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Bureau of Crop Estimates at Washington.^^ These data, 

 reproduced below in their original tabular form, provide 

 us with the estimated percentage which each important 

 variety of wheat contributed to the crop of wheat in Min- 

 nesota and the two Dakotas in each of the years 1914, 1916 

 and 1917, and similar figures for Montana in 1917. For 

 1915, however, the estimates are lacking except for Durum. 

 Velvet Chaff is another name for Preston. 



Percentages of the Total Crop for the Chief Wheat Varieties 



MINNE- 

 SOTA 

 1917 



1916 



1915 



1914 



NORTH 

 DAKOTA 



1917 



1916 



1915 



1914 



SOUTH 

 DAKOTA 



1917 



1916 



1915 



1914 



MON- 

 TANA 

 1917 



Other 



Per 



cent. 



1.0 



0.3 



98.1 



4.0 



1.0 

 0.5 



85.5 

 4.0 



.0 



0.2 



77.3 

 1.0 



1.0 



31 Monthly Crop Report for August, 1918, Bureau of Crop Esti- 

 mates, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, August, 1918, 

 p. 95. 



