10 
BULLETIN 1388, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
changed for the different commodities. The price level for alfalfa 
hay and wheat rose and dropped more abruptly than the price level 
for potatoes, whereas sheep prices rose and dropped sooner than the 
price of hogs. Butterfat prices did not reach the high- price levels of 
the other farm products; neither did they experience the same 
disastrous decline following the World War. 
TOTAL 
1913 1914. 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 
Fig. 5.— Crop value per acre for alfalfa and potatoes and the percentage of the total crop area 
devoted to each of these crops. Sunnyside division, 1913-1923 
Table 5. 
-Index numbers of prices to producers of farm products for Yakima, Wash, 
and Washington State, 1918-1&&4 1 
Crops 
Livestock and livestock products 
Wages of 
common 
lahor at 
Yakima 
June 
1913= 
1003 
Freight 
rates 
(;ivc rage 
of 
months) 
1913= 
100< 
Year 
Alfalfa 
hay, 
Dec. 15, 
1914= 
100 2 
Potatoes, 
Dec. 15, 
1913= 
100 
Wheat, 
Dec. 15, 
1913= 
100 
Hogs, 
Dec. 15, 
1913= 
100 
Sheep, 
Dec. 15, 
1913= 
100 
Butterfat 
Dec. 15, 
1913 = 
100 
Eggs, 
Dee. 15, 
1913= 
100 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1923 
1924 
100~ 
107 
131 
222 
238 
254 
192 
72 
178 
110 
169 
100 
95 
170 
148 
150 
300 
147 
153 
70 
117 
147 
100 
137 
111 
181 
256 
259 
303 
180 
115 
139 
115 
191 
100 
85 
71 
120 
207 
207 
196 
135 
101 
113 
100 
117 
100 
106 
117 
151 
236 
206 
177 
100 
89 
138 
134 
162 
100 
94 
89 
117 
133 
172 
192 
153 
131 
136 
144 
100 
105 
102 
112 
130 
165 
188 
148 
120 
112 
110 
122 
100 
96 
103 
109 
126 
145 
180 
213 
172 
145 
145 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
115 
127 
150 
158 
142 
142 
i Index numbers of crops, livestock, and eggs are compiled from office records of the Division of Crop 
and Livestock Estimates; butterfat figures are compiled from prices paid to producers by an important 
buyer of cream in the Yakima Valley. 
2 Data not available prior to 1914. 
3 United States Interior Department, Bureau of Reclamation. 
4 Compiled from data furnished by the Northern pacific Railway Co. 
