20 ANMAF, 1!I:P()RT8 OF DEPAHTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



while it imlic-ati's tluit ilic agricultural year of VMl was below par, 

 it is far from indicating any degree of calamit}'. If the great cotton 

 crop be taken into account, the total crop production is belov the 

 average in a less degree than the cereals suggest. 



SUGAR. 



Sugar making belongs to manufacturing and not to agriculture, 

 3'et cane and beet production can best be treated through the sugar 

 made from them. The refined "beet sugar made this year nearly 

 equals 600,000 short tons, the largest amount ever made by about 

 80,000 tons. This is about 24 per cent more than the five-year average. 

 The value has, of course, soared and amounts to about $90,000,000, 

 including value of pulp, the highest previous value being about 

 $00,000,000 for 1909. It is 81 per cent above the five-year average. 



The cane-sugar 2:>roduction of 1911 is estiniated to be about 380.000 

 short tons of raAv sugar, or about 5^ per cent above the five-year 

 average production, but yet an amount that has been exceeded several 

 years. The value is about $45,000,000, which is far above the highest 

 figure ever before reached and is 58 per cent over the five-year 

 average. 



Both kinds of sugar combined, the production equals about 975,000 

 short tons, or about 85,000 tons more than the record production of 

 1909. The f actor}?^ value of this sugar and the beet pulp, which is used 

 for feeding purposes, is about $135,000,000, or about $41,000,000 more 

 than the value of the two kinds of sugar for 1909, the year next to 

 1911 in order of value. 



SU3IMARY OF C03IPARIS0XS. 



The year 1911 was a poor one for record-breaking crops, since the 

 list includes only cotton and sugar- beets. In these cases, however, 

 the achievements are memorable, because of the great increases over 

 the production that was previously highest. 



Apart from these two crops, not a crop reaches a place that is next 

 to the highest production of former years; corn and rice win third 

 place, and buckwheat third place since the sixties; the total of all 

 cereals occupies fifth place, and the other crops are farther down the 

 scale. 



The tale is reversed when the values of the crops are considered. 

 The crops that have won first place make a formidable list in spite of 

 the fact that they had previous ver}' high values to exceed. The list 

 is corn, barley, rj^e, buckwheat (since the sixties), potatoes, hops, flax- 

 seed, sugar beets (or beet sugar), and cane sugar. No other crop 

 reached second place in order of value in comparison with other years, 

 but the total value of all cereals and of all crops did. The crops that 



