AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 



The farm products of the several States, and the 

 values of the farm animals therein, in the following 

 table are mainly from the Year Book of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture for 1913, and the 

 figures are for that year, except as noted otherwise 

 in the footnotes: 



VALUES OF VARIOUS FARM CROPS AND OF FARM ANI- 

 MALS IN PACIFIC COAST STATES. 

 (In thousands of dollars, three figures being omitted.) 



Crop Ariz. Utah Nev. Idaho Wash. Ore. Calif. 



Corn 524 238 40 305 762 419 1.597 



Wheat _ 1.021 3,358 302 5,351 23,652 9,229 3,990 



Oats 150 1,656 307 4,836 5,700 5,787 3,982 



Barley v l,082 635 443 3,629 3,791 2,310 22,542* 



Rye 122 38 101 262 90 



Potatoes 101 2.088 1,197 2,890 4,428 3.915 5,664 



Sweet Potatoes 1,020 



Hay 5,940 8,272 7,106 14,717 19,555 15,588 48,600 



Cotton 1,119 



Rice : t _.. 293 



Beet Sugar 1 .... . 57,231' 29,620 171,208 



Horses and Mules 8,424 12,555 ' 6,525 22,300 32,890 28,908 54,827 



Milch Cows 2,368 5,192 1,432 7,818 17,316 12,740 31,930 



Other Cattle 24,018 12,638 16,999 14,585 7,104 17,860 46,530 



Sheep 5,764 7,683 6,826 12,520 - 2,226 10,413 9,694 



Swine . . 230 926 416 2,696 3,607 3,300 8,368 



Hops 2 _ , ..; 665 2,839- 1,731 



Beans 2 4'5 10 76 9 23- 6,295 



Peas' , ' 6 9 116 16 101 



Fruit Crops 250 1,000 1,000 5,250 4,000 60,500 



Vegetables* 379 717 204 1,\)07 2,988 2,448 6,886 



1 Thousands of tonsj California product second only to Colorado. 



1 From U. S. Census, 1910. 



Second only to Michigan. 



4 Greatest state product in United States. 



All the valuations in the preceding table are 

 "farm values:" that is, no increment is attached 

 for transportation or trade handling, and they do 

 not therefore represent the market values which 

 are usually included in statements of this kind. 

 The table shows, however, the classes of farm prod- 

 ucts produced in each of the states and thus serves 

 as an index to the kinds of farming which are 

 chiefly followed and their relative importance, in 

 each State and in the group of States. 



Obviously the limitations of this writing do not 

 admit specific characterizations of the physical 

 features of the States which determine products 

 and determine also their geographical distribution. 

 Condensed descriptions along these lines may be 

 found in volume I of the Cyclopaedia of Ameri- 

 can Agriculture. Published descriptions can also 

 usually be obtained through application to the agri- 

 cultural experiment station in each State, i. e.: 

 Arizona at Tucson; Utah at Logan; Nevada at Reno; 

 Idaho at Moscow; Washington at Pullman; Oregon 

 at Corvallis; and California at Berkeley. 



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