PRODUCTION OF WHEAT 



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ground in ten States, Minnesota alone grinding 103 raillioii 

 bushels. 



187. Consumption of Wheat per Capita. — The census' esti- 

 mates the domestic consumption of flour to be equal to 5.31 

 bushels of wheat per capita in 1900, as compared with 5.29 

 bushels in 1890. As it takes 4.77 bushels of wheat to make a 

 barrel of flour, this is i.i barrels of flour per inhabitant. About 

 1.4 bushels per acre, or about eleven per cent of the normal crop, 

 is estimated to be required for seed. This makes the total 

 requirement aside from its use as food for domestic animals 

 and such secondary uses as breakfast foods, 6.29 bushels per 

 inhabitant, or about 475 million bushels for the United States 

 in 1900. 



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A wheat field producing forty-eight bushels of wheat per acre on one of the farms of 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



According to the Bureau of Statistics of the United States 

 Treasury Department^ the total amount of wheat used for all 

 purposes for the five years ending 1902 was 390 million 

 bushels, as compared with 300 million during the preceding five 

 years. 



For the five years ending 1902, the production of wheat in 

 Europe has been 4.1 bushels per capita. The net import of 

 wheat has been something less than one bushel per capita 



1 Tw-elfth Census of the United States, 1900. Vol. VI. Agr. Part II, p. 32. 



S U. S. Treas. Dept., Bu. of Stat. Statistical Abst, 1902, p. 345. 



