10 ANNUAL REPOETS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Exports of live stock from the United States. 

 [Biireau of Fweign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce.] 



VAIiUES. 



On the basis of prices that have recently prevailed, the total value 

 of all crops produced in 1919 is $15,873,000,000, compared with 

 $14,222,000,000 for 1918; $13,479,000,000 for 1917; $9,054,000,000 

 for 1916; $6,112,000,000 for 1914; and $5,827,000,000 for the five- 

 year average, 1910-1914. These values represent gross production and 

 not net returns to the producer. The value of live stock on farms 

 in 1919 was $8,830,000,000, compared with $8,284,000,000 in 1918; 

 $6,736,000,000 in 1917; $6,021,000,000 in 1916; $5,890,000,000 in 1914; 

 and $5,318,000,000 for the five-year average, 1910-1914. 



This increased financial showing, it is again necessary to empha- 

 size, does not mean that the Nation is better off to that extent or 

 that its real wealth has advanced in that proportion. Considering 

 merely the domestic relations, the true state is indicated rather in 

 terms of real commodities, comparative statements of which are 

 given in the foregoing tables. The increased values, however, do 

 reveal that the monetary returns to the farmers have increased pro- 

 portionately with those of other groups of producers in the Nation 

 and that their purchasing power has kept pace in the rising scale of 

 prices. 



PROGRESS OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



The results of agricultural operations during the war furnish 

 guaranty of the ability of the present farm population of the coun- 

 try, with the area now in farms and in the existing state of agricul- 

 tural science and practice, to meet the Nation's necessities for the 

 near future if the requisite incentives are furnished. But there are 

 reasons for further optimism. As has been repeatedly pointed out, 



