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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTKY

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1910

1911

1912

Crops

1,000 Acres

1,000 Bushels

Bush, per Acre

1,000 Acres

1,000 Bushels

Bush, per Acre

1,000 Acres

1,000 Bushels

Bush, per Acre

Corn

Wheat. Oats

104,035 45,681 37,548

187,264

2,886,260

635,121

1,186,341

27-7 13-9 31-6

105,825 49,543 37,763

2,531,488 621,338 922,298

23-9 12-5 24-4

107,083 45,814 37,917

3,124,746

730,267

1,418,337

29-2 15-9 37-4

Total.

4,707,722

— [193,131

4,075,124

190,814

5,273,350

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The chief wheat-growing States (1912) are (yield in thousands of Imshels) : Kansas, yielding 92,290; North Dakota, 143,820; Minnesota, 67,038; Ne- braska, 55,052; Indiana, 10,080; Ohio, 9,760; South Dakota, 52,185 Illinois, 9,819 ; Missouri, 23,750; Pennsylvania, 22,320; California, 6,290 Washington, 53,728; Oklahoma, 20,096; Oregon, 21,018; Texas, 11,025 Michigan, 7,000; Maryland, 8,985; Kentucky, 6,860 ; Tennessee, 7,077.

Other crops in 1911 and 1912 were : —

1911

1912

Crops

Acres

Bushels

Bushels per Acre

Acres

Bushels

Bushels per Acre

Rye. ..

Barley. Buckwheat. Flaxseed Rice (rough). Potatoes

2,127 000 7,627,000

833,000 2,757,000

696,300 3,619,000

33,119,000 160,240,000 ]7,549,0!0 19,370,000 22,934,000 i 292,737,000 1

15-6 21-0 21-1 7-0 32-9 80 9

2,117,000 7,530,000

841,000 2,851,000

722,800 3,711,000

35,664,000 223,824,000 19,249,000 28,073.000 25,054,000 420,647,000

16-8 29-7 22-9 9-8 34-7 113-4

The area on which hay was grown in 1912 was 49,530,000 acres; the crop weighed 72,691,000 tons, and was valued at 856,695,000 dollars. In 1912 the United States rice (rough) crop was as follows : —

States

Area

Yield

States

Area

Yield

North Carolina South Carolina Georgia. . Florida. . Alabama. .

Acres 1 400 8,000 \ 9('0 600 1 300 ! 2,200

Bushels

10,000 200,000 27,000 15,000 9,000 77,000

Louisiana. . . Texas .... Arkansas. . . California. ..

! Total. .

Acres 352,600 265,600

90,800 1,400

Bushels

11,812,000

9,429,000

3,405,000

■ 70,000

Mississippi.

722,800

25,054,000

The output of cane sugar in 1910-11 amounted to 696,640,000 pounds. The beet sugar production in 1910-11 amounted to 500,172 short tons.

The cotton production in 1911 (as returned by ginners) amounted to 16,250,276 bales including linters (equivalent 500 pounds), grown in the following States: Texas, 4,447,648 bales; Georgia, 2,845,799 ; Mississippi

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