diana, 12 5 Maryland, 12; Delaware, 11.5; Texas, 11.5; Minnesota, 

 11 ; Iowa, 10.8 ; Nebraska, 10.3 ; West Virginia, 10. The lowest aver- 

 age is 5 bushels in Soutli Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. 



For averages of these and other crops, reference is made to the tables 

 which follow. 



PEICES OF FARM PRODUCTS. 



Price of corn. — A material reduction in the home prices of corn, from 

 the quotations of last year, is reported from all the Northern and West- 

 ern States. The product of the New England States, while bearing a 

 higher price than that received from other sections, is somewhat de- 

 pressed in value by the present abundance of western corn. The home 

 markets of Pennsylvania, creating an active local demand, have helped 

 to keep up the local prices. In most of the Southern States, in which 

 less is grown than is required for consumption, rates are fully sustained. 

 In Louisiana there is a great diflereuce between the quotations of the 

 river parishes and those in the interior, where the supply is mainly from 

 the home product. In Texas the severe drought, reducing the estimated 

 yield of 1870 from 2G bushels i^er acre to 19, has had a large influence 

 in placing the average price at $1 11 instead of $1 06 per bushel. 

 Arkansas has felt the effect of western abundance on the lines of in- 

 land navigation and of a fair yield on an enlarged area at home, reduc- 

 ing the average from 80 to 66 cents. Tennessee, more dej^endent upon 

 home supplies, increases last years average of 47 cents to 51 cents, 

 while showing a yield reduced from 25.8 to 23 bushels per acre. The 

 yield i3er acre in West Virginia and Kentucky is less than in 1870, and 

 the reduction in inice is from 64 to 63 cents in the former State and 

 from 48 to 47 cents in the latter. In Michigan, with a yield reduced 

 from 37 bushels to 32, the price has advanced from 55 to 59 cents. In 

 all of the remaining Western States the average of reported i)rices is 

 less than last year, and the yield per acre is greater except in Indiana, 

 where the acreage was increased four per cent., and in Ohio and Wis- 

 consin, in which the difference is very slight. The yield in the latter 

 State, estimated at 38 bushels for the crop of 1870, is placed between 37 

 and 38 bushels by the assessors' returns of that year. The figures for 

 these States are as follows : 



The lowest rate reached is that of Iowa, dropping from 34 to 23 cents, 

 with a yield of 42.p instead of 32 bushels per acre; that of Nebraska 

 falls from 36 to 25 cents ; and of Kansas from 58 to 20 cents, the esti- 

 mated yield having advanced from 28 bushels (a very small crop for 

 Kansas) to 40 bushels this year. 



The following table gives the estimated home prices of corn in Jan- 

 nary of each year since 1866 : 



