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In May and June 1911 the country east of the Rocky Mountains suffered severely from a 

 series of hot waves in May and June 1911 and from January to June 1911 from a sub-normal 

 rainfall. The Weather Bureau reported that in a half century there had not been such a 

 continuous high temperature as in these two months. The rainfall was 27.8 % less than usual 

 in New England, 21.6% less in the West South Central states, 21.2% below normal in the 

 Pacific Northwest, 25.4% in the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas, 19.7% in Minnesota, Iowa 

 and Missouri, 12.4% in the Middle Atlantic group, and 10.3% in the East South Central 

 states. The result was that the total value of the crops of 191 1, estimated at 5,504,000,000, 

 was only $44,000,000 greater than in 1910, in spite of higher farm prices for all crops except 

 cotton, cotton-seed and flaxseed. The total value of all farm products in 191 1 was $8,417,000,- 

 ooo, being $277,000,000 less than in 1910. The loss of $321,000,000 ($277,000,000 net loss 

 plus $44,000,000 increase in value of crops) was in animal products eggs, wool, butter and 

 poultry being less and only dairy cows more valuable than in 1910; in 1911 the value of animal 

 products was $2,913,000,000 ($3,234,000,000 in 1910). 



In 1912 there was no such damage from inclement weather. The value of animals slaugh- 

 tered was less than in the preceding year (or in 1909, but more than in any other year since 

 1900); but the crop value was much greater and the total value of farm products was $9,532,- 

 000,000. Taking 100 as the value of farm products in 1899, the United States department 

 of agriculture estimates the products of 1905 at 133, of 1910 at 184.3, of 1911, at 178.4 (being 

 less than in 1909 or the preceding year) and of 1912 at 202.1. 



In 1911 nearly all crops were less than the average for the preceding five years; but in 

 1912 nearly every crop was greater than ever before. Wheat and tobacco had twice been 

 greater, and cotton and rice once. 



Indian Corn. The crop of Indian corn in 191 1 was estimated to be 2,531,500,000 bushels, 

 with a farm price per bushel higher than in any year, except 1883, in the records of the 

 United States department of agriculture; and the total value was greater than in the previous 

 year, was twice the value of the cotton crop and was hardly exceeded by the value of cotton, 

 wheat and oats combined. In 1912 the crop was 25.2 % greater than in 1911. 



Cotton. The cotton crop of 1911, about 15,700,000 bales (only 11,610,000 in 1910), 

 grown on 36,045,000 acres (only 32,403,000 in 1910), was probably the largest ever grown 

 in the country, but its value, though above the average for the five preceding years, was less 

 than that of 1910, lint being nearly 5 cents a pound cheaper and cotton-seed being corre- 

 spondingly lower in price. In 1912 the crop was smaller than in 1911 or in 1904 and was 

 exceeded in value by the crop of 1910. 



Hay. Third in value in 1911 was the hay crop, 47,444,000 tons. The average crop for 

 the five years preceding was one-third greater and the crop since 1888 was each year larger. 

 The crop was so small that there was an increase in farm value of $2.50 a ton, and the total 

 value, $694,570,000 was exceeded only in 1910 and 1907, and was a little more than the five 

 years average. In 1912 the hay crop was greater in value than the cotton crop or the great hay 

 yield of 1910, being $861,000,000 nearly as much as wheat, tobacco and potatoes together. 



Wheat. The 1911 wheat crop, about 621,340,000 bushels, was less than the five-year 

 average; in the preceding decade the crop of 1904 only was smaller. The value of the wheat 

 crop, about $543,000,000, also was far below the average; it exceeded the value of the crop 

 of 1906, when the average price a bushel was nearly one-third less. In 1912 about 730,267,000 

 bu. ($555,280,000, farm price) was grown (less than in 1901 or 1906), the spring crop being 

 much better than the winter yield and the total being tme-ninth more than the average for 

 the preceding five years. 



Oats. In oats, as in hay, the crop was so small in 1911 that the price was unusually high 

 and the total farm-value above the five-year average. . It was 922,000,000 bu. valued at 

 $414,000,000 (about $408,000,000 in 1909 and in 1910). But in 1912 the crop was 46% 

 greater than the previous maximum crop of 1909, 51.5% more than the five-year average. 

 The large r.rop, 1,418,337,000 bushels, forced the price down and the value was $452,469,000, 

 only 22.2 % more than the preceding five-year average. 



Potatoes. The 1911 crop of potatoes was about 290,000,000 bu. (349,000,000 in 1910; 

 376,500,000 in 1909), but the farm price was nearly one-half greater than in 1910, and the farm 

 value, $233,800,000, was far greater than the five-year average, or than in any preceding year 

 of record. In 1912 the production was much larger, 420,647,000 bu., 29% above the five- 

 year average; the farm value was $212,550,000. 



Barley. The barley crop of 191 1, 160,000,000 bu., was much less than for any one of the 

 years 1908, 1909, 1910; but the price was high and the total farm-value, about $139,000,000, 

 was a third greater than that of the 1910 crop. The 1912 crop was the largest on record, 

 223,820,000 bu., 35.7 % more than the five-year average, but the price declined and the total 

 value was $112,957,000, much less than that of the small crop of 1911. 



Tobacco. The tobacco crop of 1911 not merely was short but commanded a price only 

 a little higher a pound than in 1910 and considerably less than in any year between 1906 and 

 1909, inclusive. The crop, grown on 1,013,000 acres (in 1910, 1,366,000), was 905,109,000 

 Ibs. (1,103,415,000 Ibs. in 1910), valued at $85,210,000, nearly one-sixth less than in 1910. 

 In 1912 the crop was 962,855,000 Ibs., 7.1 % more than the five-year average; the average 

 price per pound also increased, so that the gain in value will be greater. 



