of the world's crop and supplied other countries with a 

 quantity that is 42,3 per cent of the world's exports of tobacco. 



FLAXSEED. 



The flaxseed crop of 22,000,000 bushels has a farm value of about 

 $47,000,000. The amount of the crop is 7^ per cent under the five- 

 year average, and the total value makes the extraordinary^ compari- 

 son of 53 per cent above the five-year average. This is because the 

 farm price increased from $1.01 in 1906 to $1.53 in 1909, to $2.31 in 

 1910, and to about $2.17 in 1911. The production of this year has 

 been exceeded many times, but the total value has never been equaled. 



RYE. 



With the lowest production since 1901, except three years, the rye 

 crop of about 31,000,000 bushels is 5.4 per cent below the five-year 

 average. Its value, on the contrary, is the highest ever reached and 

 is 12.2 per cent above the five-year average. Its farm value of about 

 83 cents a bushel is the highest since 1868^ except 1881. The total 

 value is $26,000,000. 



