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SORGHUM. 



Tlie above states give an aggregate yield of corn equal to 70 per 

 cent, and of wheat equal to 72 per cent, of the total yield of the United 

 States. 



The aggregate value of the corn is equal to 55.7 per cent, and of 

 the wheat to 64.7 per cent, of the entire crops of these two cereals in 

 the United States. 



From the above data, we find that the gain or loss in bushels of 

 corn or wheat, and in value, calculated at the average prices for these 

 crops in these several states, is as follows : 



In nearly all of these states there is a loss of both corn and wheat, 

 amounting in the aggregate to a. net loss of 60,994,852 bushels of corn, 

 and 19,251,715 bushels of wheat, Avithavalue for the corn of 818,547, - 

 147, and for the wheat of $16,734,975, or a total loss for both of 

 $35,282,122. 



This deficiency and annual loss, it will be understood, represents the 

 diminished yield of corn and wheat of these states, through failme on 

 the ])art of the soil, from whatever cause or causes, to maintain the 

 same acreage yield which it had averaged from 1862 to 1870, in- 

 clusive. 



Despite the very great inequalities of productiveness in the several 

 sections of the country, which are doubtless largely due to inherent 



