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BULLETIN 1351, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table IV a.— -Statistics of price and price determining factors of oats 
Year 
beginning 
July 1 
Chicago 
price of 
oats 1 
Change 
over 
preceding 
year 
Bureau 
of labor 
statistics 
index of 
farm 
products 2 
Change 
over 
preceding 
year 
Produc- 
tion oats 
in the 
United 
States 3 
Old 
stocks on 
farms 
Aug. 1, 
in the 
United 
States i 
United 
States 
visible 
supply 
of oats 
July 1* 
United 
States 
produc- 
tion of 
oats plus 
old stocks 
on farms 
plus 
visible 
supply 
Change 
over 
preceding 
year 
1895 
Cents 
20 
17 
23 
25 
23 
24 
40 
34 
38 
32 
31 
37 
50 
53 
44 
35 
50 
37 
41 
51 
45 
56 
77 
71 
88 
54 
39 
41 
Per cent 
58 
57 
61 
64 
67 
72 
78 
79 
79 
80 
80 
84 
86 
92 
100 
98 
97 
100 
102 
104 
114 
156 
204 
224 
224 
171 
128 
139 
Per cent 
Million 
bushels 
824 
780 
791 
843 
926 
914 
778 
1,053 
869 
1,009 
1,090 
1,036 
805 
851 
1,068 
1,186 
922 
1,418 
1,122 
1,141 
1,549 
1,252 
1,593 
1,538 
1,184 
1,496 
1,078 
1,215 
1,316 
Million 
bushels 
43 
119 
80 
51 
59 
64 
55 
32 
79 
46 
63 
78 
73 
41 
27 
67 
68 
35 
104 
62 
56 
114 
48 
81 
93 
55 
161 
75 
70 
Million 
bushels 
7 
9 
8 
6 
6 
7 
11 
2 
4 
4 
7 
6 
7 
4 
6 
. 4 
10 
4 
15 
4 
12 
10 
13 
18 
4 
34 
43 
Million 
bushels 
874 
908 
879 
900 
991 
985 
844 
1,087 
952 
1, 059 
1,160 
1,120 
885 
896 
1,101 
1,257 
1,000 
1,457 
1,241 
1,210 
1,609 
1,378 
1,651 
1,632 
1, 295 
1,555 
1,273 
1,333 
P(T cent 
1896... 
1897 
1898 
1899 
-15 
+35 
+9 
-8 
+4 
+67 
-15 
+12 
-16 
-3 
+19 
+35 
+6 
-17 
-20 
+43 
-26 
+11 
+24 
-12 
+24 
+38 
-8 
+24 
-39 
-28 
+5 
-2 
+7 
+5 
+5 
+7 
+8 
+1 

+1 

+5 
+2 
+7 
+9 
-2 
-1 
+3 
+2 
+2 
+10 
+37 
+31 
+10 

-24 
-25 
+9 
+4 
-3 
+2 
+10 
1900 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909... 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
1921 
1922 
1923 
-1 
-14 
+29 
-12 
+ 11 
+10 
-3 
-21 
+ 1 
+23 
+14 
-20 
+46 
-15 
-3 
+33 
-14 
+20 
-1 
-21 
+20 
-18 
+5 
1 Average of monthly prices of No. 2 oats July to following June. Monthly prices obtained by averaging 
weekly high and low prices as quoted in the Chicago Board of Trade Annual Reports. 
2 From 1913 to 1922 monthly index numbers, July to June, were averaged, to convert to a crop year basis. 
Previous to 1913 the annual index numbers for each two consecutive calendar years were averaged for the 
Julv to June crop year index. 
J U. S. Dept. of Agr. Yearbooks. 
« U. S. Dept. Agr., Weather, Crops and Markets, Aug. 11, 18, 1923. 
* U. S. Dept. Agr., Yearbooks, or Chicago Board of Trade Annual Reports; 
