PRODUCTION OF WHEAT 



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of the territory reporting over twenty-one bushels per acre was 

 west of Denver. The greater part of that in which the yield is 

 from fourteen to twenty-one bushels per acre is found north of 

 the Potomac and east of the Missouri. 



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The relative increase in population and in production of wheat in the United States 



according to reports of the census. 



In 1899, thirty-five farms out of every hundred in the United 

 States produced wheat. A little more than two million farms 

 are reported by the census to have produced 659 million bushels 

 of wheat from an area of fifty -three million acres. 



183. Progress of Wheat Production. — Owing to the possession 

 of large areas of fresh 

 lands, easily brought 

 into cultivation, to the 

 reduced cost of produc- 

 tion and handling 

 through the introduc- 

 tion of labor - saving 

 machinery and the ex- 

 tension of railway con- 

 struction, the progress 

 of wheat production 

 has been rapid. In fifty years' the production of wheat has in- 

 creased six and one-half times. 



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Map showing the production of wheat in th« 

 United States in 1900. 



