WORLD'S POTATO CROP.

[From department of agriculture report.] During the five-year period 1909-1913 the world's potato crop averaged about 5.471,000,000 bushels annually, ranging between 4,842,000,000 bushels in 1911 and 5,873,000,000 bushels in 1912. Of the average yearly production during this period, a total of 2,692,000,000 bushels, or 49 per cent, was furnished by the ten countries named below. In 1917. these ten countries produced 2,734,150,000 bushels of potatoes, or 50 per cent of the average annual production during 1909-1913. Detailed figures for these countries for 1917, with comparative figures for 1916, are shown in the following table:

Country.

United States.

1917, bu. 442.536,000

79.892,000

321,165,000
55,115,000
36,923,000
89,858,000
27.733,000
64,558,000

36,376,000

1,580.000.000

WHEAT HARVEST CALENDAR. January-Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentine Republic.

February and March-Upper Egypt, India. April-Lower Egypt, India, Syria, Cyprus, Persia, Asia Minor, Mexico, Cuba.

May-Texas, Algeria, Central Asia, China, Japan, Morocco.

June-California, Oregon, Mississippi, Alabama, Georg.a, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas, Utah, Colorado, Missouri, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, south of France.

July-New England, New York, Pennsyl1916. bu. vania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, 286,953,000 Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, Nebraska, up63,297,000 per Canada, koumania, Bulgaria, Austria, 204,172,000 Hungary, south of Russia, Germany, Switzer54.277,000 land, south of England.

39,006,000 August-Central and northern Minnesota. 88,490.000 Dakotas, Manitoba, lower Canada, British_Co29.189.000 lumbia, Belgium. Holland, Great Britain, Den54.972,000 mark, Poland, central Russia.

18,000,000 882,000,000

Total .........2.734,156,000 1,720.356,000

*Figures for Germany for 1916 and 1917 are unofficial.

September and October-Scotland, Sweden,
Norway, north of Russia.

November-Peru, South Africa.
December-Burma, New South Wales.

1914.

Sheep-1918

.35,855.000

31.13

.48.900.000

1917.

1916.

1915.

1914.

.47.616.000

.48,625,000
.49.956.000

.49,719,000

11.82

4.02

The states having the largest number of farm animals of each of the above kinds Jan. 7.13 1. 1918, were: 5.17 Horses-Iowa, 1.583,000; Illinois, 1.467,000; 4.50 Texas, 1.212.000; Kansas, 1.142.000; Nebraska, 1,049,000; Missouri, 1,040.000: Minnesota. 944.000; Ohio, 892.000; Indiana, 837,000; North Dakota, 842.000; South Dakota, 811,000; Oklahoma, 737.000; Wisconsin, 708,000; Michigan, 680.000; New York, 597.000; Pennsylvania, 590,000. Mules Texas, 808,000; Missouri, 367,000; Georgia, 334.000; Mississippi, 307.000; Alabama, 289,000; Oklahoma, 276.000; Kansas, 280.000; Tennessee, 273,000; Arkansas, 263.000; Kentucky. 224,000; North Caro lina, 207,000; Illinois, 150,000.

8.40 9.87 10.40

Milch cows-Wisconsin, 1.785.000; New York,
1,524,000; Iowa, 1.405.000; Minnesota,
1.328,000; Texas, 1.128,000; Illinois, 1,057,-
000; Pennsylvania, 960,000; Kansas, 945,-
000: Ohio. 940.000; Missouri, 910,000;
Michigan, 874.000: Indiana, 713.000; Ne-
braska, 703.000; California, 597.000.
Cattle (other than milch cows)-Texas. 4.660,-
000; Iowa, 2.919.000; Nebraska, 2.803.000;
Kansas, 2,354.000; Missouri, 1,782.000
California. 1.701.000; Minnesota, 1,540.000
South Dakota, 1.438.000; Oklahoma, 1.404,-
000; Wisconsin, 1.394.000: Illinois, 1.314.-
000; Colorado, 1.272.000: New Mexico,
1.179.000: Arizona, 1.037.000; New York,
1,005,000.

AVERAGE VALUE PER HEAD OF FARM ANIMALS.

1918. 1917. 1916. 1915. 1914. 1900-9. 1890-9. 1880-9. 1870-9. $104.28 $102.89 $101.60 $103.33 $109.32 $71.99 $48.24 $67.78 $62.07 127.74 118.15 113.83 112.36

INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.

Figures are chiefly for calendar year 1916; statistics incomplete on account of war. Wheat.

1900..

5,009,595,006 3.191,941.763 63.7

1.817.653.243

36.3

1901.

1902.

1903.

1904.

1905.

1906.

1907.

1908.

1909.

1910.

1911..

1912.

1913.

1914.

6.111.684,020 61.8

1915.

6.907.187,000 64.1

5,302,120.039 3.385.179.114 63.8
5.594.645,072 3.578,416.465 64.0 2.016.228.607 36.0
5.887,170.104 3.771.653,816 64.1 2,115,516,288 35.9
6.121,778.001 3,981,675,866 65.0
6.273,997,362 4.012.652.758 64.0
6.764.210.423 4,263,134,353 63.0
7,487.988.622 4.761.111.839 63.6
7.890.625,522 5,098.292,549 64.6
8.558,161.223 5,487,161,223 64.1
9.037,390,744 5.486,373,550 60.7
8,819,174.959 5.562.058,150 63.1
9.342.790.149 5.842.220.449 62.5
9,849.512,511 6.132,758.962 62.3
9.894.960.531
10,775,490.000

1,916.940.925 36.2

2.140.102.135 35.0

2,261,344,604 36.0

2,501,076.070 37.0

2.726,876.783 36.4

2.792.332.973 35.4

3,071,000,000 35.9 3,551,017.194 39.3 3,257.116.809 36.9 3,500.569.700 37.5 3.716.753,549 37.7

3.783.276.511 38.2

3.868.304.000 35.9

4.338,442,000 32.3

70.0

5,833,386,599 30.0

⚫Census. †Percentage of whole.

ESTIMATED VALUE PER ACRE OF FARM LAND.

All farm lands.

-Plow lands, 1917.

Without improvements. With improvements. Av. for Av. for Av. for
1917. 1916. 1912. 1917. 1916. 1912. poor. good. all.
$23.00 $17.00 $15.00 $41.00 $37.00 $36.00 $22.00 $47.00 $34.00
20.00 18.00 15.00 40.00 38.00 34.00 24.00 50.00 37.00
26.00 23.00 15.00 44.00 40.00 34.00 28.00 60.00 42.00
38.00 36.00 26.00 76.00 75.00 66.00 36.00
52.00 50.00 39.00 85.00 100.00
36.00 33.00 28.00 62.00 62.00
46.00 42.00 36.00 72.00 67.00
60.00 55.00 56.00 105.00 100.00
35.00
49.50 41.00
50.00 43.00 37.00
40.00

93.00

64.00

60.00 42.00

85.00

62.00

55.00 36.00

72.00

53.00

65.00 34.00 74.00

55.00

72.00 65.00

93.00 46.00
53.00 36.00

92.00 69.00

30.00 27.00 21.00

42.50

39.00

30.00 23.00 17.00

South Carolina..

25.00 21.00

20.00

35.00

32.00

28.00

26.00 18.00

Ohio

Indiana

Illinois

Michigan

Wisconsin

25.00 23.00 21.00 55.00
56.00
71.00 67.00
95.50 91.00
81.00 78.00 64.00 103.00 98.00
115.00 106.00 96.00 140.00 130.00 119.00 85.00 148.00 120.00
31.00
45.00 42.00
70.00 65.00 54.00 35.00 72.00 55.00
68.00 62.00 43.00 95.00 90.00 63.00 53.50 99.50 80.00
60.00 54.00 41.00 83.00 75.00 56.00 50.00 81.00 68.00
128.00 125.00 83.00 156.00 153.00 106.00104.00 163.00 140.00
65.00
37.00 69.00
39.00 37.00

52.00

45.00 20.00 37.00

27.50

Georgia..
Florida

80.00 65.00 45.00 105.00
65.00 55.00 31.00 90.00
55.00 49.00 45.00 71.00
50.00 100.00 102.00 100.00 50.00 110.00
46.00
70.00 200.00 180.00 107.00 55.00 150.00 110.00

82.00 70.00 75.00 44.00 93.00

90.00

80.00 45.00 90.00

70.00

85.00

70.00 38.00

80.00

60.00

64.00 66.00 37.00

77.00

58.00

80.00

70.00

CROPS OF 1918.

[Department of agriculture estimate, Oct. 1.]

2.717,775,000 Hay, wild, tons..

555,725.000 All hay. tons..

363,195,000 Cotton, bales

918,920,000 Apples, bu.

1,535,297,000 Peaches, bu.

14.699.000

86,254,000

11,818,000

198,389,000

40,185,000

Barley, bu.

Rye, bu.

Buckwheat, bu.

Potatoes, bu.

Sweet potatoes, bu

Flax seed, bu.
Rice, bu.
Tobacco, lbs.

Hay, tame, tons.

236,505,000 Pears, bu.

10,189,000

76,687,000 Cranberries, brls.

371,800

19,473,000 Sugar beets, tons.

6,458,000

391.279.000 Sorghum sirup, gals..

29,973.000

85.473,000 Beans, dry, bu.

17,802,000

15.606.000 Kafirs, bu.

77,650.000

41.918.000 Peanuts, bu.

71,460.000

1,265,362.000 Broom corn, tons.
71,555,000 Clover seed, bu.

BOMB EXPLOSION IN FEDERAL BUILDING, CHICAGO.

Four persons were killed and thirty or more injured on the afternoon of Sept. 4. 1918, by the explosion of a bomb in the Adams street entrance of the federal building in Chicago. Those killed were Edwin R. Kolkow, an old post office employe; William H. Wheeler, a mail carrier; Joseph B. Ladd, a bluejacket acting as messenger for the navy intelligence bureau, and Miss Ella Miehlke, who was entering the building to mail a letter. The explosion caused considerable damage to that part of the structure closest to where the bomb had been placed, and all

52.100 1,383,000

the window glass in the vicinity was shat-
tered, but the main part of the building re-
intact and business continued as
mained
usual.

On the theory that the bomb had been
placed with the intention of blowing up the
federal court in which the Industrial Workers
of the World. had been convicted and sen-
tenced a short time before, the police and
authorities arrested nine men
government
connected with the organization named, in-
Wilson, secretary to Wil-
cluding John W.
liam D. Haywood.