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Area planted to corn.—The preceding table* 
gives the number of acres of corn planted in 
the United States in 1893, number of bushels 
of grain grown, and its value. The corn crop 
for 1894 was the smallest, with one exception, 
harvested in the past fifteen years, being almost 
390,000,000 bushels less than the average for 
1890-1894, and over 490,000,000 bushels less than 
the average crop of the ten years 1850-1889. 
For this reason the 1893 yield of the several 
States is given, instead of the 1894: 
The average rate of yield, 22.5 bushels per 
acre, is the lowest for ten years, with the ex- 
ception of the years 1886, 1857 and 1890. It is 
only a little lower, however, than that of 1585, 
which was 22.7, or two-tenths of a bushel 
greater. The average value per bushel is 56.5 
cents, which is 2.9 cents, or about 7 per cent 
lower than the value of 1892. This value is 
6.1 cents less than the average of the ten years 
1870-1879, 2.8 cents less than that of the de- 
cade 1880-1889, and 6.6 cents below the average 
value of the three years 1890-1892. In the ten 
years preceding only four crops, viz., those of 
1884 (85.7), 1885 (382.8), 1888 (34.1), and 1889 
(28.3), have had a lower average value. 
Magnitude of corn crop.—The significance 
of the corn crop of the United States, as cover- 
* From December, 1893, report of of the Statistician of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
