CONSUMPTION 



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Massachusetts $ 31,948,095 Maine $ 39,317,647 



Rhode Island 3,937,077 Connecticut 22,487,999 



New Jersey 40,340,491 Delaware 9,121,809 



Florida 36,141,894 Nevada 5,923,536 



Arizona 5,496,872 



Total $112,367,557 New Mexico 8,992,397 



Wyoming 10,022,961 



Total. $101,363,221 



The $113,513,971 worth of farm products used in the production 

 of distilled spirits and fermented liquors consisted of barley to the 

 value of $55,236,641, corn $30,924,335, wheat $869,938, rice $7,288,786, 

 hops $11,155,215, rye $4,604,476, molasses $2,056,626, fruit $751,835, 

 and other agricultural products, primary and secondary, not included 

 under the head of corn, $626,119. 



The total farm value of the products used in the production of 

 fermented liquors was $87,520,287, or 77.1 per cent of the total 

 amount used for the production of alcoholic beverages of all kinds, 

 and that of the products used in. the production of distilled spirits, 

 $25,993,684, or 22 . 9 per cent. Each barrel of beer yielded the farmer 

 $133 . 98, being 79 . 58 cents for barley, 23 . 97 cents for corn, i . 33 cents 

 for wheat, 11.16 cents for rice, 17.08 cents for hops, and 0.86 cent 

 for other products. These amounts do not include transportation, 

 commission, insurance, or, in the case of barley, the cost of malting, 

 but, as already stated, are the net prices received by the growers. 



COST OF FARM LABOR 



The reports of the last United States Census (see Vol. V, pp. 560- 

 64) show the amount expended for farm labor to have averaged n . 88 

 per cent of the total value of the crops produced. Applying this ratio 

 to the $113,513,971 worth of farm products used by brewers and dis- 

 tillers in 1913, it will be seen that their production involved a total 

 payment for farm labor amounting to $13,485,460, a sum sufficient 

 for the employment of 74,919 persons for six months at an average 

 wage of $30 per month. 



THE MARKET AND THE FUTURE 



Our complete figures show that there are three states (New 

 York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois) in each of which between ten and 

 twenty millions dollars' worth of farm products were used in the 



