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BULLETIN 1258, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
QUANTITIES OF PRODUCTS SOLD. 
It was difficult to measure, quantitatively, all the products sold 
from these farms, but the quantities of most of the products sold 
from the 100 farms are shown in Table 1, together with the number of 
farms selling each product. This part of the table differs from the 
other parts, in that it gives the quantities sold from all farms and is 
not a per-farm figure. 
Aside from the yearly variations in the quantities of the several 
products sold, which depend largely upon yields per acre, and the 
choice of the farmers as to the uses to which the land is put, and as to 
whether they shall feed or sell the feed crops, and if fed, to which 
kinds of stock they shall be fed, this part of the table brings out: 
Variation in number of farms selling corn from year to year, and the greater 
variation in the quantities sold, both affected largely by yearly variations in 
yields per acre. 
Rise, fall, and rise again of wheat production during the period — both in number 
of farms producing wheat and in total production. 
Increasing number of farms producing rye. 
Uncertainty of the clover seed crop. 
A few farms (usually the smaller farms) intensifying their cropping by growing 
a few acres of tomatoes which were sold to canneries. 
Decrease in number of farms making butter for sale, and the increase in number 
selling dairy production in the form of cream. Also, five farms selling market 
milk the last year. 
Decrease in number of farms keeping sheep. 
Decrease in the practice of caponizing. 
PRICES RECEIVED FOR PRODUCTS. 
The average yearly prices received for the several products sold 
from these farms are shown in the last part of Table 1; while the 
prices received each year, when expressed in per cent of the average 
prices for the first four years (1910 and 1913-1915). are shown in 
Table 39. 
Table 39. — Index of prices received for the several products sold. 
[Average prices of the four years 1910 and 1913-1915=100.] 
Item. 
1910 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
Aver- 
age of 
1916- 
1919. 
Aver- 
age of 
1910 
and 
1913- 
1919. 
76 
93 
106 
101 
90 
94 
110 
52 
87 
90 
100 
99 
83 
81 
04 
91 
100 
95 
106 
110 
101 
99 
92 
85 
90 
88 
132 
175 
111 
112 
79 
100 
107 
114 
116 
100 
116 
105 
98 
103 
98 
119 
107 
91 
97 
125 
103 
68 
114 
99 
98 
90 
99 
101 
94 
116 
94 
111 
98 
89 
(»: 
90 
104 
102 
111 
117 
95 
115 
90 
59 
102 
100 
125 
102 
109 
110 
104 
109 
98 
97 
118 
95 
96 
165 
116 
159 
169 
95 
112 
227 
82 
134 
124 
125 
117 
115 
138 
141 
116 
119 
93 
102 
130 
127 
182 
177 
240 
326 
145 
190 
165 
204 
174 
170 
213 
168 
144 
129 
170 
180 
155 
96 
89 
209 
120 
250 
180 
236 
236 
143 
249 
200 
224 
188 
184 
270 
180 
173 
191 
188 
215 
198 
89 
119 
236 
186 
250 
203 
236 
251 
204 
268 
341 
348 
218 
207 
213 
220 
181 
180 
142 
177 
173 
98 
100 
222 
188 
212 
169 
218 
246 
147 
205 
233 
214 
178 
171 
205 
171 
153 
100 
162 
172 
161 
94 
102 
199 
181 
156 
Oats .. 
135 
Wheat .. 
159 
Rye 
173 
Hay. 
123 
152 
Potatoes 
167 
157 
Butter ._ 
139 
Cream 
136 
Wool.. 
Eggs 
153 
136 
127 
130 
131 
Bulls... 
130 
Steers 
131 
97 
Colts 
101 
Hogs 
Chickens. 
150 
129 
