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takou as entirely correct. The prices on which the following calcu- 

 lations are made are assumed to be wholesale prices, or such as the 

 farmers generally get for their produce on the general market. Since 

 it is generally known that prices fluctuate in different localities on 

 account of local conditions, etc., it was thought best to put the rates 

 rather low in order to include the greatest number of cases. It will be 

 an easy matter, however, for any one to make calculations based on 

 the prevailing prices of commodities in his locality. 



MILL FEEDS 



We made no inquiry as to the amount of mill feeds shipped into 

 the State in 1909, but in order to show the large amounts of impor- 

 tations of food and feed supplies which could be ascertained from 

 carefully kept records, we append the following approximate tonnage 

 of mill feeds shipped into the State in 1910, as shown by the records 

 kept in the department : 



TQAfS 80,500 



VALUE @ $17 A TON $1,368,000 



WHEAT AND FLOUR 



We found one hundred and seven of our replies that contained 

 flour in their estimates and twenty-five that contained wheat. The 

 amount and value are given below: 



BARRELS OF FLOUR 565,164 



VALUE @ $6 A BARREL $3,990,984 



BUSHELS OF WHEAT 205,828 



VALUE @ $1.15 A BUSHEL $ 236,702.20 



TOTAL VALUE $4,227,686.20 



North Carolina has 31,091,200 acres of land surface, the larger 

 portion of which is arable. We grew wheat on 570,000 acres in 

 1909, which produced in the aggregate 5,415,000 bushels. 



Careful statisticians have estimated that each man, woman and 

 child in the United States consumes an average of about 5 1-2 bushels 

 of wheat a year. If these statistics be true for North Carolina 

 we consume in a year, basing our calculation on a population of 

 2,200,000, about 12,100,000 bushels of wheat. This forces us to 

 import 6,685,000 bushels to supply the demand of home consump- 

 tion. 



If we should increase our yields from 9.5 to 25 bushels per acre 

 we would supply our home demand and have 2,150,000 bushels to 

 sell each year. This increase in yield is by no means impossible. In- 

 dividual yields running over 25 bushels to the acre have been reported 

 from many places in the State. In one case, by turning in red clover 



