Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — Field Crops of Canada. [ARTICLE]

Field Crops of Canada.

The census and statistics office has issued its preliminary estimate of the total value of the field crops of Canada for the past year, as compared with the finally revised estimates of 1916 and 1915. The estimated values for 1917 represent the prices received by farmers and are calculated from current market quotations. According to this preliminary estimate, the total value of all field crops for 1917 is placed at $1,089,687,000, as compared with $886,494,900 in 1916 and $825,370,600 in 1915. The items making up this total are as follows: Wheat $451,874,000; oats, $236,142,000; hay, clover, and alfalfa, $145,561,600; potatoes, $81,355,000; other grain crops, $134,006,700, and root and fodder crops, $40,974,700. i In the year 1916 the crops were as follows: Wheat, $344,096,400; oats, $210,957,500; hay, clover and alfalfa, $171,613,900; potatoes, $50,982,300; other grain crops, $84,679,800, and other root and fodder crops, $84,165,000.