Yearbook of agriculture. 1923

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924
 

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Halaman 229 - THE cost of maintaining the production of an operating oil company is one of the most important, as well as one of the most difficult to estimate, of the various items which go to make up the total cost of producing oil.
Halaman 60 - ... of the legislative assembly at its thirty-third session, are hereby so amended and modified as not to require any inspection of sheep coming into, or going out of, the territory, as to their sanitary condition when such sheep have been inspected by an inspector or an assistant inspector of the bureau of animal industry of the department of agriculture, in accordance with the act of congress entitled "An Act to enable the secretary of agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread...
Halaman 224 - Sugar above number sixteen Dutch standard in colour when imported or purchased in bond in Canada by a recognized sugar refiner, for refining purposes only, under regulations by the Minister of Customs and Excise...
Halaman 28 - Intermediate credit banks will accept the receipt of any warehouse licensed and bonded under the Federal Warehouse Act." The formation of co-operative growers...
Halaman 301 - Class 1 , value of 30 cents a pound or less, 10 cents a pound; value over 30 cents, 12 cents a pound. Class 2, value of 30 cents a pound or less, 10 cents a pound; value over 30 cents, 12 cents a pound. Class 3, value of 12 cents a pound or less, 2) cents a pound: value over 12 cents, 5 cents a pound.
Halaman 475 - ... the extra expenditure is proportionately much greater than the increase of yield, so. that the yield per unit of labor is much smaller than in the United States.
Halaman 98 - ... part of which is fed to livestock. In five years ending with 1922 farmers sold on the average 711,000,000 bushels of wheat and 544,000,000 bushels of corn. Moreover, a large part of the corn sold is from one farmer to another for livestock feed. Many wheat farmers produce other commodities than wheat, but the prices of many of these, such as oats, barley, and rye. are below pre-war prices. The specialized wheat farmer, as a rule, does not produce, or produces only for home use, the commodities...
Halaman 121 - ... of the leniency of creditors. According to this survey, the losses of farms and farm property were relatively most numerous in the Great Plains region. Applying the results obtained from these reports to the 1920 census figures for owners and tenants, it was estimated that the percentage of farmers who since 1920 had lost farms or other property ranged from 8.9 per cent of all farmers in Kansas to 28.3 per cent in Montana. The seriousness of the situation is further reflected in the records of...
Halaman 462 - ... lower than it was in 1903-07, not only of cotton but also of wheat, oats, and hay. The composite curve for nine principal crops, shown by the heavy black line, also indicates a slightly smaller average yield in 1918-22 than in 1903-07 ; though about 16 per cent above the average yield for 1883-87. The composite curve was made by weighting the yield of each crop by its relative acreage in the period 1908-12.
Halaman 425 - In addition to the 365,000,000 acres of land in harvested crops in 1919, it is estimated that there are also about 600,000,000 acres physically capable of being utilized for crops some time in the future. This includes practically all the land that is not too rough, rocky, sandy, cold, or dry, or that is not now employed for uses other than agriculture and forests. Consequently it includes some land that it will not be economical to reclaim for crops even when we reach our maximum population.

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