STATISTICS. 



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Where the World's Wheat Crop Grows. — An average wheat crop of 

 the world, taking- the five-year period, 1899-1903 as a basis, is approxi- 

 mately 2,927,000,000 bushels. This makes the total wheat crop of the 

 world 227,000,000 bushels more than the corn crop for the same period. 

 Of this grand total of the wheat crop, the United States produced an 

 average annual yield of 625,000,000 bushels, or approximately 21.5 per 

 cent. Missouri for the same five years, taking the estimates of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, produced approximately 43/2 per cent 

 of the total crop of the United States, or about one per cent of the total 

 crop of the world. 



The following table gives the average annual wheat crop of the 

 leading wheat producing countries of the world, together with time of 

 harvesting, for the five-year period 1899-1903: 



Country 



United States 



All Russia 



France 



British India 



Italy 



Hungaria 



Germany 



Spain 



All South America 



All Africa 



Australasia 



Time of harvest. 



Average annual 

 yield bushels". 



June, July 



\ Northern, Octobei 

 ( Southern, July.... 



July 



February 



June . . .' 



July 



August 



June 



Nov., Dec. Jan ... 



j North, Mar.. Ma\ 

 ( South, November. 



January 



625,000,000 

 541,497,000 

 338,975,000 

 249,085,000 

 151,380.000 

 147,853,0C0 

 129,653,000 

 105, 606, Of 

 105,594,000 

 45,915,000 

 45,459.000 



Missouri's Wheat Belt. — Most of the counties bordering on the Mis- 

 sissippi and Missouri rivers grow considerable areas of wheat. A group 

 of counties including Jasper, Newton, Greene, Dade, Barry and Christian, 

 all in the extreme southwestern part of the State, grow a large acreage 

 of wheat. Johnson county also has a large acreage. Lawrence county, 

 in the southwest, grows a larger acreage of wheat per square miles than 

 any county in the State, and St. Charles county, in the eastern part of 

 the State, is second in the acreage per square mile. 



OATS. 



Only a few counties in the State grow more oats than are used at 

 home. As a rule oats are not a paying crop in Missouri on account of 

 the damage caused by rust. The crop is raised to get in the necessary 

 rotation and because oats are excellent for balancing up other rations. 



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