20 BIENNIAL REPORT OF DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE 



KENTUCKY ANNUAL CROP SUMMARY, 1928. 



ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Division of Crop and Livestock Estimates 



The total farm value of the principal farm crops in Kentucky, in- 

 cluding apptes, peaches, and pears, was approximately $189,065,000 in 

 1928 compared to $158,300,000 in 1927, an increase of approximately 

 $30,765,000 or about 19 per cent, according to the 1928 annual crop 

 summary issued by the Louisville office of the U. S. Division of Crop 

 and Live Stock Estimates. Increased price and production of tobacco 

 accounts for nearly all the increased value of Kentucky's crops in 1928 

 over 1927, giving about $29,544,000 increase out of the total gain of 

 $30,765^000 in the value of the State's chief crops. 



The total acreage of this State's principal field crops, not includ- 

 ing orchards, was about one and eight tenths per cent more in 1928 

 than in 1927, or 5,348,000 acres in 1928 and 5,254,000 acres in 1927. In- 

 creased total crop value compared to 1927 was produced by Kentucky's 

 1928 crops of tobacco, total hay, oats, buckwheat, sorghum sirup, 

 apples, peaches, and pears; but decreased total crop value was pro- 

 duced by corn, wheat, rye, barley, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, cot- 

 ton, and grain of cowpeas and soybeans either gathered as grain or 

 grazed off. 



Tobacco was Kentucky's most valuable crop in 1928, and corn in 

 1927. The estimate of the total value of this State's 1928 tobacco crop, 

 subject to revision if price changes, etc., require it, is $72,893,000 com- 

 pared to $43,349,000 in 1927, while the State's corn crop of 1928 was 

 worth $63,972,000 compared to $66,009,000 in 1927. Kentucky's total 

 tobacco production in 1928 was about 306,000,000 of all types together 

 compared to 202,269,000 pounds in 1927. Types of which the producing 

 areas lie either partly or wholly within Kentucky and which therefore 

 are of direct interest to Kentucky growers, are estimated as follows, 

 by entire type areas, regardless of state boundaries; burley 1928, 269,- 

 469,000 lbs.; 1927, 180,197,000 lbs.; Green river air cured, from both 

 Owensboro and Henderson districts, 1928, 24,500,000 lbs.; 1927, 18,110,- 

 000 lbs.; one-sucker, 1928, 22,086,000 lbs.; 1927, 13,056,000 lbs.; fired 

 tobacco from Henderson "stemming" district, 1928, 5,500,000 lbs.; 



1927, 4,200,000 lbs.; Hopkinsville-Clarksville-Springneld dark fired' type, 



1928, 82,300,000 lbs.; 1927, 63,000,000 lbs.; and Paducah-Mayfield dark 

 fired type, 1928, 30,700,000 lbs.; 1927, 18,000,000 lbs. The values of some 

 other Kentucky crops were: wheat, 1928, $1,270,000; 1927, $3,796,000; 

 oats, 1928, $4,520,000; 1927, $2,451,000; Irish potatoes, 1928, $4,788,000; 

 1927, $6,152,000; sweet potatoes, 1928, $1,433,000, 1927, $1,786,000; all 

 hay, 1928, $28,066,000, 1927, $27,620,000; sorghum sirup, 1928,' $2,873,- 

 000, 1927, $2,616,000; total apples, 1928, $5,700,000, 1927, $1,296,000.' 



H. F. BRYANT, Agricultural Statistician. 



