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Our oats reached the value of $384,716,000. Our rye was 

 valued at $23,840,000. Our barley was estimated at 

 $93,785,000. Our hay crop was worth to the fanners 

 of this country $747,769,000. 



Taking all these grasses together, but omitting our 

 sorghum, cane, kaffir com, and miscellaneous grass crops 

 of which I have seen no estimate, we produced grass for- 

 age for man and beast in 1910 to the value of 

 $3,412,145,000. 



In Kentucky alone our com crop meant to the farm- 

 ers of the State a value of $55,793,000. Our hay crop 

 meant $8,450,000 more, and, including all of which we 

 have estimates and estimating our pasturage as worth 

 as much as our hay, Kentucky produced grass crops 

 in 1910 having a total value to the farmer of $83,693,000. 



We hear a great deal nowadays about our tobacco, 

 but Kentucky's tobacco crop for 1910 did not equal her 

 com crop alone by $22,643,910. 



TABLE SHOWING VALUE OF GRASS CROPS IN THE UNITED 



STATES FOR 1910— FROM UNITED STATES 



CROP REPORTER. 



Corn $1,523,968,000 



Wheat 621,443,000 



Oats 384,716,000 



Barley 93,785,000 



Rye 23,840,000 



Rice 16,624,000 



(tfay 747,769,000 



Total $3,412,145,000 



TABLE SHOWING VALUE OF KENTUCKY FORAGE IN 1910. 



Corn $55,793,000 



Wheat 8,928,000 



Oats 1,912,000 



Barley 16,000 



Rye 144,000 



Hay 8,450,000 



Pasturage 8,450,000 



Total $83,693,000 



If our grasses are the equivalents of these tremen- 

 dous sums of money, if they mean the bulk of the profit 

 each year from crops harvested in all countries, if they 

 mean by far the most important part of food supplied 



