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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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1,399,923 share tenants, 128,466 share-cash tenants and 113,993 not reporting.

The estimated gross value at farm of all crops and animal products was, in 1918, 22,480,000,000 dollars; in 1919, 24,982,000,000 dollars; and in 1920 (preliminary estimate^, 22 ? 000,000, 000 dollars.

The areas and produce of the principal cereal crops for three years are shown in the subjoined tables.

191S 1919 1930

Crops

1,000 Acres

1000 Bush. Bushels J**

1,000

Acr-r*

1,000 Battels

Bash, per Acre

1,000 A. res

1,000 Bushels

Bash, per Acre

Corn Wl ( it Oats

'x,50x,666' 24-0 100,072 2,868,50* 28-«

308 934,265 12"«

> 1,638,124 34 231,754 29-4

I'M, 601 3,282.367

787,128.

43.823 1.526,0*5

MM

214,215 5,034 528 — 206,116 5,545.' —

The chief wheat-growing States (1920) are (vield in thousands of bushels) :

Kansas, yielding 137,056; North Dakota, " 68, 400 ; Nebraska, 60,480;

Oklahoma, 46,240 ; Illinois, 40,670 ; Washington, 37,982 ; Missouri, 32,721 ;

Minnesota, 29.116 ; Ohio, 28,698 ; 8outh Dakota, 26,282 ; Pennsylvania,

I ; Idaho, 23,600 ; Indiana, 28,540 : Oregon, 22,900 ; Colorado* 22, 821.

Other crops in 1919 and 1920 were :—

IM

Crops

Rye

Barley. Buckwheat Flaxseed Rice (rough). Potatoes Sweet Potatoes

1,000 Acres.

To.'

1,092 3,062

1.042

1,000 BMbak

SB, M 161.34.%

Bushels per Acre

12-5

20-6 4-9

39-2 90-0

1012

1,000 Acres

5,043

729

1,337 3,929

1,085

1,000

B.sr.el*

M IM

13.7?..

!-:•..■>

53,710 UK <H

112,368

Bushels per Acre

13-7 x5D 18-9

«••:

40-2 109-6

103-6

The area on which tame hay was grown in 1920 was 57,915,000 acres; the crop weighed 91,193,000 tons, and was valued at 1,613,896,000 dollars. The area on which wild hay was grown in 1920 was 15,266.000 acres ; the crop weighed 17,040,000 tons, and was valued at 195,266,000 dollars.

In 1920 the United States rice (rough) crop was as follows : —

Stats*

Ana

Production

States

Area

Production

Acres

Bushels

Acres

Bushels

North Carolina

400

10,000

3,000

93.000

South Carolina

4,100

- 000

Louisiana. .

700,000

25,900,000

Georgia. . Florida. .

1,100

29,000

Texas. ..

281,000

, 9,554,000

8,000

72,000

A: ESI MM. .

181,400

S, 889,000

Missouri. .

500

25,000

California. .

162,000

9,720,000

Alabama. .

500

16,000

Total.

. 1.337.000

1 53.n0.000